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One in Four Smokers Will Get Lung Disease
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Posted on 10/17/2006 1:09:34 PM PDT by trumandogz

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To: trumandogz
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.

Isn't it interesting that of all the smokers I've ever known, only one (my dad), ever got any type of lung disease? The folks I know must just be extra lucky or something.

61 posted on 10/17/2006 2:00:14 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: svcw

I gotta admit, a lot of the talk about disease is what prompted me to quit smoking.

But mostly it was the cost, the social exclusion, and the stench it created.

There's no guarantee that any one smoker will get any one disease due to their smoking, but it's true that smoking puts you at a higher risk for all sorts of nastiness. Nastiness I'd rather avoid while keeping more dosh in my pocket. :-)


62 posted on 10/17/2006 2:01:38 PM PDT by nofaceveils
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To: verum ago
everyone who gets cancer has eaten carrots.

I'm willing to bet that's not true!

You may be right, but they all drank water!

63 posted on 10/17/2006 2:02:00 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Radix

I didn't make any jokes. What did you think was humorous? We are all going to die. I had a healthy neighbor get hit by a bus. I went for a smoke break. I've been on a respiratory floor (I have a ANOTHER nurse girlfriend, what can I say, I like nurses)

I smoke, but I am not some freak alarmist. I want to enjoy my time, not suffer eating bland food mixed with sawdust. I like beer & cigars.

Oh horrors, i drive fast, too.

Screw it, I like living life, and if I go a little early, tough crap, I'm having fun. I don't plan on having anythin left at the end, I want to use up every single bit of life in me.


64 posted on 10/17/2006 2:02:21 PM PDT by Toby06
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To: NCLaw441

If you crossed the street 20-60 times a day for 25 years your risk of dying from being hit by a car would go way up.


65 posted on 10/17/2006 2:03:07 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: 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.

I'm so sorry to hear about that. I've known far too many people in your situation. Just wait for the addicts on FR to attack you, however.

66 posted on 10/17/2006 2:03:41 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: zarf
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.

Yeah, I'm tired of paying the medical costs for those morons who blow out their knees from running.

67 posted on 10/17/2006 2:03:58 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: thoughtomator
Brilliant!!!

We must all smoke for a couple of years or we have a higher chance of dying from COPD!!!

Now, that is a headline - but it doesn't play into the anti-smoking crusader's agenda.
68 posted on 10/17/2006 2:05:20 PM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: Toby06
Time for a smoke. BRB.


Thank YOU for smoking!
69 posted on 10/17/2006 2:06:59 PM PDT by rock_lobsta (Offending liberals since 1993)
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To: Alter Kaker

They can attack away. I was addicted and decided I wanted to live a bit and finally beat it. Beat the tobacco but lost all my chances of leading a normal life


70 posted on 10/17/2006 2:08:25 PM PDT by Dov in Houston
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To: Darteaus94025

Yep. Even though it appears nonsensical, that is the objective conclusion to reading the data presented - former smokers have less risk than those who never smoked. Oh, the irony.


71 posted on 10/17/2006 2:08:31 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: Baynative

Well, if you read most of the messages in this thread, tobacco can't be blamed for this person's health problems.
According to this thinking ,there is no such thing as "smoker's disabilities."


72 posted on 10/17/2006 2:10:39 PM PDT by cydcharisse
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To: wagglebee
"Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!"

Because the 75% have heart attacks first

73 posted on 10/17/2006 2:13:42 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Gordongekko909

LOL.... thanks, I knew it wasn't Thorax, but I just couldn't recall the name.


74 posted on 10/17/2006 2:19:31 PM PDT by Unknown Pundit
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To: Moonman62
The bad breath serves to keep people like you far away...
;O)
75 posted on 10/17/2006 2:20:39 PM PDT by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ .05ยข a can.)
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To: trumandogz

Some weep-o-crat study again. biased. Not too smart weep-o-crats!!!


76 posted on 10/17/2006 2:22:50 PM PDT by Weep-o-crat Hunter
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To: Old Professer

You said: If you crossed the street 20-60 times a day for 25 years your risk of dying from being hit by a car would go way up.
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I am no statistician, so I don't know if the odds go up for each time you cross the street. Theoretically the risk is the same each time, I think. But then again, I am just a lawyer, and former high school foreign language teacher. My son is good at math, though...


77 posted on 10/17/2006 2:23:58 PM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: MEGoody
You may be right, but they all drank water!

time for the ol' lecture on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide! BAN DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE!
78 posted on 10/17/2006 2:24:35 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: trumandogz
100% of Smoke Nazis spend an inordinate amount of time wringing their hands and clucking over the choices some adults make.
79 posted on 10/17/2006 2:24:39 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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