[PeterPrinciple]

Only 20-24 percent of smokers get lung cancer. Something like 15 percent of those with lung cancer never smoked.

The media has us to the point that if we even look at a picture of cigarettes, we think we will get cancer.

[Califreak]

I believe cancer is genetic in origin.

How else do you explain the nonsmoker with oral or lung cancer?

Maybe the nicotine and additives cause more cell mutation in already prone people?

Genetics.

[Dr. Sivana]

Only 20-24 percent of smokers get lung cancer.

I wasn't addressing the number of smokers who get lung cancer, only that when smokers get cancer, they are more likely to get lung cancer than other cancer. I think it isw largely genes. My paternal grandparents both died of lung cancer in their early '60s. My father got lung cancer in his early THIRTIES back in the early '70s. He lived only because it was caught VERY early due to a TB test for a job he was taking.

So, I was NOT saying that most smokers get cancer, only that when they do, it is VERY often lung cancer.