“Thanks for posting, had a friend who gave up smoking and ten years later died of lung cancer.”
My friend’s dad as well. The wife finally got him to quit. 9 years later he was dead of lung cancer.
A judge I knew in my hometown was diagnosed with heart disease in his late 50’s. He hadn’t smoked since he was 30 but the doc still attributed it to smoking. Crazy.
I typed for a pulmonary doc, and that’s what they do for their stats, 30 year agos spent a week with a smoker, good enough reason to blame smoking.