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New York - Italian researchers have found that smoking cigarettes increases your chances of developing colorectal cancer. It also increases your odds of dying from colorectal cancer.

Smoking cigarettes does a lot of damage to your body. Organs that have direct contact with carcinogens from smoking are more likely to become affected by cancer. These organs include: lungs, throat, larynx, oropharynx, and the upper digestive tract. Organs that have indirect exposure to carcinogen from smoking include: pancreas, bladder, cervix, kidneys, rectum and colon. These organs also have an increased chance of becoming affected by cancer.

There are a billion smokers in the world. This is an astonishing statistic. Cigarettes have a warning on them. This warning says that smoking can causes cancer and birth defects. People just disregard this. Nicotine is very addictive and many smokers want to quit smoking but cannot kick the habit.

If you do smoke cigarettes, you should try and lessen the number of cigarettes that you smoke on a daily basis. This will help you to lower the number of carcinogens that your body is exposed to on a daily basis.

In order to lessen your chances of developing cancer, you should not smoke cigarettes. Your body needs to be healthy and free of carcinogens. There are nicotine patches and support groups for smokers who wish to quit smoking. They can be very helpful at trying to end nicotine addiction.

Being healthy is important to boosting your immune system so that you can fight off cancerous cells. Hopefully, the number of smokers across the world will decrease so that the cancer rates can decline.