DEMERITS OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY WHICH CAUSES LUNG CANCER IN WOMEN

With the growing awareness about deleterious effects of active and passive smoking to the society, smoking has become a less socially accepted activity. This in turn has aided a lot of patients suffering from lung cancer to get exposed to lesser amount of second hand smoke present in the atmosphere. In fact, some workplaces have strictly banned smoking in their premises, whereas the rest have imposed highly rigorous and stern rules to smoke inside their campus. In addition to the enforcement of laws, there are myriad of offices that don’t even hire employees who are smokers owing to the fact that once they are affected by lung cancers will fall ill and their work will remain unfinished. Permission for smoking increases the construction and maintenance cost of the buildings for the provision of ventilations and stuffs related to that. Nowadays, several landlords and house owners are not even willing to rent out houses for smokers as they don’t want a lung cancer patient living in their house that can possibly affect the life of others living in that apartment.

It is highly unlikely that two substances having almost similar chemical characteristics and perilous elements in them is found to have dissimilar effects on an individual’s health condition, where everything except the quantity of exposure is same. One such believable example is the active and passive smoking. It is a world known fact that inhaling of the carcinogen dominating gas obtained from smoking of cigarettes is the major cause for a nearly deadly disease like lung cancer. The tobacco smoke emitted while burning such tobacco products can be categorized into two types as mainstream and side stream. Scientist defines the former as the smoke exhaled by a smoker during each puff, whereas the latter is the smoke rendered between several puffs. Only based on the duration of exposure to these smokes their impacts on lungs can be differentiated, considering the fact that the source of these smokes is one and the same. However, it was scientifically proven that side stream smoke was also found to have detrimental effect on lungs, as they were responsible for rapid dissemination of carcinogens in the body.

It is totally unfair that an individual who inhales the smoke emitted from a burnt cigarette of an actual smoker can enhance their chances of getting affected by lung cancer. This is known as second hand or passive smoking and the bitter truth is that they are more hazardous to the lungs than actual direct smoking. A recent survey disclosed a shocking fact that the number of people affected by passive smoking exceeds the number affected by direct or active smoking. Children, infants and pregnant women are the major groups of people who have become victims to a virulent disease like lung cancer. The reason behind this group being their easy target is the fact that their immune system is relatively weak and more prone to attack when compared with that of others. Unfortunately, the second hand smoke entering the non-smoker lungs is a mixture of several gases with approximately 4000 chemical compounds present in them and out of that nearly 120 compounds are toxic and carcinogenic. They combine with the blood stream carrying oxygen, resulting in the formation of anonymous compounds causing heart aches, nasal irritations, sun stokes and frequent vomiting.

It is highly unfortunate that those who actually smoke and individuals who are affected by second hand smoke have the same risk of getting affected by lung cancer. However, the researchers have been conducting a series of experiments to find out which of the two has a serious effect on lungs when compared with the other. The two major reasons for lung cancer can be direct smoking and inhaling the smoke coming from a burnt tobacco product. It was really shocking to observe the results which went on to show that inhaling smoke coming as a result of passive smoking has a severe impact on lungs when compared with direct smoking. This is mainly because of the addition of several toxic gases present in the atmosphere due to myriad hazardous polluting sources with the carcinogens from cigarettes. This mixture of gases is stronger in terms of damaging the lungs than a simple cigarette smoke. In a nutshell, despite the fact that one is stronger than the other in rupturing the inner walls of lungs, it is high time an individual quits smoking for their well being as well as that of others.

In a busy and time consuming world, there exists a high possibility that they can be subjected to one disease or the other. One of the most popular diseases existing presently is lung cancer and the pathogen responsible for almost deadly disease is smoking of tobacco based products. Lung cancer is actually a growth and dissemination of unwanted and virulent carcinogenic cancer cells in either one or both the lungs, resulting in the formation of a tumor. When an individual starts smoking cigarettes, the carcinogenic substances present in the smoke coming from thee burnt tobacco enters the windpipe and reaches lungs forming the tumor. Unfortunately, when an individual commences smoking, the malignant smoke coming from them not only affects them, but also others surrounding them. This is termed as second hand smoking or passive smoking, a condition where the neighbors are also subjected to high chances of getting affected by lung cancer. This type of second hand smoking has two varieties namely main stream and side stream, which is nothing but the smokes exhaled by the smoker after every puff and smokes ejected between different puffs.