Diary 399: Smoking, lung cancer & stroke

The Sun, a local daily, reported the following on 4 October 2011.

According to the American Lung Association, smoking is directly responsible for approximately 90% of lung cancer deaths.

“In the US, smokers have twice the risk of having a stroke, regardless of lung cancer,” said Andrew Russsman, a stroke specialist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

American Heart Association said in a report that strokes accounted for 1 out of 18 deaths in the US in 2007.