[carlo3b]

This should be interesting.. I'm getting the popcorn ready.. :)

[rlmorel]

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.

[headstamp 2]

“Honest Al’s Used Lung Company”

[sagar]

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.

[ConorMacNessa]

Safe?

What does that mean? Maybe you won't have cancer, but what about COPD?

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

Eagles Up! Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[dfwgator]

Beggars can’t be choosers.

[digger48]

Maybe a liver from a drunk?

A brain from a Liberal?

[Mercat]

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.

[funfan]

So does this mean smoking does not cause lung cancer?

[MUDDOG]

Except Kools.

[Diogenesis]

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.

[Just_Sue]

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.

[Gamecock]

Smokers lungs are safe for transplants....announced just as 0bama care rolls out.

[Jonty30]

It depends who are transplanting those lungs into. Somebody who is younger is probably not a good choice, as the damaged lungs would hamper them through life, but it’s more justifiable for an older person or somebody who needs lungs, but their state of health is already hampered by other medical decisions.

However, by trying to make this argument, you know they want this for everybody but the very well-to-do or politically connected.

[Proud2BeRight]

The good news is that the death panel has given you permission to get a lung. The bad news is it from a smoker.

[PJ-Comix]

Would you want a nicotine stained lung transplant from WILLIAM RIVERS PITT?

[jocon307]

So, presumably the donors did not die of lung disease? Do you have to die in an accident to be a donor? That is to say, if you have a heart attack, can your organs be donated (other than your hear?)? I suppose if you die of cancer they are all off limits? Or maybe not, unaffected organs are OK?

[eak3]

It’s all genetics. Plenty of hard core smokers out there who go through life fine. None smokers are just susceptible to the same crap that gets smokers. It’s all bs to try and control the public. I’d be more scared of these genetically engineered foods they are feeding us and the chickens were going to be getting from China thanks to the new FDA laws.

[VeniVidiVici]

This should be interesting.. I'm getting the popcorn ready.. :)

LOL! I thought the same thing and only read your post before saving it for later.

[PGR88]

Falls under the category of “beggars can’t be choosers.”

[jmacusa]

Smoke your way to good health! Yeah. Works for me.