or other issues? My mother in law has smoked since she was 16 and she is 74 and smokes almost 2 packs a day. I know cause we buy them for her daily. (not with our money, she too feable to go in the store).
She takes all kinds of heart pills, vitamin e, is on oxygen at night and during the day sometimes. I do not get how someone that has smoked that long and smokes 2 packs a day does not have cancer. She does have a collapsed left lung and copd and emphezyma, but that is it and still smokes. Goes to the emergency room once a month for "breathing problems".
My uncle has smoked since he was 15 and has had 1 triple bypass, has large cell lung cancer, his right lung has collapsed already, is only 46, and is in the hospital now to get cured of pneumonia that he has had for 2 months. I dont get it. People who get cancer must have to have the gene, what do you think?
2007-06-29 02:00:16 · 9 answers · asked by Bubba Sparks 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
um ruby unicorn is a big time smoker or used to be, lol
2007-06-29 02:17:38 · update #1
By the grace of God.
It's so hard to explain really. It's wierd how someone who has never smoked a cigerette in their life and dies of lung cancer before turning 40.
It's as much of a mystery as a pro athletic star dying of a heart attack.
2007-06-29 02:05:53 · answer #1 · answered by stvmatnic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My own father has smoked since he was 15 and is going on 50 himself, and he is still very physically active. My own opinion is that the human body is an intricate and unbelievably hardy creation. Some people more than others can do things that many cannot do at all. You may look at some rock stars and wonder how they've done drugs all this time and can still be well.
A more tangible answer may be that she's just 'puffing' the cigarettes. If she started smoking in the teen years it was likely to develop an image or to fit in, so she may have always been smoking aesthetically. It is certainly still unhealthy, but it would help explain how she's made it so long.
2007-06-29 02:31:42 · answer #2 · answered by dks531 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you have debunkified one of the big smoking myths!! There has never been positive proof that smoking causes cancer!! The same as second hand smoke, the claims are completely bogus!! There are always other factors that are in play. Chemical exposure, processed foods with things in them that we can't even pronounce, and so on. I knew a man who was 87 years old when he died and he had smoked 2 packs per day of non filtered cigarettes since he was 12 years old, and he even went through WW2. Smoking does cause other lung problems too though, I will admit that. The emphezyma and copd, but as far as cancer, no. If you work in a factory or live near a factory, or drive through thick traffic all of the time, that air is 20 times more toxic to your system than cigarette smoke!! But they do not want you to know that. And please, as some would like you to believe, she is not just "lucky" It is the truth that they do not want you to know because it defeats their purpose of banning it! Also, if you look at it as a whole, most of the people who never got cancer from "cigarettes" are the older population who lived when there were not processed foods, or heavy polution and things like that. That is why it never affected them. It is not the smoke from cigarettes, it is all the other crap that we ingest and breathe! One more thing, flouride and chlorine are really big known carcinogens, yet we drink it everyday in our municipal water supply!! Think about it and you will see the truth!
2007-06-29 02:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by RubyUnicorn 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no "1" cause of cancer. What determines your individual risk is what combination of negative and positive factors are present. Obviously, smoking is a big negative factor, but on the other hand, you could have a very strong immune system that fights the oxidative activity that leads to cancer activity. There are positive AND negative genetic factors to cancer (and other diseases) as well, but even genetics is not a given. You can overcome (or delay) your genetic predisposition to just about anything with other lifestyle factors.
2007-06-29 02:57:06 · answer #4 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luck and the right genes and environmental factors I guess. My mom is 67 and has been smoking since 12 and all that's wrong with her is osteoporosis and possible "moderately advanced emphysema", oh yeah and on and off high cholesterol (85 lbs 4'11???) She says the emphysema thing is bull becase she is never short of breath....hmmm...
I don't get it either. She was by my dad's side when he was 64 and died of cancer, quit for months and then started again.....makes no sense to me either.
2007-06-29 02:09:51 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This doesn't mean she can smoke. This is stinking thinking, to be sure.
This happens but, not that often, people sometimes get by but, has her life smoking been that good, what other problems with her health could point to cigarettes?
2007-06-29 08:24:33 · answer #6 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mother in law is extremely fortunate. A miracle.
2007-06-29 02:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Marley Kyle 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Im sure her lungs are filled with tar from the cigarettes. there so black their blue black.
2007-06-29 02:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by Matthew M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lucky lady
2007-06-29 02:07:49 · answer #9 · answered by hunniiuk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋