A recent study has revealed that melanoma patients who have a history of smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products have 40% less chances of survival in case they develop skin cancer, in comparison to people who have never smoked.

Smoking never kills instantly but makes you prone

The recent research of more than 700 melanoma patients funded by Cancer research UK, published in Cancer research, is a valid statement that smoking entirely disturbs immune response against an kind of melanoma or skin caner and lowers the rate of survival of the patient.

The findings from the researchers at the University of Leeds also revealed that overall smokers are 40 per cent less likely to sustain with the disease those patients who have never smoked within a decade after the diagnosis.

The findings from researchers at the University of Leeds shows that overall smokers we’re 40% less likely to sustain with the disease than people who have never smoked within a decade after the diagnosis.