My Grandmother is 100 and smoked unfiltered cigarettes until she was 75. Last year she got pnuemonia and fluid in the lungs and she recovered. So much for damaged lungs from smoking.
>>Smoking was so healthy for my mother it killed her with lung cancer. Smoking was so healthy for me it gave me COPD.<<
Understanding that your mother died of a lung disease and knowing that you have come up with one yourself, I would think that it is genetic in your family.
Now they are finding that Radon has a big factor in Lung disease. People who have never smoked nor lived with smokers have contracted lung disease. As the rates of smoking go down, the rates of lung cancer are remaining the same. Why is that? If one’s house is on a slab with any part of it (including crawlspaced)exposed to dirt, Radon is a danger.
I’m not a smoker, but I don’t like junk science. When every list to prevent any disease has “stop smoking” included, this has become a big boogey man and a way to control people. It’s time to take a serious look at ALL the causes. Especially since obesity rates have skyrocketted as smoking has been reduced.