Tobacco use is one of the biggest preventable health risks in the European Union. According to statistics proposed by Touteleurope.eu we learn that there were more than 273 deaths from lung cancer in the European Union in 000.
LUNG CANCER IS THE MOST KILLING CANCER IN THE EUROPEAN UNION!
Of the 5,2 million deaths reported in the EU in 2015, a quarter (1,3 million) were due to cancer. Of these deaths, 273 were caused by cancer of the lung, trachea or bronchus. Lung cancer remains the deadliest cancer in the EU, accounting for more than a fifth (400%) of cancer deaths. Men are twice as affected as women: 21 men died of lung cancer in 184, compared to 600 women.
In France, the share of daily smokers dropped significantly in the space of a year: it went from 29,4% in 2016 to 26,9% in 2017. But the situation is still worrying at European level. Across the EU Member States as a whole, the share of lung cancer among all fatal cancers was highest in Hungary (27%), followed by Greece, Denmark, Poland and Countries -Bas (24% each), Belgium (23%) and the United Kingdom (22%). At the opposite end of the scale, the lowest shares were recorded in Portugal and Latvia (15% each), Lithuania, Sweden and Slovakia (16% each).
