-A single cigarette produces nearly 18 minutes of smoke. While the average smoker only inhales only 35 seconds of that smoke.

 

-Tobacco use is the cause of almost 30 per cent of all fatal cancers in Canada and a major cause of lung cancer.

 

-Lung Cancer is one of the most preventable cancers.

 

-Tobacco kills about 45,000 Canadians a year. That’s more than the total number of deaths from AIDS, car accidents, suicide, murder, fires and accidental poisonings combined.

 

-There are over 4,000 dangerous chemicals in cigarettes, cigars and pipes smoke . Many of these chemicals are cancer-causing (carcinogen).

 

-Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada estimate that every year, second-hand smoke kills from 1100 - 7800 Canadians

 

-Every 30 seconds, someone, somewhere in the world dies from Lung Cancer.

 

-65 Canadians who have never smoked are being told they have cancer in their lungs.

 

-More young women are now diagnosed with, and die from, lung cancer than young men.

 

-In 2006, an estimated 22,700 Canadians will be diagnosed with lung cancer.

 

-In 2006, an estimated 19,300 Canadians will die from lung cancer

 

-On average, 437 Canadians will be diagnosed with lung cancer every week.

 

-On average, 371 Canadians will die of lung cancer every week.

 

-One in 11 Canadian men is expected to develop lung cancer during their lifetime.

 

-One in 12 Canadian men is expected to die from lung cancer.

 

-One in 17 Canadian women is expected to develop lung cancer during their lifetime

 

-One in 20 Canadian women is expected to die of lung cancer.

 

-Lung cancer incidence and mortality rates continue to climb among Canadian women.

 

-Lung cancer, the most preventable of all cancers, remains the leading cause of cancer death for both Canadian men and women.

 

-The total number of lung cancer cases (Canadian men and women combined) is greater than the number of either prostate or breast cancer cases.

 

-Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death for both Canadian men and women.

 

-Lung cancer incidence and mortality rates continue to be higher in Atlantic Canada and Quebec and lowest in British Columbia.

 

-Lung cancer is by far the leading cause of premature death due to cancer in Canada.

 

-Smoking is responsible for 28% of potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to cancer in Canada.

 

-Relative survival for lung cancer tends to decline with increasing age.

 

-Research is ongoing to evaluate screening for lung and prostate cancer, which together account for nearly 24,000 deaths in Canada annually.

 

-About 1,300 Canadian children develop cancer each year.

 

-Relative survival ratios were lowest for pancreatic, esophageal and lung cancer.

 

-Cancer related mortality rates have dropped 20% in Canadian women since 1979 except for Lung Cancer. This is surprising considering lung cancer is the most preventable form.

 

-10 to 15 per cent of new lung cancer cases diagnosed in Canada are in people who have never smoked.

 

-Non-smokers who reside with a smoker have a 24 per cent risk increase for lung cancer compared with other non-smokers.

 

-70 per cent of diagnosed cases of lung cancer are in former smokers who said they quit 10 or 20 years ago.

 

[Statistics provided by www.cancer.ca]