Many people don’t realize that smoking tobacco is the single most important known risk factor for bladder cancer, according to the
National Institutes for Health. The effects of cigarette smoke toxins entering your body have received a lot of attention, but far too little attention has been given to how those toxins make their way out.
“These carcinogens leave the body through the urinary tract,” says urologist
Andrew Stephenson, MD, Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Urologic Oncology. “When urine is in contact with the bladder for many hours at a time, the bladder can be exposed to very high concentrations of toxins from cigarette smoke.”
The result is alarmingly high rates of
bladder cancer among smokers. A 2011 study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that
50 percent of all cases of bladder cancer are found in smokers.
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