[higgmeister]

You guys need to stop this foolishness. Years ago my doctor was showing me a good x-ray of my lungs, but there were nickel sized white spots all over my lungs that he didn't even mention. I asked him what were all of those white spots and he said, "oh that?" Don't worry about it. That is just some scaring from a fungus infection you must have had in the past.

I remembered that fungus infection because I had a devil of a time getting the doctor to treat me. He obviously gave me some broad spectrum antibiotic that killed it in spite of not believing my odd symptoms.

The point is that scaring can heal just as the effects of smoking can heal over time.

After 10 years

After 10 years, a person’s chances of developing lung cancer and dying from it are roughly cut in half compared with someone who continues to smoke. The likelihood of developing mouth, throat, or pancreatic cancer has significantly reduced.

After 15 years

After 15 years of having quit smoking, the likelihood of developing coronary heart disease is the equivalent of a non-smoker. Similarly, the risk of developing pancreatic cancer has reduced to the same level as a non-smoker.

Any scaring will in a few months be next to nothing. I'm not a doctor but I can read.

[Carriage Hill]

That’s not what the drs, CDC and NIH are reporting. The mucous builds-up so fast from the scarring, that the victim drowns in it, allowing no air into the lungs, during the illness. There is no “after”, in many, many cases.

I heard interviews w/ drs who said they’d never seen such scarring in younger people’s lungs, and some were young children.

True, many don’t present such symptoms, but those with scarring and concurrent mucous build-up, do, and die.

I’m a 55yr smoker, and my lungs are clear as saran wrap. Go figure. It depends on the person.