Tobacco Disease Pictures

This gallery contains photographs and illustrations of tobacco-related lung cancers, including x-rays and drawings of various forms of lung cancers.? Cigarette smoking is responsible for most cases of lung cancer.

See what a undamaged lungs and alveoli look like in this illustration. The lungs are the organs responsible for respiration, or breathing, and are located in the chest cavity. The alveoli are small sacs within the lungs where oxygen is exchanged.

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This is what bronchial cancer looks like in a chest x-ray.

In this x-ray, you can see lung cancer in the right lung of the patient.

This illustration represents large cell carcinoma, which is any lung tumor that cannot be classified.

This is an illustration of small cell carcinoma, also called oat cell carcinoma, which can create its own hormones that alter body chemistry.

Here, you'll see a drawing of squamous cell carcinoma. It commonly starts in the bronchi and may not spread as rapidly as other lung cancers.

This chest X-ray shows adenocarcinoma of the lung.

This illustration shows how adenocarcinoma develops on the outer boundaries of the lungs.

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Tobacco in the News

Bill Gates in China Push Against Secondhand Smoke -- Associated Press
BEIJING -- Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates was in China on Saturday to raise awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke in the country with the world's largest smoking population.

Women Who Smoke are at Tenfold Risk for PAD -- CNN Health
Women who currently smoke or have a history of smoking are at a greater risk for developing peripheral artery disease (PAD), and stopping smoking produces a dramatic reduction in PAD risk, but doesn't completely eliminate it. The findings are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday, and were presented last year at the European Society of Cardiology meeting.

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