Smoke Can Kill You
A cigarette contains 4 thousand chemicals are toxic or harmful to the body. Substances that trigger lung cancer, brain, and liver.
Who does not know cigarettes. Historically, tobacco has been smoked by a native American continent is the Maya, Aztecs, and the Indians since 1000 years before Christ. Then Columbus introduced tobacco to England and the tobacco trade began in the 1500s, especially the tobacco of Virginia and still exist till this moment.
Tobacco industry began to dim since 1964, because the American Association of Surgeons issued a statement that cigarettes cause lung cancer. Cigarette advertising on television began showing forbidden since 1965 in England and 1970 in the United States. Health warnings on cigarette packages began to emerge since 1970, and is further enhanced with a warning through pictures.
Despite starting to fade, in fact as many as 4 million people died from smoking and is estimated at 2020, the victim died of smoke reaches 10 million people. Unfortunately 70 percent of the victims are in developing countries. At least it was revealed in a seminar titled “Smoking and Lung Cancer” at the Multi Purpose Room 2nd floor, Dharmais Cancer Hospital, Jalan Let Jen S Parman, Slipi, West Jakarta, some time ago.
Internationally there are 1.26 billion smokers in developing countries and about 800 million smokers. Meanwhile, Indonesia ranked fifth largest in number of smokers after China, America, Japan, and Russia. “In a cigarette there are 4 thousand types of chemicals, including 400 types of toxic or poisonous substances and 40 types of carcinogens are toxic substances that cause cancer,” said Staff Medical Functional Dharmais Cancer Hospital Dr. Soeratman Eddy.
Lung cancer, according to Dr. Eddy, is a disease that can not be detected early. This then makes the lung cancer patients, newly arrived to the hospital is always with advanced-stage cancer or four. “Patients with lung cancer just going to the doctor when the vomiting of blood or shortness and feel pain when you breathe,” said Eddy.
Pain or vomiting of blood that experienced by lung cancer caused by respiratory vessels in the lung cancer driven by a lump or tumor in the lung. “That is what then makes breathing difficult patient. If the late follow-up, the patient’s lungs will be inundated by the fluid that is carried by cancer cells and it can result in death,” he said.
When severe, lung cancer became the main cause of death and associated with 85-95 percent of the smoking habit. High risk group of lung cancer are men and women aged 40 years and over, smokers and people who are in environments contaminated by pollutants or waste plant.
If cell lung cancer has been attacked, Dr. Eddy said, cancer cells can easily spread into three main parts of the body, the brain and liver. “Cancer cells will carry the blood and lymph nodes throughout the body, most often get is the brain and liver,” added the doctor who falls directly to the school for antismoking education.
Besides the three main body parts prone to cancer after lung cancer, other body parts are also vulnerable, according to Dr. Eddy, the kidneys and bones. “Bone cancer causes brittle bones can even cause paralysis due to cancer suppress spinal cord or break a bone,” said Dr. Eddy.
For patients suffering from lung cancer is detected, the hospital will first perform four types of diagnosis. First, through the perceived grievances of patients, physical examination, chest X-ray, CT scan and patalogi thoracic anatomy. “The sooner the cancer is known, the easier it prevented the spread of cancer cells,” he said again.
Pain due to lung cancer, was also felt by Willy. Middle-aged man was admitted lung cancer and now has been declared free by the doctor.
