A few risk factors for lung cancer include³:

• Personal or Family History: Your risk of lung cancer increases if you, a sibling or parent had lung cancer.
• Air Pollution
• Smoking: As the leading risk factor for lung cancer, risk increases the longer and more packs that you smoke. Secondhand smoke is the third most common cause of lung cancer.
• Toxins: Exposure to radon, asbestos, and cancer-causing agents in the workplace may increase your risk.
• Radiation Exposure to the Chest

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