Can we please get something straight?

Question

There has never been one solid link to connect smoking with cancer. If you know of just one chemical that links tobacco with cancer then please tell me as there are billions of dollars on offer to anyone that can. So to all you gifted people out there either put up or shut up. The truth is that one has more chance of getting cancer if one doesnt smoke. Read the Lancet and learn We all know that there probably is a link but at the moment we don't know what it is. So unless you can speak with some authority then please keep quite Smoking has no connection with cancer. Other respiratory systems however are affected.

Answer 1

You will fit in nicely in hell.

Answer 2

If this is how you make yourself feel better about being a smoker - then who are we to argue? But if I were you, I would honestly do a little more researching on the subject before posting a definite "opinion". Perhaps it's not the TOBACCO content, since tobacco in it's own is natural. Perhaps you should research the chemicals added to cigarettes that CAN lead to or cause cancer. Bury your head in the sand and say "it won't happen to me all you want". I'll say a prayer for you.

Answer 3

It's not so much the tobacco it's the other additives that are put into a cigarette that cause cancer. I am now 16 days smoke free and it's driving me nutz! I have smoked since being 13 and am now 50! I only stopped smoking to join a friend who is having an operation in a fortnight and she needed help sticking to it! We both joined the Activestop site for help and in all the junk they make you read it stated that it isn't tobacco that is the main problem!
I also show you a copy from my Activestop diay to prove what they say.

Answer 4

I think you are being very naive or just plain stupid.

The greater number of people die of smoking related heart disease, that's what killed my father at 64. The next greatest killer conected to smoking is lung disease, including lung cancer, but you mustn't rule out stomach cancer as well.

Cigarette smokers have a higher risk of developing several chronic disorders. These include fatty buildups in arteries, several types of cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (lung problems). Atherosclerosis (buildup of fatty substances in the arteries) is a chief contributor to the high number of deaths from smoking. Many studies detail the evidence that cigarette smoking is a major cause of coronary heart disease, which leads to heart attack.

Below I quote Dr John Gorrod, Prof of Toxicology at Britain's University of Essex.

"Smoking is nasty, dirty, anti-social and dangerous if it is done with a high enough level of intake and often enough....

The most likely toxic substances are likely to be the aromatic hydrocarbons and the nitrosomenes. These either working alone or in conjunction with any other chemical can cause cancer. For that reason we shouldn’t smoke...."

Answer 5

In your question you say there is probably a link, then you go on to say smoking has no connection with cancer. Which is it? The truth is smokers have a much higher chancer of dying prematurely often from cancers caused by smoking.

Answer 6

I can see where you are coming from. But as a philosophy student, I can tell you this. Science can NOT give any causal links to any phenomena in the world. I know this sounds radical, but its true. But this does not hinder our lives from taking place. We still go on as per normal, and work as IF science has been able to prove things. The reason why science cannot prove law or theory, is a long discussion which I will not go into now. You might want to read into it though. David Hume, would be a good start.

Anyway, the point I want to make, is that even if science cannot prove a causal link, scientific research has proven a statistical link. The chance is higher. And you yourself admit that. But if you want something totally logically infallible, thats impossible. I know thats what your question is asking for. So Im telling you, you wont be able to get any such answer, that can prove this causal link your asking. All science can prove, is what you already know.

Answer 7

I will be sure to let my sister read this when she comes out of ICU. She was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. The doctor stated that her smoking for 40 years is the cause. She has 6 months to live.

Answer 8

Why are tobacco companies - that is, the very producers of the substance you're talking about - putting notices on packs of cigarettes that state clearly "Smoking increases the risk of cancer"?

Would they advertise against their own product unless this was the truth, and they were obliged by law to display the risks associated with smoking?

You are boldly making a statement that makes you look ridiculous.

Answer 9

have had breast cancer have also been a heavy smoker for the last 20 years nothing to do with smoking just bad luck! I lost my mum last christmas she was a very heavy smoker and liked a drop of brandy, she was 85 years old but she died suddenly nothing to do with smoking or alcohol. i dont think 85 is a bad age was out shopping with her two days before she died, yes all you non smokers give us a break!!

Answer 10

Only problem is, to prove you wrong, more people have to die. When you die, go visit my uncle. It's a wonder out of all my relatives, he's the only one to have had lung cancer and, coincidentally, the only one to have smoked a pack a day since he was 12.

Read and learn my a**... many people in this section of YA! are living it.

Answer 11

Compared to nonsmokers, men who smoke are about 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer and women who smoke are about 13 times more likely.
Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% in women.
The 2004 Surgeon General's report adds more evidence to previous conclusions that smoking causes cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, lung and bladder.
Cancer-causing agents (carcinogens) in tobacco smoke damage important genes that control the growth of cells, causing them to grow abnormally or to reproduce too rapidly.
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of esophageal cancer in the United States. Reductions in smoking and smokeless tobacco use could prevent many of the approximately 12,300 new cases and 12,100 deaths from esophgeal cancer that occur annually.
For smoking-attributable cancers, the risk generally increases with the number of cigarettes smoked and the number of years of smoking, and generally decreases after quitting completely.
Smoking cigarettes that have a lower yield of tar does not substantially reduce the risk for lung cancer.
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of developing mouth cancers. This risk also increases among people who smoke pipes and cigars.
Reductions in the number of people who smoke cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and other tobacco products or use smokeless tobacco could prevent most of the estimated 30,200 new cases and 7,800 deaths from oral cavity and pharynx cancers annually in the United States.


I don't give a damn if you going to kill yourself by smoking cigarette, just don't take us down with you.