Smoking and Asbestos Diseases

Smoking itself does not cause mesothelioma. However, smoking and asbestos exposure together creates a much higher risk of disease than either creates by itself. Medical studies have shown that smokers are four to eleven times more likely than non-smokers to develop lung cancer; heavy smokers have a twenty seven times greater risk. Asbestos exposure and smoking combined increases the risk by fifty to ninety times.

The same holds true with asbestosis; cigarette smoking alone does not cause the disease. But lung cancer is more likely in people who have asbestosis and if you also smoke, the risk goes up exponentially.

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