WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Tobacco remains the single biggest cause of US cancer diagnoses, responsible for up to 40 percent of cases despite a drop in adults who smoke, according the report published by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Thursday.
"It [tobacco] causes more than lung cancer," the report said. "Based on current evidence, it can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, voice box, esophagus, stomach, kidney, pancreas, liver, bladder, cervix, colon and rectum, and a type of leukemia (acute myeloid leukemia)."
During each year, from 2009 to 2013, some 660,000 people were diagnosed with cancer that may have been linked to smoking and other uses of tobacco, the report noted. About 343,000 people died each year as a result of oncological diseases.
A separate CDC report explained that cigarette use by adults declined from 45.1 million smokers, or 20.9 percent of the population, to 36.5 million, or 15.1 percent, in 2015.
