Re: Calendars - sort of OT

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:08:04 -0330, Cheryl <cperkins@xxxxxx>
wrote:

LFS wrote:
Hatunen wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:03:42 +0800, Robert Bannister
<robban1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Note: I have now gone three months without smoking. I do have
opinions about this.

A chance for me to slip in a caveat here. I smoked from about age
16 to age 51, when I finally quit for good. That was 21 years
ago, and I suffer from emphysema.
Don't think that if you smoke to some age you consider reasonable
and then quite you are going to escape the damages of smoking.
Quit now!


When my grandfather died in his eighties, we were told that he died of a
smoking related disease. He had never smoked in my lifetime and my
mother thought that he had stopped sometime in his early fifties.

I stopped smoking thirty years ago when diagnosed with a stomach ulcer.


Not everyone who dies of a smoking-related disease got the disease
because they smoked. Some people who die of lung cancer, like one of my
grandmothers, never smoked or had one of the other common risk factors
in her life.

Quite true. According to that paragon of reference. Wikipeida:

"Smoking, particularly of cigarettes, is by far the main
contributor to lung cancer.[32] Across the developed world,
almost 90% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking.[33] In
the United States, smoking is estimated to account for 87% of
lung cancer cases (90% in men and 85% in women).[34] Among male
smokers, the lifetime risk of developing lung cancer is 17.2%;
among female smokers, the risk is 11.6%. This risk is
significantly lower in nonsmokers: 1.3% in men and 1.4% in women"

And...

"The most common cause of lung cancer is long-term exposure to
tobacco smoke. The occurrence of lung cancer in nonsmokers, who
account for as many as 15% of cases, is often attributed to a
combination of genetic factors, radon gas, asbestos, and air
pollution, including secondhand smoke"

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