If you smoke is it a 100% proven fact that you will get lung cancer!?

Question

Or do you have to smoke for like a number of years to develop lung cancer!! .. or what if you smoke and then stop .. will you still get lung cancer!??

Answer 1

See smoking and other tobacco uses increase the chances of getting cancer there is no rule that all those who smoke will get cancer the exceptions are always there. In fact there are many people who are great smokers and are living or had lived more than 90 years hale and healthy. What the doctors & scientists say is they have found out that smoking increases the chance of getting cancer and nothing more or nothing less than it. The latest report says eating good cancer fighting / curing foods like cabagge would prevent the cancer for most of the people who eat them hence search in the net for "cancer curing food" and consume it. All the best.

Answer 2

Cancer is a collection of mutations in your DNA. While it's not 100% proven, the chance is HUGE (whereas if everyone quit smoking, deaths from lung cancer would drop 85%!) The smoke from cigarettes has tons of mutagens (as well as tons of other nasty crap) which will cause the mutations in your DNA. The less time you've spent smoking the better, but even being around second hand smoke has been proven to lead to cancer.

So no, it doesn't depend on how long ago you stopped, and if you smoke and then stop you're doing a great thing to reduce your risk, but you may still get lung cancer. Everyone's body responds differently. If you need help stopping or need more information, you can ask your doctor.

Answer 3

Smoking is the major reasons for getting lung Cancer.

Tobacco smoking accounts for nearly 90% of all lung cancers. The risk of developing lung cancer is increased for smokers who start at a young age, and for those who have smoked for a long time. The risk also increases as more cigarettes are smoked, and when cigarettes with higher tar content are smoked. Smoking marijuana cigarettes is also a risk factor for lung cancer. These cigarettes have a higher tar content than tobacco cigarettes.

Lung cancer is directly related to smoking. Over 40 carcinogens have been identified in cigarette smoke. The risk of developing lung cancer is directly related to the number of cigarettes smoked. The change in consumption from unfiltered high tar cigarettes to filtered low tar cigarettes parallels the change in incidence from squamous cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma. There is a long interval between quitting smoking and elimination of lung cancer risk. Up to 40% of newly diagnosed lung cancer occurs in former smokers.

Some smokers are not affected by Cancer also, but his can not be taken as example and the chances of getting the disease is more. -

Answer 4

Yes, if you smoke and stop, you can still get cancer because you have done damage that may turn to cancer. Not everyone gets cancer, they get; throat cancer, tongue cancer, their faces age faster, smoke damages their eyes, the expose innocent non-smokers to their filthy habit that causes second hand smoke cancer, etc., etc.

You set yourself up for asthma, COPD and emphazema when you smoke, all of which limit your ability to breathe and make life very difficult.

Bottom line, smoke destroys a body. If you smoke quit and never do it again. My grandfather died from smoking, he had lung cancer. He had one lung removed and they found the cancer in his other lung and sent him home to die and early, painful death.

Answer 5

Funny question. My Grandma ( in law ) just got diagnosed with lung cancer, and smoked since she was young.
She never quit--so that obviously upped her chances.
I was thinking the same question.
My lover lived in a family with 3 smokers (out of 5 people) for 18 years. I wonder how much that upped his chances, just from the secondhand. He smoked for one year.
Good thing he's completely against it now
Unfortunately, it took a near-death to get that way.

Answer 6

just because someone smokes does not mean that they will for sure get cancer. my dad died from cancer at 41, my mom has been smoking for 30 years and doesnt have it. my grandpa smoked forever and never got it. some do, some dont, everyone has a cancer gene and it just depends on the person on whether or not it is dominant.

Answer 7

Smoking does cause cancer says me with a ciggarette in my hand.
I beileve its the chemicals that they put in the cigaretes.
IF you stop smoking and dont have cancer already I belive that the chances of you getting it diminish on a yearly basis..
When you stop you will gain weight but you can take weight off.
The idea is to keep busy.

Answer 8

No it isnt proven but it greatly increases your chances of getting it, but it depends on the people, my grandparents have smoked fro 60 years and they are fine apart from some breathing difficulties

Answer 9

sometimes its very "funny".
those who dont even smoke can get lung cancer, sometimes those who smokes may not get lung cancer.
it's just whether yr lucky or Not.

:)

Answer 10

Soon the government will mandate that we all live in our own personal bubble. Next is the food industry I'm sure. After all isn't obesity an epidemic?