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quit smoking campaigner dies of lung cancer
USSEnterprise:
That would've been my guess.
saint:
--- Quote ---The chances of getting lung cancer
The chance of getting some form of invasive cancer in your lifetime is high: almost one in two women and more than one in three men in the United States will develop cancer (excluding certain skin cancers). Lung cancer is much less frequent, however. The chance of ever developing lung cancer is about one in 13 if you are female, and one in 18 if you are male.
These statistics obviously change if you are a smoker or not, and whether you have other risk factors. Though varying sources come up with different risk assessments, according to the Centers for Disease Control, women are twelve times more likely to get lung cancer if they smoke than if they don’t. Men are more than twenty times as likely. And the more you smoke, the worse it is.
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http://www.stats.org/stories/lung_cancer_rates_mar08_06.htm
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fredster:
A report I did in 1982. Back when they didn't bias results as much as now.
USSEnterprise:
Don't you think things have changed as far as medical discoveries in 24 years?
boykster:
--- Quote from: fredster on November 29, 2006, 01:50:58 pm ---A report I did in 1982. Back when they didn't bias results as much as now.
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I saw an old tv commercial that claimed that smoking was healthy. Somehow I have a feeling that the statistics today are more accurate, not because of bias, but because of better diagnostics and recognition of causality.