Does smoking cause other types of cancer besides lung/mouth/esophagus cancers?

Question

Can it cause breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc?

Answer 1

A series of authoritative reports by the U.S. Public Health Service and other international scientific organizations has conclusively documented a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and cancer of at least eight major sites (Shopland et al., 1991). These reports have uniformly identified smoking as a major cause of cancers of the lung, larynx, oral cavity, and esophagus--that is, cigarette smoking is responsible for a majority of the cases and deaths from cancer of these sites. These reports have also demonstrated that smoking substantially elevates the death rates for cancers of the bladder, kidney, and pancreas in both men and women, and, possibly, cervical cancer in women. A number of published reports have suggested an association between smoking and other cancers, including cancer of the stomach, liver, prostate, colon, and rectum.

Answer 2

Smoking causes free radicals to enter the body. This causes free radical damage to red blood cells and tissues. This sets the stage for cancer. Cigarette smokers are at higher risk of almost all types of cancer, especially but not limited to stomach cancer and throat cancer as well as lung and mouth cancers. Even skin cancer has a better chance of developing in smoker.

Answer 3

l have known people who have never smoke in their life time and get cancer. l have known people who never smoke or was around smokers and got cancer. So smoking is a risk and a person should stop. But there are other factors that causes cancer too

Answer 4

smoking can cause many more cancers than just lung cancer. a previous poster was incorrect- smoking is in fact a risk factor for bladder cancer.

Answer 5

I think Dr. JJ misunderstood what the previous poster wrote. That person was just saying that pretty much every bladder cancer diagnosis is in a person that smokes.

Answer 6

Smoking can increase your risk for other types of cancers.

Answer 7

YES
Smoking is a contributing factors to ALL cancers
cigarettes contain over 4,000 chemicals, so it makes sense it can cause ALL cancers

Answer 8

When is the human race going to learn, if we pollute our bodies, our physical health will suffer.
And we pollute our bodies all the time. Often unaware of all those little things that can create problems.
The strange thing is that smokers do it willingly and regularly, knowing they are doing it !!!! Then they scoff or are offended when a non-smoker objects to sharing their polluted environs. Go Figure!

Answer 9

Rare to see a bladder cancer in a non-smoker.

Answer 10

It's also the cause of many other things, like COPD, heart disease, strokes...not just cancer.