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To: Albion Wilde

[... Cancer isn’t caused mechanically by outside agents...]

Really? Then why are we so afraid of asbestos and cigarettes?


287 posted on 06/25/2009 3:46:50 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
[... Cancer isn’t caused mechanically by outside agents...]
Really? Then why are we so afraid of asbestos and cigarettes?

Those fall in the category of environmental pollutants that can contribute to weakening a susceptible individual's immune system in such a way that a cancer can develop, but the other factors would have to be there, such as a genetic predisposition and possibly a triggering virus. Otherwise, 100% of people exposed for a long time to cigarettes or asbestos would get cancer. And we all know some old grandpas (mine died at 80 after smoking unfiltered roll-your-owns from the age of 7) who did not die of the same pollutant.

310 posted on 06/25/2009 4:39:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Shouldn't there be equal time for our Bill of Responsibilities?" -- Justice Clarence Thomas)
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