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Prepared for Ify A. | Delivered October 12, 2020
Lung Health
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Goals
To inform a discussion on the positioning of a lung health product to a target audience by obtaining interesting facts and figures about the correlation between former smokers and the development of lung cancer or other lung health issues.
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Early Findings
Facts and Figures
More than
7,300
non-smokers in the United States die of lung cancer each year caused by secondhand smoke.
Measurements of cotinine show that exposure to secondhand smoke among children who live in homes without any indoor smokers is
45%
higher in children living in multi-unit housing, such as apartments and condos, than those living in single-family homes, despite neither of the homes having indoor smokers.
There are more former smokers diagnosed with smoking-related lung cancer than current smokers each year, with the risk of contracting the disease remaining high, up to
25 years
after quitting.
About
40%
of diagnosed lung cancer cases involve people who had quit smoking more than
15 years
before the diagnosis, while
20%
of women who develop lung cancer have never been smokers.
The risk of developing lung cancer for former smokers decreases with the number of years compared to non-smokers as follows:
5 years after quitting:
12.12
times higher than that of a never-smoker
5–10 years after quitting:
11.77
times
10–15 years after quitting:
7.81
times
15–25 years after quitting:
5.88
times
Over 25 years since quitting:
3.85
times
It is of interest that even after
25 years
of quitting, former smokers are almost four times
(3.85)
more likely to develop lung cancer compared to never-smokers.
However, current smokers who quit after their lung cancer diagnosis can heal and respond to treatment, reducing their mortality from some cancers by up to
40%.
Smoking can cause cancer
almost anywhere in the body
, not just the lungs, including the blood (acute myeloid leukemia), bladder, cervix, colon and rectum, esophagus, kidney and renal pelvis, larynx, liver, lungs, trachea, and bronchus, mouth and throat, pancreas, and stomach.
Summary
In our preliminary research, we have provided some facts and figures related to how being a former smoker correlates to lung cancer, including secondhand smokers.
We can continue the research to provide insights covering both lung cancer and other lung health issues. Below is our recommended research path.
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