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Lungs from pack-a-day smokers safe for transplant, study finds
NBC NEWS, HEALTH ^
| JoNel Aleccia, Staff Writer, NBC News
Posted on 11/11/2013 7:31:11 PM PST by carlo3b
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This should be interesting.. I'm getting the popcorn ready.. :)
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:31:11 PM PST
by
carlo3b
To: carlo3b
If you need a set of lungs badly enough to be on a transplant list, I can’t imagine there would be anything wrong with a set from someone who smoked. I would think you would take what you could get.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:33:30 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: rlmorel
I know I sure as hell would take them, no questions asked.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:34:20 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: carlo3b
“Honest Al’s Used Lung Company”
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:34:29 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: carlo3b
If I need a pair of lungs, I do not care how “bad” they are (as long as they better than mine).
That being said, lungs from a-pack-a-day smokers will mostly be need to be re-installed after a couple of years.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:34:49 PM PST
by
sagar
To: rlmorel
Ditto. As the saying goes, beggars can’t be choosers.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:35:13 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
To: carlo3b
Safe?
What does that mean? Maybe you won't have cancer, but what about COPD?
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:35:21 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: carlo3b
Beggars can’t be choosers.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:36:04 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Fire Muschamp.)
To: carlo3b
Maybe a liver from a drunk?
A brain from a Liberal?
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:37:10 PM PST
by
digger48
(/)
To: carlo3b
My mother smoked for over 60 years and just before she died the doctor said that her lungs, heart, and mind were all sound. Her skin gave out and she had rheumatoid arthritis. I think she just got tired of hurting and gradually over a couple of years, quit eating.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:37:49 PM PST
by
Mercat
To: sagar
Probably not. Most smokers overestimate the lung cancer risk because it’s such a hideous way to die, but the biggest determinant in whether you will get lung cancer from smoking is a history of cancer in your family. Most smokers are actually killed by heart disease and other insidious effects of smoking that don’t necessarily impact their lungs directly.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:38:31 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
To: dfwgator
Beggars cant be choosers. Republican beggars won't have a choice under Obamacare
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:38:53 PM PST
by
digger48
(/)
To: carlo3b
So does this mean smoking does not cause lung cancer?
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:39:26 PM PST
by
funfan
To: dfwgator
It says more than that.. The hair on fire, about Second Hand Smoke is total BS!
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:39:29 PM PST
by
carlo3b
(RUFFLE FEATHERS, and destroy their FEATHER NEST!)
To: digger48
A brain from a Liberal?Whoa... Not so far as that... YIKES! .. :)
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:42:36 PM PST
by
carlo3b
(RUFFLE FEATHERS, and destroy their FEATHER NEST!)
To: carlo3b
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:43:25 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: rlmorel
Lungs heal surprisingly well.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:43:40 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: carlo3b
First, cancer is not longer even treated as cancer,
but something for patients so afflicted ‘to enjoy’.
Second, Congress and their families, not even under
ObamaCARE, will get the ripest, youngest lungs
from the pick of their constituents.
To: digger48
“A brain from a Liberal?”
I’d rather be dead.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:44:57 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: carlo3b
I smoked for over 45 years, and more than 1 pack a day. I quit and can breath just fine. No COPD, no cancer. I'd say we've all been sold a line of BS. Not all smokers will end up with horrible diseases. I'd certainly take the lungs of an ex-smoker if I needed to.
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posted on
11/11/2013 7:44:58 PM PST
by
Just_Sue
(I'm from Texas)
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