Posted on 09/09/2021 11:44:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
A buncha lawyers aren’t going to be pleased to hear about this. Of course, tobacco company lawyers will.
And will we finally be rid of those mesothelioma commercials that have been playing late nights since the late 50s?
OOPS! They let it slip that "second hand" smoke has nothing to do with it. Expect some corrections or re-edits of this article within 24 hours.
ashkenazi jew might have this issue...they seem to have cancer quirks
Could be many things. Even incense.....................
FU, Rob Reiner!
Guess we will have to wait for Fauci to express an opinion, then we can use that as the "Well, it's not that" conclusion.
My father-in-law is 85 and up until recently smoked heavily all his life. Never got lung cancer....................
There is a poster here who knows several Doctors in Cancer research. Maybe with American Cancer Society. I can’t remember.
She said they think that there is a strong genetic component and gave this illustration which still sticks with me:
You could swim in asbestos and not get cancer if you dont have the genetic weakness.
“father-in-law”
1 out of 6 smokers get lung cancer, so that’s 5 out of 6 that don’t.
For non, it’s 1 out of 60.
I’ve often thought that as well.
The opposite of that is my Mother-in-law’s family.
Cancer has killed all her brothers, 5 of them, but all her sisters, 5 of them, are still alive...........
Even still, the authors note that if we can find a pharmaceutical that disrupts signals to the lungs’ progenitor cells, it could help halt the growth of piano tumors.
And the great thing? You don’t have to test them anymore! Just throw it out there!
I call my cigars “Karen-repellent”.
They think one puff at one hundred feet will strike them dead.
:-)
All cancer represents a loss of cellular energy, the genetic transformation from creating and using energy to creating tissue. Diet and exercise help stave off this transformation. Not everyone with good diet and exercise will avoid cancer, and not everyone with bad diet and exercise will get cancer.
in my mother’s immediate family, her parents and sister died of cancer and no one lived longer than 50 years old. My mother made it to 85, but she finally got cancer herself and passed before Christmas. The cancer she got was extremely rare. Her parents and sister didn’t have a rare cancer as far as we know - parents had colon CA and sister died of lung cancer (she smoked).
“OOPS! They let it slip that “second hand” smoke has nothing to do with it. Expect some corrections or re-edits of this article within 24 hours. “
Yes they did.
I'd like to know where you got that figure. The statistics used to say that 7% of pack a day smokers got lung cancer. That is 7 out of 100.
If they aren’t examining the DNA of Keith Richards and Ozzy Osbourne to figure this out, they should be.
My brother had two dogs die of lung cancer about ten years apart and different breeds.
Wonder if it’s the same cause
“I’d like to know “
Stuck in my head from at least 10 years ago, I can try to look up. Note your stat refers to pack a day. The 1 in 6 refers to all smokers, i.e., including those over a pack a day.
Other number that stuck with me it takes 30 “pack years” (1 pack a day for 30 yrs or 2 for 15, etc.) to present irreversable and noticeable pulmonary reduction in later life compared to non smokers, measured in FEV - forced expiratory volume.
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