Posted on 10/17/2006 1:09:34 PM PDT by trumandogz
TUESDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that at least 1 in every 4 smokers will develop progressive and incurable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a much higher risk than previously believed.
COPD is a respiratory disease that results in blocked air flow to the lungs and grows progressively worse.
For this study, published online in the journal Thorax, researchers at Hvidovre Hospital analyzed data on 8,000 men and women, ages 30 to 60. All were monitored for 25 years as part of the Copenhagen City Heart Study.
At the start of the study, all the participants' lungs were healthy and working normally. However, over the course of the 25 years, the lungs of almost all the male non-smokers continued to function normally, compared to 60 percent of men who continued to smoke.
Among women, 90 percent of non-smokers still had healthy lungs at the end of 25 years, compared to 70 percent of smokers.
Overall, 25 percent of the participants developed moderate or severe COPD over the 25 years. Persistent smokers were six times more likely to develop COPD than non-smokers.
During the 25 years, there were 2,900 deaths in the study group. Of those deaths, 109 were directly attributable to COPD, and nearly all those deaths were in people who were active smokers at the start of the study. Only two non-smokers died of COPD.
The study also found a sharp decline in the risk of COPD among people who stopped smoking soon after the start of the study. Over the 25 years, none of these ex-smokers developed severe COPD.
LOL! So you're suggesting smoking doesn't cause lung cancer? Is this really a cause you want to take on? What are you, the Don Quixote of the online forum world?
The Righteous Right and the Loony Left are equals. Both are willing to utilize government guns to enforce their morals, trampling on the individual's rights in the name of the community. Both are equally dangerous to our great Republic and both have no place in legislation. Both are enemies to freedom.
That you think your brand of socialism isn't liberal is rather comical.
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Clearly, we live on different planets . . .
Evidently smokers, if I understand the post accurately, beleive in repealing the legislated morality of stoplights, against murder, against raping 4 year olds, against offing one's parents when their care becomes bothersome, against racing down the street at 75+ mph thru the school zone . . . those being such horribly hideous restrictions on personal rights and liberties and all.
Christians have expanded personal freedoms and rights around the globe for many centuries for many disadvantaged and repressed peoples of all colors and backgrounds. I suppose it is somewhat to be expected that folks who claim that depositing sticky gooey permanent tar on delicate cellular lung tissues is a wonderful expression of freedom might have difficulty keeping facts straight about Christians and personal freedoms.
That is rather perversely comical in a sort of FRIDY THE 13TH kind of way.
Carolyn
Anyone who takes the Lords name in vain is not a good Christian, IMHO.
Forget the holes. Just crawl back under your rock. And oh yes! Don't forget to VOTE!!
I'm not a Christian at all. Does that make me an idiot?
Journal of Theoretics Vol.1-4
Oct/Nov 1999 Editorial
Smoking Does Not
Cause Lung Cancer
(According to WHO/CDC Data)*
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http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Editorials/Editorial%201-4.html
Your attitude on a Free Republic thread and the way you treat fellow Freepers just because they choose to use a legal product makes you an idiot, in my honest opinion. And I know others who feel the same way I do.
That's true, but have you ever watched someone die of pulmonary disease or lung cancer? You ever watch someone you love gasp for air, but not be able to? We're all gonna die, but this is not the way I would want to go.
He was smoking up a storm, it appeared that his brothers death didn't clue him in to the possibilities.
As for your misrepresentations of WHO/CDC data, according to PubMed, a total of 8,646 real, peer-reviewed studies reached the alternate conclusion. Nobody in their right mind doubts that smoking causes lung cancer -- no causal link has ever been more conslusively established by more scientists doing more research.
By the way, just say the word, and I will post all 8,646 studies conclusively linking lung cancer to smoking. I don't want to let your nonsense stand unchallenged.
Believe what you want to believe and I will stick with the facts. Thank you
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So let me get this straight. You post some nonsense from a blog masquerading as a "scientific journal." I offer to post 8,646 studies from real scientific journals proving you not only wrong, but ludicrously wrong. And you're accusing me of ignoring facts? I think your outlook has been compromised by your addiction.
Than what gives you the right to criticize you don't understand? And I am not belittling life, just enjoying it, but you wouldn't understand that obviously.
Isn't it great we get to choose?
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