“You know in advance which genes your child inherited?”
There’s a new thing out there called DNA? You may have already heard of it . :)
I am one of the fortunate ones. No history of cancer on either side. Some smokers some not.
In my family history there were/are plenty of smokers. Not one case of cancer ever PERIOD. What’s up with that? Is my family blessed? Is it genetics? You tell me.
You think the only bad effect of smoking is cancer?
The number one problem from smoking is heart disease.
Well then lets tell stuff....
I would estimate that something like less than 10% of my patients who were long term smokers have Cancer.
That was the good news.
The bad news is that I have an endless supply of patients who were/are smokers. I happen to be involved in a very sorry business.
We refer to them (our patients) as COPDers, and many of them are what we know as are "Retainers. (Not all COPDers are smokers, but for this comment, I'll shortcut...)"
Smokers, over a period of time so screw up their bodies that their brains have to adapt. Their chemoreceptors actually become somewhat dysfunctional, and so then the inability for their sympathetic nervous system to recognize insufficient levels of Oxygen can cause them to stop breathing.
It is interesting stuff, but you'll not get much more of a lesson out here from me.
Anybody stupid enough to inhale smoke in the first place is pretty much an imbecile in my opinion.
Do you really wish to engage here in this place and demonstrate more of your ignorance?
The odds of a smoker getting lung cancer vary from 1% - 15% depending on various factors explained in this article. The fact is that the vast majority of smokers don't get lung cancer that's what's up.