Lung Cancer Statistics

Lung cancer remains a deadly disease and most cases are caused by cigarette smoking.

Using data from IARC ( International Agency for research on Cancer) in Lyon, France, Hans Rosling shows the dramatic differences between men and women, between countries and between different decades in the same country. They are due to variations in tobacco smoking in the world. Most people in low income countries cannot afford many cigarettes, and hence have low risk for lung cancer. Middle income countries have the highest frequency of tobacco smoking, and hence of lung cancer. In most high income countries health education and regulations are having effects, tobacco consumption is reduced and so the risk of lung cancer in men. But unfortunately smoking and lung cancer is still increasing in women in many countries. Iceland is the first country to reach equal smoking frequencies in men and women and now also have the same risk for lung cancer in both sexes.

In spite of growing concerns for environmental toxins, tobacco smoking remains the most important avoidable cancer risk in the world.

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[TheRadicalLiberal]

Poorer people don't live as long as richer people. So they die of something else before they have a chance to die of lung cancer.

[OYaudio]

This kind of statistic tends to shift blame on smokers while society hypocritically condone cigarettes. It is true governments spend no money for last thirty years in research on treatment. That's why lung cancer death rate is number one of all cancers in the world. The sufferers fall victims to such promoted stigma. What about non-smokers? I am sure most breast cancers patients drink alcohol, does it mean alcohol causes breast cancer, similar one track mind logic! Please be humane!

[lifehouseisthebest]

I compared 3 countries with eachother(greece, south afrikca, south korea ) according to smokers who died because of lung cancer with the help of gapminder and the result was strange because even though there are more smoker in Greece than the other 2 countries, the number of dead people due to lung cancer is much fewer than the other 2 countries..

[lifehouseisthebest]

Jag jämförde 3 länder (Greklan, Sydkorea och Sydafrika) med hjälp av gapminder enlig dem som röker och dör på grund av lungcancer.. Och jag har fått en konstig resultat. Trots att man röker mycket mer i Grekland än de två länderna dör mindre människor på grund av lungcancer än de två länderna...Dessutom när jag jämför gapminders resulaterna med olika källor passar ibland inte de varandra.. så jag tycker att alla statiskerna är en stor lögn.

[Nieman100]

No Cure for LC? I'm 9.5 years out of LC surgery and still going to work everyday. :-)

I think most people don't know that smokers die about 14 years before non-smokers.

More women die of lung cancer in US than of breast cancer. Nobody seems to get that.....