One in Four Smokers Will Get Lung Disease

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[CougarGA7]

Not me. I only smoke the cigarettes that are bad for pregnant women. You got to read the side of the pack to make sure you get the right one.

[Tokra]

...and from 1942:

[Rakkasan1]

engage your mind

[Tokra]

100% of orange juice drinkers die.

But they don't die from the orange juice!

[gov_bean_ counter]

My father and Uncle also a life long smokers died from COPD. It truly is a horrible way to die. What people don't seem to understand is that although they eventually do drown the death is slow. Kidney failure, muscle atrophy, etc. The body just withers away. Very sad.

[wagglebee]

Not to mention that the cost of end-of-life care for a smoker dying of smoking-related illness is generally much LOWER than a non-smoker who gradually dies of old age with all of its associated ailments.

[Radix]

I'd bet money that you have never visited a chronic hospital's trach ward.

Have you ever even met a tracheotomy patient? Have you ever seen a person who has to breathe with 100% mechanical support?

You would not jest about this subject so readily after watching just a couple of patients being suctioned mechanically because their own bodies lack the capacity to move their lung secretions.

I read that 15% percent of all people are predisposed to certain types of COPD. That fraction of people who elect to smoke cigarettes are certainly headed for years of absolute misery because of that choice.

Maybe you are in that 15%, and maybe not, but your snide comments do no good for the people who were possibly just as arrogant concerning their prospects of ever becoming a COPDer. I'm certain that the family members of such victims would largely concur.

On the other hand, I'm going to be buying a really nice new car soon.I have my own personal relationship with a few COPDers. I take care of them, and I make a good living.

[Alter Kaker]

36% of all the subjects died; 1.25% of all died of COPD;

COPD isn't primarily a killer, although it clearly kills. It debilitates, ruining quality of life.

How many of the other 34.75% who died died of smoking related ailments, I wonder?

[Toby06]

I'd bet money that you have never visited a chronic hospital's trach ward.

Pay up, sucker!

[svcw]

conclusively?

[maineman]

Yes, but 25% will DIE. In 'meat & potato' terms....1 IN 4 WILL DIE THAT SMOKE.

[Alter Kaker]

conclusively?

Yes. Conclusively.

[Dov in Houston]

Just wait til it gets so bad that you have quit because of Emphysema, COPD and a lung gone. As is the case here

Nicotine was the hardest for me to quit and as usual I wheeze and cough when I try to do anything except sleep. And sometimes even than. If the government didn't make so much in taxes on it they would outlaw it.

[maineman]

SMOKE UP!!!

[Joe 6-pack]

"If people would take better care of their health, maybe those of us who do wouldn't have to subsidize those would constantly go to the doctor for avoidable problems driving up our insurance rates."

Sounds like a deal....just stop using the jogging tracks, sidewalks, public swimming pools, parks etc. that we smokers have subsidized in tobacco taxes, and we'll be able to subsidize our own health care.

[wagglebee]

How's this?

"One in one will die who eat, drink and breath."

[Radix]

You should not joke like that.

I know it is just a web site, but ...the stuff is killer.

When I was younger, I used to be unconcerned about the health hazards of ...well anything.

Nowadays, I see lots of folks expire who might have lived many years longer if they had made certain different choices.

I recently learned that I am soon to be a grandfather.

I want to enjoy some of that.

Many of the people that I see regularly, will never have that opportunity. It is sad.

[NCLaw441]

You said: Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!
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I don't smoke, never have. I don't who else does, that's a personal choice. But a 25% chance of a pretty crummy disease might bother me if were considering smoking. Sure, 75% chance of no lung disease, but I'm not sure what other risks I would take at 25% chance. If 25% of those who crossed the street were killed by cars, would you cross? If 25% of those who ate peanut butter sandwiches choked to death, would you choose another kind of sandwich?

Those odds don't sound too good when you are talking about a risk to your life. Then again, each of us gets to choose.

[DungeonMaster]

There are a lot of other diseases smokers get. Losing your teeth is not even considered a disease but it's pretty common.

[Old Professer]

I would hope they tracked more information than what is published here.