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To: TigersEye
More on "like to know"

I started to search but the following came up quickly and for a more recent study (2018) with a close approximation to the 1 in 6:

https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-percentage-of-smokers-get-lung-cancer-2248868 There's table that indicates (for male smokers), chance is 14.8%, which is about 1 in 6.75.

22 posted on 09/09/2021 1:30:16 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Thanks! That is a lot more than I could find 10 yrs ago when I tried to research it. I don’t know how credible that site is (what their sources are) but I’ll take it at face value.

That said, they put a lot of caveats on the way they apply the data to different groups. They also throw shade on previous data by saying “there wasn’t a lot of study done in the past.” I am skeptical of that. In the ‘80s they were well along the track of collecting every bit of data possible on smoking and its effects.


23 posted on 09/09/2021 1:43:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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