Posted on 03/02/2021 2:33:24 AM PST by TakebackGOP
"So it is not surprising that near the end of the day, he welcomes the opportunity to relax and to do so with a recently discovered interest--a cigar. "I've only been smoking them for about a year,'' Limbaugh says. "But I've gotten into them like I haven't gotten into anything in a long time.''
It all began, he says, at a dinner in Ozone Park, Queens, in New York, with a friend and the friend's family. "He had his three sons with him,'' Limbaugh says, "and after dinner he passed around some cigars. They smelled just superb. He offered me one, and at first I rejected it. But I finally relented and took it, because it was a celebratory evening. They were pre-Castro Montecristos. And they were absolutely stupendous.''"
(Excerpt) Read more at cigaraficionado.com ...
Considering that about 65% of the US smoked during the 1950s-60s, any cancer could be attributed to smoking......
Know several people who died of lung cancer who never smoked... Know more people who smoked into their late 80s.....
Not discounting the possible relation but the non-smokers can just go to h*ll.....
Viva el Cigar! (or at least till I die) 😎
“ Wouldn’t his lung cancer have been caught with tests?”
I had a friend who got a full physical every November. Without fail. Clean bill of health every time. Except this time. Stage four cancer in both lungs, kidneys, liver, bones. He lived another two months and died in excruciating pain. It can happen fairly quick.
Buckley said, "I tell myself that I do not inhale."
Buckley died from COPD, which I think used to be called emphysema.
Low dose CAT scans are recommended for high risk individuals.
However, they do miss small tumors, and small lung tumors usually have no obvious symptoms like pain or coughing.
Annual lung x-rays or CAT scans actually increase your risk for lung cancer, so many people opt out.
A blood test would be ideal, but as far as I know, none are available.
"Radiation-related risk in anyone above 65 years of age from a diagnostic CT of the chest or abdomen is negligible to none," says Dr. Dushyant V. Sahani, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of CT imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. "The doses are very low and the time it takes cancer to develop can be 20 years or more."
Still, you should have only the scans that are necessary, and choose alternatives that don't require radiation exposure when possible.
The general annual physical will not detect lung cancer nor many others. Current recommendations is that those who have smoked 15 pack-years (one pack a day for 15 years, or 1/2 pack a day for 30 years, etc.) have an annual low dose. CT of the chest. Routine Chest x-rays are not recommended for screening. In this manner it is hoped that early, surgically treatable lung cancers can be detected. Once a lung cancer is found on a routine Chest x-ray it is usually too late to effect a surgical cure. Insurance companies have been mandated to cover this screening without co-pay as per legislation. Of course lung cancers can occur in those who have never smoked as 10% of lung cancer patients never touched a cigarette.
So, if you have smoked.... ask your doctor to order the CT scan ...although many doctors don’t think about it for whatever reason, so be pro-active!
Does anyone know how long the typical lung cancer victim is in stage 1? Is it years or months? I hear often that it is possible that stage 1 last decades.??
First time I have heard that chest CTs have no risk.
Good news.
I just recently started enjoying an occasional pipe. My oldest son bought one for me one day when I mentioned that I remember the wonderful (to me at least) smell of someone in my family who smoked a pipe.
I found a tobacco shop not far away that sells actual pipe tobacco (too many ‘smoke shops’ around here sell nothing but cigs, vapes, and paraphernalia for smoking wacky weed). I found a couple aromatic blends that I really enjoy. I only smoke occasionally, and not every day. And I don’t inhale.
(On a historical note, I know that C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, and American humorist Patrick F. McManus were all pipe smokers.)
“I had a friend who got a full physical every November.”
My annual physicals don’t include x-rays or CAT scans.
“The scans expose people to x-rays, and this so-called ionizing radiation can damage cells and lead to cancer down the road.”
What about using an MRI. Perhaps they are too expensive.
The good news for smokers...
If you quit before age 40, there is a 99% chance that your risk factor for lung cancer will return to normal after 10 years.
He smoked cigars and he smoked during his radio show. He died from it.
... it is clear from the response he has received that many people want to hear what he is saying. “It’s one of the main reasons I’ve been successful,” he says. “People say to me it’s so good to finally have someone saying what they believe. Rather than being an agent of influence, I think I am someone who validates what millions of Americans think and just don’t hear expressed in the media. In fact, they are treated to television shows and movies that make fun of what they believe.”
My grandpop started smoking at age 7, rolled his own, no filters, and worked from age 7 until 65 in a large factory with all kinds of airborne coal dust, oils, paints, solvents and whatever. He only quit smoking in his last year of life, and lived a decade longer than our Rush. It’s a roll of the dice.
Actually I am superior to you. So are most people. So are most dogs. So are most lumps of dog crap you see when out on a stroll. I’m done wasting time with you. You reek of tobacco and b.s.
Grant
Freud
Limbaugh
Rush was smoking cigars.
An older couple I knew never smoked or drank, and both died of lung cancer. I suspect radon in their basement, or lawn chemicals.
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