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Smoking associated with increased number of lung cancer deaths

New Delhi: November has been declared as lung cancer awareness month to educate the people who are at a higher risk of the disease. Though several reasons are associated with lung cancer, the harmful effects of smoking are linked to about 80 per cent deaths.

Lung cancer is the most common one, which has affected more than 2.09 million people worldwide till now. If people quit smoking at an early age and start a high consumption of fibre and yoghurt in their daily routine, they can reduce the risk of lung cancer by 33 per cent… (ET Healthworld – ANI, November 13, 2019)