Smoking and health: lung cancer, the malignant tumor that causes most deaths in the EU
Lung cancer causes hundreds of thousands of death within the European Union. The highest rate is found in Hungary, while the lowest is in Portugal, according to a recent Eurostat report.
Tobacco consumption is one of the highest risk factors for health that might be avoided. Many forms of cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory illnesses are associated with smoking, according to the cited source.
Out of the 4,9 million deaths registered in the European Union in 2014, a quarter (1,3 million) were caused by cancer. 272,000 of those were caused by lung cancer, including trachea and bronchial cancer.
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This makes lung cancer responsible for 21% of all cancer-related deaths in the EU.
In this matter, Portugal turned out to have the most positive results: 15%. The country is joined in the top 10 by Latvia, Slovakia, Sweden, Lithuania, Finland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia and Cyprus.
At the opposite end, with an average over the European 21%, are Great Britain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland. The highest percentage was found in Hungary – 27%.
On a EU level, it is the men that are more affected than women – 185,000 compared to 87,000.
There are around 1,1 billion smokers around the world, which means that one in five people aged over 15 consumes tobacco, according to a study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and National Cancer Institute – NCI) in the SUA
In Europe, 24% of people aged over 15 are smokers, according to a survey published by Eurostat at the end of last year. Out of these, 19,2% are daily smokers, and 4,7% are occasional smokers.
The frontrunner of European countries with most smokers is Bulgaria, where 34,7% of the population smokes. The country is followed by Greece (32,6%), Austria (30%), Slovakia (29,6%) and Latvia (29,5%). On the other hand, the countries with fewest smokers are Sweden (16,7%), Great Britain (17,2%) and Finland (19,3%), followed by Portugal (20%) and Luxembourg (20,4%).
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