Posted on 11/12/2007 6:51:35 AM PST by fanfan
Everyone I know who has emphysema smoked. No thanks.
Maybe. We all know smokers to whom this happened. My own father-in-law was one. But they probably would have gotten cancer had they kept on smoking, too. In other words, by the time you have been smoking for forty years, the damage to your cells is done. But quitting might repair the damage to your circulatory system.
I tried to smoke chains but how do you keep them lit?
Brother Dave Gardner
HAHAHAHAHAHAH yes, because you know, cooked flesh and burned wood is the same as nicotine, tar, and all the other goodies added to shredded tobacco leaf in a cigarette.
My allergist/asthma specialist said much the same thing. If you have a tendency towards lung problems, like asthma and allergies, then smoking will do you in. If you don't, it won't, and that explains why some people smoke and get emphysema and such, and why some live till their nineties.
I’m stunned.
I have personally believed this for years but who the hell is going to believe you when you say this? It was one reason I refused to quit for so long.
But I did quit two years ago. Still have my fingers crossed.
And hundreds of thousands of others developed lung cancer and died while never stopping smoking at all.
You don’t abuse your body for decades and think it’ll have no impact.
My b-i-l has smoked two packs a day for forty years, had a heart attack and developed emphysema before fifty while still smoking.
Maybe my dad’s an exception...but he quit smoking at 40 and is now
staring down his 80th birthday in a couple of weeks.
His only health complaint is some dermatological problems (maybe
brought on by his 44 years in the petrochemical lab? Or just his
bad luck?)
I would never argue that smoking is a "good thing". I was just saying...
The only two people I know personally who got lung cancer never smoked at all.
Too much BS masquerading as science. No profession on earth has as sordid a history of lies and incompetence as the medical profession.
I need to start hanging out with your crowd. :)
Of course, the missing factor in this study is the fact that many, many (if not most) lifetime smokers who finally quit -— only quit because their lungs are so badly damaged they can barely breath.
Of course people with badly damaged lungs have an increased risk of lung cancer.
Cart, meet horse.
What about quitting slowly, which I’m sure is harder to do?
Would a nicotine patch help? Could it be related to what that does to your body?
There’s still a lot of unanswered questions.
It reminds me of a friend. She put the family on an very low fat diet quite suddenly, just decided to do it one day. Her husband had a serious heart attack within a month. She always wondered if the sudden change was responsible. This sounds like much the same thing.
That’s what makes this whole thing so difficult to sort out.
I don't intend to find out!
Everyone I know who’s died from it were life long smokers... sorry, but you are beyond denial if you are sitting there trying to deny that smoking is not an activity that vastly increases the risk of developing lung cancer.
Maybe you need to go read the 1950s report, long before politically correct nonsense was the mainstream.
Low fat diets are another myth of the medical profession. Just like low sodium. God only knows how many people die because of these phony inventions. Why would any one go to a medical doctor for nutrition advice anyhow? The doctors spend millions attacking vitamin salesmen and nutritionists, etc. I recently saw another “study” that “proved” that vitamins don’t help people. How can anyone take a profession seriously that perpetrates such fraud through cooked studies?
You mean like the Kinsey study?
I’m not denying anything. I just don’t trust the doctors. It took years and years to convince them to wash their hands. They are just as arrogant and imperialistic today.
The thing I find disgusting is smoking around kids. OK, so you are an addict and there is not much we can do about that, but smoking around kids, as if it is just a normal thing to do, is reprehensible.
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