Smoking and poverty - the cause of cancer in developing countries

Smoking and poverty the cause of cancer in developing countries would be. Experts predict an increase in the incidence rate more than twice that amount to about 27 million in 2050, according to Reuters. Cancer. Second only to heart disease and the number of AIDS deaths in the world The longer people live, the more they have bad habits - such as smoking, so that the number of cancer cases is rising. Studies have shown that this year 7.6 million people die of cancer, 5 million of them - representatives of developing countries, said Dr. Nancy Davidson (Nancy Davidson) Hophinsa Johns (Johns Hopkins University). Statistics are consistent with the hypothesis that cancer is a disease of the rich nations. The study found that by 2050 the number of sick people about 27 million. Of these, 5.4 million cases in developed countries and 6.7 million in developing countries. Cancer is caused by several factors: genes, diet, lack of exercise and rare exposure to chemicals. But the reason number 1 - is smoking! Deaths are caused by smoking, rising from 4.9 million in 2000 to 10,000,000 in 2020. Of which 70 percent occur in developing countries.