Role of tobacco use in cancer causation

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The role of tobacco use in cancer causation: Cigarette smoking increases the risk of at least 12 cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia, and cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, pancreas, uterine cervix, kidney, bladder, stomach, colorectum, and liver. Smoking may also increase the risk of fatal prostate cancer and a rare type of ovarian cancer. • In 2022, there continued to be a wide variation in smoking prevalence by racial/ethnic group, ranging from 4% among Asian adults to 20% among American Indian/Alaska Native adults. • Cigarette smoking prevalence remains high among those with low levels of education; for example, among adults 25 years of age and older, 23% of those with no high school diploma and 31% of those with a GED (General Educational Development) smoked in 2022, compared to 3% of those with graduate degrees.

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