More than 3.8 million Lung cancer deaths were avoided in the US during the period 1970-2022, due to the significant reduction in smoking resulting from tobacco control. This was found by researchers from the American Cancer Society and their research was published in “CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians”.

The researchers analyzed information using the mortality data of the National Health Statistics Center for the period 1970-2022.

The results of the study showed that during this period they were prevented 3.856.240 Deaths From lung cancer (2,246,610 in men and 1,609,630 in women) and more than 76 million people of life were won, with averaging 19.8 life -winning life -winning death.

The number of deaths from lung cancer preoccupied 51.4% of estimated reductions to total deaths From cancer and was significantly larger in men (60.1%) than in women (42.7%).

However, “Despite these findings, lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and morbidity and mortality from other cancers or diseases attributed to smoking remain high,” notes the Farchad IslamScientific Director of Research on Cancer Research in the American Cancer Society and Head of Study.

He stresses that “We need a stronger commitment to local, state and federal level to help further smoking and significantly increase the progress of smoking -related mortality. It is also important that smoking control programs are designed to address groups with a higher risk of smoking, such as people with a lower socio -economic level, to help save even more lives. “.

In this direction, as an example of the element that the prevalence of smoking and mortality rates from lung cancer to people with high school diploma or lower educational level are five times higher compared to people with a college degree.