site.btaEurostat: Smoking-Induced Lung Cancer Kills 3,500 Bulgarians Annually

105 HEALTH - TOBACCO SMOKING - STATISTICS

Eurostat:
Smoking-Induced Lung Cancer
Kills 3,500 Bulgarians Annually


Sofia, May 31 (BTA) - Some 3,500 Bulgarians died in 2014 of lung cancer caused by use of tobacco products, Eurostat reported in connection with the World No Tobacco Day, May 31.

The men who died in Bulgaria as a result of smoking-induced lung cancer outnumber the women in a four to one ratio (2,800 and 700, respectively). Out of 108,000-plus deaths in this country in 2014, malignant neoplasms were the second most significant cause (over 18,000 cases) after cardiovascular diseases (more than 72,000 fatalities). In 2015, 3,800 of the 110,000 deaths were caused by respiratory system diseases and above all by lung cancer due to tobacco use.

In terms of the share of lung cancer among all fatal cancers, Bulgaria (19 per cent) ranks after Hungary (27 per cent) and Belgium, Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands and Poland (24 per cent each) and ahead of Finland (18 per cent), Lithuania (17 per cent), Latvia, Slovakia and Sweden (16 per cent each) and Portugal (15 per cent). LI/LG