100 year old smoked since age 7!

she is just one person who hasnt got cancer, perhaps she's just lucky!

 

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because the air is so polluted now that cancer is a higher risk!

 

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Or the scientific studies are wrong or just coincidental.

Baron Max

 

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Then why doesn't everyone get lung cancer?

Baron Max

 

or like i said she just might be lucky, i know that years ago smoking was advertised has a health benefit but people are dieing all over hte world because of smoking!

LA

 

because some people are more prone to illnesses like lung cancer, you are more at risk if a family member has/had it for example

 

Yeah, now we're getting somewhere in this discussion. Some people would develop lung cancer whether they smoked or not .....and some people could smoke their entire lives and not get lung cancer. So, all-in-all, the scientists still don't know what causes lung cancer!! Which is what I've been saying all along.

Baron Max

 

no of course they dont, it is the same with every cancer, they are never 100% sure of anything, they do know however that smoking doesnt help!

 

Just ask yourself: don't you accept statistics and studies when they seem to support your anger and judgements at blacks but suddenly find yourself a radical skeptic about statistics when it comes to smoking?

 

Nope.

Baron Max

 

'Smoking causes nine in ten cases of lung cancer. Lung cancer has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers, and is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK.
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Smoking also increases the risk of over a dozen other cancers including cancers of the mouth, larynx (voice box), oesophagus (food pipe), liver, pancreas, stomach, kidney, bladder and cervix, as well as some types of leukaemia.

Not all smokers get cancer. Why?

You may know someone who smoked all their lives but lived to a ripe old age. Or you may know someone who never smoked but got cancer anyway. Does this mean that smoking doesn’t really cause cancer?

Not at all. Years of research have proven that smoking causes cancer. But this doesn’t mean that all smokers will definitely get cancer or that all non-smokers won’t. It means that smoking greatly increases the risk of this disease. Smokers are, on average, much more likely to get cancer than non-smokers.

In a similar way, we can say that eating sugary foods is a cause of tooth decay. This doesn’t mean that all children who eat sugary foods will end up with decayed teeth. It means that, on average, children who eat lots of sugary foods are more likely to develop tooth decay than those who avoid such foods.

The fact is that half of all smokers eventually die from cancer, or other smoking-related illnesses. And a quarter of smokers die in middle age, between 35 and 69.

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/smokingandtobacco/