i know lots of people this has happend to they stopped smoking but ten years later they get lung cancer
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cause you caused the  cells to mutate in to canserus ones. when you smoked
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Although you have no genetic history, a history of smoking does put you at a more risk level for lung cancer.  Studies have shown that second hand smoke may actually be worse than smoking.  So, by already smoking in the past, you've already exposed your lungs to the carcenigens is tobacco.  Continuing to expose yourself to secondhand smoke puts you at even more risk.
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There are so many things that smoking does to the body. The really sad fact is that it does not just hurt the smoker. It really does effect all persons around them. \nA smoker has increased risk of respiratory and vascular complications. Smoking actually creates a tar substance in the lungs and decreases the persons capacity to take in oxygen. Also smokers veins and arteries are constricted from chemicals in the cigarettes. This puts them at a higher risk for blood clot causing stroke.\nMothers who smoke when they are pregnant usually have smaller babies. A nonsmokers umbilical cord (which supplies nourishment to the baby) is usually about wide as a roll of quarters and the smokers umbilical cord is about as thick as a pencil. \nChildren who grow up in the home of a smoker are at higher risk for developing asthma and/or allergies. They can develop lung cancer just as easily as the actual smoker can. Not to mention that growing up with parents who smoke puts them at higher risk for becoming smokers themselves. \nI have a grandfather that smokes. He is eighty. The last several years he has been on oxygen. He wakes up at night because he can't get his breath. He has a barrel chest because that is what your body does to try and help you get more oxygen. Your lungs try to get bigger so they can take in more oxygen because the cigarettes have destroyed portions of the lungs over the many years of smoking. Some people would say he has made it to eighty and that is a long time for a smoker to live. You have to keep in mind that most of his family lived into or close to their 100's. They say that every cigarette takes five minutes off your life. There is no telling how long he could have lived if he had just been able to stop smoking. \nYou may not be able to talk him into quitting. Maybe you could talk him into atleast not smoking in the house and changing his clothes before holding the baby. This will atleast help the people who have to live with this be a little healthier. Good luck to you!
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Yes, although I was a former 3 day a day smoker, I now find it smells horrible.  Worse, I am allergic to it.  I get ill if smoke blows my way.  I once was in the car with a chain smoker I was dating.  I started having chest pains and went to the hospital.  They said it was due to the smoke and that if I had not breathed this medicine they gave me, my chest pains would have continued (indefinitely??).  why should I have to spend time and money and fear cause someone else wants to smoke when I try to live a healthy lifestyle.\n\nI had breast cancer 15 years ago and several of the women in the waiting room were victims of lung cancer (which is always fatal) who had never smoked.  Their husbands had smoked.  The issue was good and people had already voted down issue 4 once before...plus they were trying to make it a constitutional amendment to allow smoking in some places against the will of the majority who already said no the first time.
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i believe it was lung cancer.
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Dont do it, i stopped in january after 40 years of smoking, the damage is done and god knows how much money has been spent.\nYou won't look cool, you will smell, you will lose your taste and thats only the start......\n\nKEEP AWAY
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I think everybody has missed the point here; smoking causes lung cancer, and oh-yeah, kills people.\n\nYou do what you feel comfortable doing but get this kid to stop.  As a smoker for 20 years, and spending 150 bucks a month on it-I can tell you, I wished somebody had intervened in my life.\n\nHe may pissed now but when he's older, has a family, and not smoking around them, or having them worry about his health, he'll look back and thank you
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Just FYI Pancoast tumors aren't always cancerous.  I know someone who just had one resected, and it was found to be fibrous tissue.  No cancer.  He didn't smoke either.
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Non smokers tend to think they are better than smokers. They seem to think that cancer will never get them because they don't smoke. Not true. They are just being self-righteous a-holes. Just write them all off as pompous self righteous a-holes and be done with it.
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DO YOU SMOKE???EITHER WAY YOU NEED TO HAVE A CHEST X-RAY FIRST AND FORMOST THEN IF CANCER IS RULED OUT TRY FOR ATHSMA,ALLERGIES,CRONIC COUGH,ETC..DONT WAIT I CANT STRESS THIS ENOUGH I HAD A FRIEND WHO THOUGHT HE WAS "JUST SICK" SAME STORY AS YOU ...HE HAD CANCER AND ONCE THEY FOUND IT IT WAS TOO LATE..I HOPE THIS ISNT YOUR CASE.SEE YOUR DR.
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Cancer has been linked to smoking, however people who do not smoke or use tobacco also get cancer.  None of us can guarantee that you will or will not get it, even if you had never smoked.  However this is not something that you should spend any time worrying about, because, like it or not, we all eventually die.  Smoking does cause a lot of health problems other than cancer, and it is a very good idea to quit now before you become addicted to it and cannot.  If I could go back in time and never have started using tobacco, I would do so.  If you cannot put your mind at ease about this, see a doctor and get a chest x-ray.  Just try not to worry, because worrying causes health problems too.
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well it is true the child would end up with health problems such as lungs and breathing problems and it is more danger on the child than the one who is smoking.
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First teh AHA primarily deals with heart disease.  You may be refering to the American Lung Association, which deals w/ lung ca.  I work in the largest and perhaps best cancer hospital in the world, and do research on cancer (but not lung).  I think everyone should look at the evidence about what causes lung cancer.  Sure, everyone knows a story about such and so smoked their whole life and didn't get ca.  However, smoking definately promotes lung ca, there is so much evidence for this.  Further, lung ca has increased recently, in correlation with worsening air pollution.  Essentially all you can say is, well, I'll smoke and if i get lung ca, so be it.  But know that your chances for getting ca soares, something like 30 fold above non-smokers.  And lung ca is very very difficult to treat, because it presents everywhere, and it's refractory to treatment.  But you shouldn't feel like health professionals are telling you what you can and can't do.  But because of research we know the mechanisms that increase susceptibility to lung ca, and smoking is the major one.
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maybe they smoke too much
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That's because chewing tobacco never gets to the lungs.\nNicotine causes the addiction but not the cancer. What causes the cancer is all the other crap that tobacco companies mix in with the tobacco to make the cigarettes and cigars taste better and burn better. I have read that the American Native people who smoke only dried tobacco leaves have a very low incidence of lung cancer.\nOf course today we also have all the wonderful polution in the air from chemical plants and car exhaust plus the pollution of the water by chemical plants who produce chemical fertilizers for golf courses and farms and people's lawns. Smoking is only one way to get lung cancer. My next door neighbor never smoked a day in her life but died of lung cancer. She used to commute to New York City everyday for many years because that was where she worked. Sucks doesn't it?\nLL
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Definitely. But you could also get a totally different type of cancer. Anyone can get cancer whether they smoke or not. The risk of getting cancer and being unhealthy is far greater if you smoke. One of the problems with smoking is that it involves your lungs. When a person has cancer, no matter which part of the body it might occur in, one of the areas that cancer can spred to is the lungs. Smokers will suffer more side effects if they have cancer. Struggling to breath can be painful.\n\nPeople with cancer have the best chances of fighting cancer if they are relatively healthy, have clear lungs, no secondary disease, excercise regularly, and eat healthy foods.  You cannot be relatively healthy if you are a smoker . . so you will always be at a higher risk.\n\nSmokers Lung\nhttp://www.csmngt.com/smokers%20lung.jpg\n\nHealthy Lung/Smokers Lung\nhttp://www.lungcolorado.org/images/ble_big.jpg
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my mom took my friends to her work at the nursing home and showed them people their age with tubes in their throats because of it affecting their breathing, another the result of an auto accident while smoking.\nshe then would give them something the could munch or drink ever time the habit kicked in.\nfor others second hand worked till they were weaned off.\ngood luck.