[HealthyTribes] Cancer and Tobacco Use

[Leeb Jordana A]

This month's CDC Vital Signs report focuses on cancers that are linked to tobacco use. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths, causing at least 12 types of cancer throughout the body. The report also highlights how states and communities can use comprehensive, evidence-based interventions to reduce tobacco use and cancer by creating tobacco-free environments, increasing access to cancer screening and appropriate care and helping tobacco users quit. These strategies have been shown to work and have avoided about 1.3 million tobacco-related cancer deaths since 1990. But people are still dying from these cancers.

Key points in the Vital Signs report include:


  *   Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths.
  *   Each year, 660,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with, and 343,000 people die of, cancers related to tobacco use.
  *   We have made progress: about 1.3 million cases of tobacco-related cancer have been avoided since 1990. But not all population groups have benefitted equally.
  *   People are still dying from tobacco-related cancers, and some groups of people have a higher burden of tobacco-related cancers than others.
  *   States, territories, and tribes can help by supporting comprehensive cancer control programs, protecting non-smokers from secondhand tobacco smoke in indoor public areas, and improving access to cessation programs for those who want to quit.

http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/cancerandtobacco/index.html

Jordana Leeb
Community Programs Liaison
HPCDP, Oregon Health Authority
Jordana.a.leeb at state.or.us<mailto:Jordana.a.leeb at state.or.us>
971-673-1041

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