Does Smoking Cause Breast Cancer? (8-page version)
There is some controversy over whether smoking is linked to the development of breast cancer. Most studies have concluded that there is no link. A more compelling case can be made that exposure to secondhand smoke does increase the risk of breast cancer.
What is undisputed is that smoking does cause lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death. Lung cancer will kill more than 160,000 Americans in 2008, and in 90 percent of those cases, smoking was responsible for the disease. The Great
American Smoke Out is being held on November 20, 2008 the third Thursday of the month. If you are one of the more than 45 million Americans who still smoke, we encourage you to quit. The American Cancer Society offers plenty of helpful resources and information to help you quit smoking at its web site, HYPERLINK "http://www.cancer.org" www.cancer.org.
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