[LittleSpotBlog]

So, how did my grandmother get lung cancer if she never smoked? My grandfather smoked for 40 years, and they both fell ill. It's a fact that smoking causes cancer, among many other ailments.

[SheLion]

It's a fact that smoking causes cancer, among many other ailments.

What other ailments are you talking about?  Do you think we are all kids here?

Everyone is born with cancer cells.  Depending on one's lifestyle and all around immune system is what determines who gets cancer.  Smoking alone does not cause cancer.  This is junk science.

My previous post about my one grandmother living to be 86 and she smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day?  And my other grandmother never smoked, died at age 42 full of cancer?

[calenel]

"It's a fact that smoking causes cancer, among many other ailments."

It has not been proven that second hand smoke is harmful. Latest studies find no link between second hand smoke and cancer. Perhaps your Grandmother got lung cancer from some other source, such as asbestos. Who knows? But the most recent studies refute the second hand smoke myth. Since your grandfather also fell ill, perhaps there was an unidentified cause that affected them both and the smoking was irrelevant.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

That's anecdotal not science.

There could have been other common causes or just a coincidence of life.

Btw, you ARE aware that several leukemias are spread via blood? Surely, you give blood once in a while and know that they check for those? They are viruses from what I understand and can lay dormant in a persons body for 20-30 years.

And that some cancers are thought to be caused by viruses?

[uglybiker]

So, how did my grandmother get lung cancer if she never smoked? My grandfather smoked for 40 years, and they both fell ill.

INteresting. My Grandfather smoked for almost 70 years. It was about the only thing he didn't die of. Grandma, who was with most of that time, outlived him by fifteen years.

All luck of the draw, my friend.