If not why do some people get it and some people don't?
2007-02-22 08:34:00 · 8 answers · asked by Alie 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
No, not all smokers get cancer, at least not during their natural lifetime. However, compared to the risk of non-smokers, your risk goes up dramatically. What most people don't realize, is that your risk of heart disease goes up dramatically also. Since heart diease is more common to begin with, more people die of heart-related illnesses as a result of smoking than cancer.
2007-02-22 08:46:58 · answer #1 · answered by Cycman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on one immune system. But,cancer isn't the only thing one can get from smoking and some can be worse. People who smoke also have other problems.
Knowing today the health risks of smoking and the expensive, anyone that smokes doesn't have a high level of Grey Mass in my view.
2007-02-22 18:55:42 · answer #2 · answered by wild4gypsy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
inevitable smoke cancer
2016-01-31 23:55:40 · answer #3 · answered by Maryjane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correlation doesn't necessarily mean causality. Because the chemicals that are found in smokes are related to caner, doesnt mean one can say smokes are the cause of cancer.
Depends on the amount you smoke, family history, diet etc...
I smoke personally, it's a nasty habit, we should all quit.
2007-02-22 12:13:01 · answer #4 · answered by John L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, smoking doesnt definitely cause cancer but it is linked with it it also depends on the type of person you are my grandparents have smoked for 50 years or so and they are fine
2007-02-22 08:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking greatly increases your chances of getting lung cancer. I recently had a good friend die of lung cancer - it was such an awful death, and one in which I hope very few people, none would be better, would have to ever experience.
2007-02-22 11:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
On a long enough timeline, YES.......but there are smokers who have smoked for 30+ years with no cancer.........but the amount of toxins and carcinogens in your lungs by that point is scary........it all has to do with your own bio physiology, and how strong your immune system is.
smoking is good for NO ONE
2007-02-22 08:38:38 · answer #7 · answered by eralku 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some smokers get lung cancer or throat cancer or tongue cancer of cancer of the esophagus or heart attack or, as with me, a stroke................smoking gets you one way or another.
2007-02-22 10:13:09 · answer #8 · answered by NATIVE NEW YORKER 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋