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09-02-2011, 06:19 PM
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Re: What Smoking Does, This is Sad :(
My husband had squamous cell carcinoma, he was a former smoker and quit in his 20's, got cancer in his 50's. Quitting smoking helps, but, if you have ever smoked & carry the cancer gene related to smoking/cancer you'll get it.
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09-04-2011, 04:39 PM
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Re: What Smoking Does, This is Sad :(
The sad thing is that he loved his cigarettes more than he loved his family. I dipped snuff for 17 years, at least a can a day & sometimes 2 cans a day. Told myself that when my son was born, I would quit for him. It took me some time, but I finally did quit, 22 months later. The can is dated 7/19/04 and I took my last dip a week later.
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#98
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09-04-2011, 04:46 PM
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Re: What Smoking Does, This is Sad :(
it does say how much he smoked... "Bryan started when he was just 13, building up to more than two packs a day." some smokers who get cancer smoke only a pack a day. some people die from lung cancer who don't smoke at all and never did. some people smoke well into their 80's and even older. cancer isn't too picky as to who it selects as a victim. much depends on your genetics and over all habits. smoking isn't a good habit and we tend to think it won't happen to us. i've been lucky. i smoke around 10 packs a week. even with having active TB and coughing up blood back in the mid 90's i continued to smoke. been smoking for 42 years. so far, so good. my friend who got me smoking when we were both 14 years old died in 1991 at age 46. my guess is that she continued to smoke menthol and i switched to non menthol while i was still in my teens. i personally think menthol cigarettes are more of a health hazard than non menthol. but that is just my opinion based on the deaths of two friends that smoked. more than likely it was just coincidence that they both smoked menthol cigarettes. |
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09-04-2011, 11:26 PM
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Re: What Smoking Does, This is Sad :(
And not just a cigar, we are also to a much bigger problem: "Alcohol," I have seen many patients in a hospital in Mexico to reach many people with alcohol problems, people who drink from age 13 to intoxication and ultimately develop either cirrhosis or hepatocellular cancer, many of whom are diagnosed when they already have metastases.
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