Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States for both men and women. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) 
 
 Lung cancer is the most preventable form of cancer death in the world. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) 
 
 Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) are Lung cancer estimates for 2014 (Source:) are 
 
 New cases of lung cancer: 224,210 
 
 Males: 116,000 
 
 Females: 108,210 
 
 Deaths from lung cancer: 159,260 
 
 Males: 86,930 
 
 Females: 72,330 
 
 Women smokers are 25.7 times more likely than women who never smoked to develop lung cancer. For men smokers, it’s 25 times the risk of men who never smoked. (Source: US Surgeon General Report 2014) 
 
 Besides lung cancer, tobacco use also increases the risk for cancers of the mouth, lips, nose and sinuses, larynx (voice box), pharynx (throat), esophagus (swallowing tube), stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, uterus, cervix, colon/rectum, ovary (mucinous), and acute myeloid leukemia. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) 
 
 In the United States, tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths; this equals about 480,000 early deaths each year. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014; and US Surgeon General Report 2014) 
 
 Tobacco use accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths, causing 87% of lung cancer deaths in men, and 70% of lung cancer deaths in women. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) 
 
 Cigarette use has declined dramatically since the release of the first US Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1964. Even so, about 20.5% of men and 15.8% of women still smoked cigarettes in 2012, with about 78% of these people smoking daily. (Source: CDC, Current cigarette smoking among adults – United States, 2005–2012, 2014) 
 
 Cigarette smoking among adults age 18 and older who smoked 30 cigarettes or more a day went down significantly from 2005 to 2012 – from 12.6% to 7.0%. But still, more than 42 million American adults smoke cigarettes. (Source: CDC, Current cigarette smoking among adults – United States, 2005–2012, 2014) 
 
 Cigars contain many of the same carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) found in cigarettes. Between 2000 and 2011, sales of small cigars had decreased by 65%, while large cigar sales increased 233%. (Note: the definition of large cigar changed in 2009, so that much smaller cigars are legally defined as “large cigars.”) Cigar smoking causes cancers of the lung, mouth, throat, larynx (voice box), esophagus (swallowing tube), and probably the pancreas. (Source: CDC, Consumption of Cigarettes and Combustible Tobacco – United States, 2000–2011, 2012; Office of the Inspector General, Dept. of the Treasury Audit Report, December 21, 2011) 
 
 Little cigars are about the same size and shape as cigarettes and come in packs of 20, but unlike cigarettes, they can be candy or fruit flavored. In most states, they cost much less than cigarettes, making them far more affordable – especially to youth. A 2012 CDC survey found that more high school boys had smoked cigars (16.7%) than smoked cigarettes (16.3%) in the past 30 days. About 8% of high school girls had smoked a cigar in the past month. (Sources: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014; CDC, Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students – United States, 2011 and 2012, 2013) 
 
 Among first-time tobacco users, nearly 2.7 million smoked cigars, while 2.3 million smoked cigarettes (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2013) 
 
 In 1997, nearly half (48%) of male high school students and more than one-third (36%) of female students reported using some form of tobacco – cigarettes, cigars, or smokeless tobacco – in the past month. This went down to 23% for male students and 18% for female students in 2012, and included electronic cigarettes, snus (a type of smokeless tobacco), dissolvable tobacco, and other types that weren’t even around in 1997 – along with cigars, cigarettes, and older types of tobacco. (Sources: Cancer Facts & Figures 2010; CDC, Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students – United States, 2011 and 2012, 2013) 
 
 Each year, about 3,400 non-smoking adults die of lung cancer as a result of breathing secondhand smoke. Each year secondhand smoke also causes about 42,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are not current smokers. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) 
 
 Among adults age 18 and older, about 20% of men and 3% of women have ever used smokeless tobacco. Nationwide, about 11% of US male high school students and about 2% of female high school students were using chewing tobacco, snuff, or dip in 2012. (Sources: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014) 
 
 Smokeless tobacco products are a major source of cancer-causing nitrosamines and a known cause of human cancer. They increase the risk of developing cancer of the mouth and throat, esophagus (swallowing tube), and pancreas. Smokeless tobacco kills fewer people than smoking, but using any form of tobacco harms health and can cause death. (Source: Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Facts and Figures 2010) ||||| A woman takes a cigarette break in downtown Chicago. New research shows that nearly 10% of long-term cancer survivors are smokers, despite higher risks of recurrences and other health problems. (Photo: 2006 photo by Julio Cortez, AP) 
 
 Nearly one in 10 long-term cancer survivors play with fire by continuing to smoke, a new study shows. 
 
 Smoking rates are especially high among those who had cancers strongly linked to smoking, such as lung and bladder cancer, say researchers who questioned nearly 3,000 survivors nine years after diagnosis. The results are published Wednesday in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 
 
 The study suggests "just how difficult it is to quit," even in the face of dire health consequences, including cancer recurrence, says lead author Lee Westmaas, an American Cancer Society researcher. 
 
 The researchers assume almost all of the smokers had smoked before their cancers, Westmaas says. They estimate that one-third of the people who were smokers when diagnosed with cancer quit, while two-thirds continued. 
 
 The overall smoking rate among cancer survivors was 9.3% — about half the rate found among all U.S. adults. Bladder and lung cancer survivors had rates of 17.2% and 14.9% respectively. Lower rates were found in survivors of melanoma (7.6%) and colorectal cancer (6.8%). 
 
 Those who smoked tended to smoke heavily: 83% smoked daily, inhaling an average of nearly 15 cigarettes a day. Smoking was more common among women than men and it was linked with low education and income. It also was more common among those who had experienced a cancer recurrence than those who had not. 
 
 "I was surprised by the numbers being so high," says Roy Herbst, chief of medical oncology at Yale University. Herbst was not involved in the study but chairs a committee on tobacco and cancer for the American Association for Cancer Research, which publishes the journal in which the study appears. 
 
 Smoking raises the risk of cancer recurrence but also makes some cancer therapies less effective and can impair healing after surgery, Herbst says. 
 
 He says there are smoking cessation programs tailored to cancer patients at many major hospitals, but "clearly we need to do better." 
 
 Counseling, medication and other approaches can help people with cancer or a history of cancer quit, but not enough people may know about or have access to them, Westmaas says. 
 
 In the study, 47% of cancer survivors said they were planning to quit, another 43% said they were "not sure," and 10% said they had no plans to quit. 
 
 "It seems like a lot of them do want to quit," Westmaas says. "But we think that the level of addiction they have and the lack of knowledge about available treatments is another issue." 
 
 Help for anyone who wants to quit smoking is available from state "quit lines" at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) and from other telephone and text counseling services listed at smokefree.gov. The cancer society also has tips at cancer.org. 
 
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– It's been well documented how smoking wreaks havoc on your body, with tobacco use upping the risk for a variety of cancers—lung, bladder, esophagus, larynx, pancreas, and more—and causing almost one in five deaths in the US and 30% of all cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. Yet a new study finds that nearly one in 10 people who've beaten cancer continue to light up—either because their addiction is too strong or perhaps because they don't know enough about treatment plans that could help them quit, researchers theorize. Almost 3,000 cancer survivors who had made it nine years past their original diagnosis were surveyed for the study, published today in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. The heaviest smoking rates were found in people who had cancers "strongly linked to smoking," USA Today reports: While the smoking rate among cancer survivors overall was 9.3%—still half that of the general population—people who had fought bladder and lung cancer still puffed away at the more alarming rates of 17.2% and 14.9%, respectively. And those survivors who do smoke go big, with 83% of them plowing through an average of 15 cigarettes daily—and 10% saying they're not going to quit. (Thanks in part to smoking, cancer cases are expected to jump 50% by 2030.)