{"id":7428,"date":"2018-05-30T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hancockregionalhospital.org\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:29:21","slug":"why-are-you-still-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/zh\/2018\/05\/why-are-you-still-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4f60\u5df2\u7d93\u8d70\u4e86\u5f88\u9577\u4e00\u6bb5\u8def......\u90a3\u70ba\u4ec0\u9ebc\u9084\u5728\u62bd\u83f8\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"
Smoking has long been a symbol of cool in our society. Greta Garbo, Carol Lombardo, Audrey Hepburn all made it look so very glamorous. In 1968, Phillip Morris launched \u201cVirginia Slims\u201d to a generation of independence-seeking women with the marketing campaign, \u201cYou\u2019ve come a long way, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, that was about the same time the Surgeon General\u2019s warning that \u201csmoking is dangerous to your health\u201d was also on every pack of cigarettes.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that warning still goes unheeded. Just this month, a new study by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute published in the New England Journal of Medicine points to some troubling new statistics: While overall incidences of lung cancer have decreased, the decrease in men has been substantially steeper for men than women. And, while the risk of developing lung cancer drops significantly after one quits, the risk of adenocarcinoma drops more slowly than other cancers… and women are more likely to develop that type of lung cancer than men.<\/p>\n

The American Cancer Society estimates that 234,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and 154,050 will die of it. Approximately 80% of those cases are directly related to smoking.<\/p>\n

According to the US Drug Administration, smoking continues to have a profound impact on the health and well-being of women and their families in the United States.<\/p>\n