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Now study proves it - bidi smoking causes cancer
Nowsday, many people have health problem because of eating unbeneficial food, air-pollution, water pollution, etc. Smoking is one cause lead to having health problem such as a cancer. It also leads to being other diseases. There are the first study of the country to use people groups has proven that smoking bidi (tobacco wrapped in the leaf of the tendu plant) increases a cancer.
P. Jayalekshmi of the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), who led the study on bidi-induced lung, oral, laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer, said lung cancer risk among former bidi smokers have higher risk to be lung cancer than anyone who never smoked bidis. 70,000 men who are 30-84 years old in Kollam district show bidi is the most smoking product leads to being lung and oral cancer. In addition, too much using bidis increased the risk of the gum and mouth cancer, Jayalekshmi said. From a total of 65,829 men, found that bidi smokers had increase in lung cancer 3.9 %, when compared people who never smoked bidis.
Regional Cancer Centre show 821 and 863 males registered as lung and oral cancer patients during 2011-12. 392 patients registered for care of Hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancers during the same period. 1.6 million men in Kerala smoke bidis and smoking is more widespread among lower levels of education and family income. Bidi smokers in Kerala spend money nearly Rs. 140 per month. The study, providing encouragement to start to give up smoking bidi get lower risk of lung cancer lower than smokers in this present smokers. The risk of lung cancer are decreased in people who had stopped bidi smoking for years or longer when compared with bidi smokers in this time.
To sum up, according to this essay, smoking is increased the risk of being cancer. Furthermore, the risk of cancer was found to increase if people who have smoked for a long time bidi as habit. They are risk to be lung, oral, laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal cancer higher than who never smoke bidi. On contrary, there are found that the risk of lung cancer in people group has stopped smoking bidi for 10 years or more are decreased. In my opinion, our health problem will be decreased if we eat only beneficial food and drinks, exercise 30 minutes per a day, and stop smoking. We will present one proverb about taking care of health that “An apple a day keep the doctor away .”
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Now study proves it - bidi smoking causes
cancer
Thiruvananthapuram, March 21: The country's
first such study, using cohort groups, has proven conclusively that smoking
bidi (tobacco wrapped in the leaf of the tendu plant) increases the propensity
for cancer.
P. Jayalekshmi of the Regional Cancer
Centre (RCC) here, who led the study on bidi-induced lung, oral, laryngeal and
hypopharyngeal cancer, said lung cancer risk among former bidi smokers was
higher than in those who never smoked bidis.
Separate studie on the impact of bidi
smoking on lung and oral cancers, and cancers of larynx and hypopharynx in
close to 70,000 men between the age group of 30-84 in Karunagappally in Kollam
district shows that bidi is among the most harmful smoking products.
"The risk of cancer affecting the cheek
(buccal) and lips (labial) showed a nearly four-fold increase in the cohort
study covering 66,277 men.
"Excessive use of bidis significantly
increased the risk associated with cancer of the gum and mouth,"
Jayalekshmi said.
The mainstream smoke of bidi contains a
much higher concentration of carcinogenic hydrocarbons. Bidi smokers also are
found to be taking five puffs per minute, compared to two puffs by cigarette
smokers in the same time, the study showed.
The cohort study on bidi and lung cancer,
covering a total of 65,829 men, found that bidi smokers had a 3.9-fold increase
in lung cancer incidence, when compared to those who never smoked bidis.
The study showed that tongue cancer risk
increased significantly among men who smoked bidis for 30 years or longer, and
among men who started bidi smoking at 18 years or younger.
Yet another cohort study conducted on
69,943 men, again in the 30-84 age group in Karunagappally, shows a significant
relationship between bidi smoking and cancers affecting the larynx and
hypopharynx.
The results show that those with a history
of bidi smoking for more than 30 years have a higher risk of laryngeal cancers.
Smokers who puff more than 15 bidis a day are at increased risk of
hypopharyngeal cancer.
Figures with Regional Cancer Centre here
show that 821 and 863 males registered as lung and oral cancer patients,
respectively, during 2011-12 alone.
Another 392 patients registered for care of
hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancers during the same period.
As many as 1.6 million males in Kerala
smoke bidis and the Karunagappally studies have also reiterated the common
knowledge that bidi smoking is more widespread among those with lower levels of
education and family income.
Bidi smokers in Kerala spend nearly Rs. 140
monthly on this habit.
The study, however, provides encouragement
to those seeking to kick the bidi habit, the risk of lung cancer is lower in
former smokers than current smokers, it showed.
The lung cancer risk was found to decrease
significantly among those who had stopped bidi smoking for 10 years or longer,
when compared to current bidi smokers. (IANS
Now study proves
it - bidi smoking causes cancer
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Hypopharyngeal cancer (n) |
/ˌhaɪpoʊfəˈrɪndʒəlˈkænsər/ |
โรคมะเร็งคอหอย a term used for tumors of a subside of the upper aerodigestive tract, and like most other subside designations Ex: Hypopharyngeal Cancer is a disease in which malignant cells grow in the hypopharynx |
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Larynx (n)
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/ˈlærɪŋks/
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กล่องเสียง the area at the top of the throat that contains the vocal cords Ex: Maria has a health problem about Larynx. |
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Encouragement (n)
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/ɪnˈkərɪdʒmənt/
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การให้กำลังใจ the act of encouraging someone to do something; something that encourages someone Ex: He needs all the support and encouragement he can get. |
Wrap (v)
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/ræp/
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พัน
ห่อ to cover something or someone in material, for example in order to protect it/them wrap A (up) in B Ex: I wrapped the baby (up) in a blanket. |
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Reiterate(v)
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/riˈɪt̮əˌreɪt/
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เน้นย้ำ to repeat something that you have already said, especially to emphasize it Ex: Let me reiterate that we are fully committed to this policy. |
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Cohort(n)
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/ˈkoʊhɔrt/
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หมู่คน a member of a group of people who support another person Ex: Robinson and his cohorts were soon ejected from the meeting. |
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