How does smoking for 5 years in your early twenties effect your chances for lung cancer?
405326
Smoking at anytime effects your risk for lung cancer. But then again breathing nowadays does with all of the pollution and stuff in the air.
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P Lung cancers tend to spread very early, and only\n15% are detected in their early stages. The chances of early detection, however, can be improved by seeking medical care at once if any of the following symptoms appear:\n• a cough that does not go away\n• chest pain\n• shortness of breath\n• persistent hoarseness\n• swelling of the neck and face\n• significant weight loss that is not due to dieting or vigorous exercise\n• fatigue and loss of appetite\n• bloody or brown-colored spit or phlegm (sputum)\n• unexplained fever\n• recurrent lung infections, such as bronchitis or pneumonia However, these symptoms may be caused by diseases other than lung cancer. It is vital, however, to consult a doctor to rule out the possibility that they are the first symptoms of lung cancer. If the lung cancer has spread to other organs, the patient may have other symptoms, such as headaches, bone fractures, pain, bleeding, or blood clots. Early detection and treatment can increase the chances of a cure for some patients. For others, it can at least prolong life.
320034
Ok, here's the deal...\n\nWhen you smoke, the nicotin and another substances that tobacco contains mingle with the chemistry of your lung cells, changing their functions and live processes.\n\nWhen you smoke frequently, the chemistry in your cells is so tampered with, that they start multiplying like mad, obstructing the healthy lung cells.\n\nThat´s lung cancer.\n\nOh, and when you smoke, the lung cells also start to die, beyond repair, reducing your capcity of breathe, wich also reduces your lifespan. I know that for a fact that my granny died of that :-((.
419047
ok first off...your 15 and he's 16 and you both smoke? yea thats your first mistake..its bad to smoke at 30 much less 15 when your lungs arent near as strong..first you gotta stop smoking..are you selfish to ask him to and for you to keep doing it..YES..as long as you do, he's going too..As for what you can do..Nothing really..Just be there for him..Lung cancer is a tough and usually unpleasent thing..But its not necessarily an immediate death sentance..Just be there and be supportive..AND STOP SMOKING..STOP SMOKING EVERYTHING
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sure there are....\nLet's see... you can get either Lung cancer, Cancer of the Mouth, Cancer of the Larynx, Cancer of the Esophagus, Cancer of the Bladder, Cancer of the Pancreas, Cancer of the Reproductive Systems (and if your a guy... you'll have a slight chance of becoming impetent) and/or other cancers and all you have to pay is probably over $2500 for the increasing rate in which cigarettes/cigars are sold!\nAND if that isnt enough for you, let's add to the fact that smoking can increase your risk of getting coronary heart diseases, emhphysema, chronic bronchitis, acute myeloid leukemia, arteriosclerosis, stroke, and/or other diseases. \nALSO, a decade of your life will be wasted and your body will be in poor health by the time you reach the 40s (assuming you're not already there) because smoking also affects your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.\nPHYSICAL effects of smoking can cause your skin to wrinkle faster than nonsmokers, bad breath, yellowing teeth, and etc. \nThe person above me pretty much described smoking during pregnancy and secondhand smoke so I'm not going to go there...\nSO... my answer would be "yeah... you get tons of shit and all your doing is throwing your life away"\n\nplease note that my answer is sarcastic (for those slow people out there...) but the facts are facts... they're true!\n\nP.S.- Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death out there... and yet it kills more people than suicide, homocide, car accidents, AIDS, alcohol, and illegal drugs COMBINED. Keep that in mind...
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I guess we can get rid of the social cancer by having everyone smoke weed. Since THC causes the cells to age much faster than normal, they don't live to long enough to become cancer. Therefore, if everyone smokes weed, no lung cancer and no social cancer cause they will be KOOL and HIP!!!
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The 'hazard ratio' of anything (death included) is virtually the same concept as the relative risk. For example if smoking causes lung cancer in 5/10 ppl (50%), but 1/10 nonsmokers get lung cancer (10%), then our 'hazard ratio' or relative risk of getting lung cancer for a smoker = rate in smokers/rate in nonsmokers(controls)\n       = 50% / 10%\n       =5.\nOr smokers are 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to develop lung cancer. Hope that helps:)
43036
depends on how long you smoked but probably never doesnt mean you shouldnt. dont make things worse; a million other side effects besides your lung damage will be avoided.
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Long term, yes, it is definitely bad for your lungs, especially if smoked in the form of a joint.  There's really no consensus as to whether or not it's worse than cigarettes or not, because virtually no one smokes as much weed as smokers smoke tobacco.  Some carcinogens are more abundant, others more scarce.  Plus most tobacco has flavorings that create extra carcinogens.  A lot of weed heads smoke from a bong/water pipe, and that will lower toxins, and likewise some tobacco users will use a hookah which does the same.  Then there's the issue of how long you hold it in your lungs, etc.  Long story short, you can't be sure if it's worse than tobacco or not, but it sure as hell isn't good for your lungs, and I've known weed heads that were just as phlegmy and gross as your run-of-the-mill chain smoking cigarettes smoker.\n\nToxicity of the THC itself is very, very low.\n\nAmong the most sited claims for the problems with THC are the reduced sperm count (which I've generally heard is a transient, short-term effect), and the supression of the immune system which makes you more susceptible to sickness (which I've also heard is transient).  I hear a lot of arguments on both sides, and have even heard some people try to say that it boosts your immune system.  the problem is that most people who study the matter have an agenda, and hence they aren't entirely honest.  Worse still is the fact that no one is eager to report their use of an illegal drug, so you never know if you're getting honest statistics.\n\nI'd wager that a bigger problem than either of those is taht it will make you lazy and give you the "munchies," which means you can suffer weight gain and a sedentary lifestyle from extensive use of marijuana, which will cause serious healthproblems.\n\nThen there's the question of loss of short term memory.  It seems that the real loss of short-term memory is in the fact that you don't form memories as clearly *while* you're under the influence, and the drug stays in your system for a long time.  Hence, you will go a couple of days not remembering what happens quite right. I've not seen any eveidence of extensive loss of short-term memory function well after use of marijuana (but then, I'm no health professional).  As for it turing you into an idiot, I can't really say I believe it.  I've known a lot of surprisingly intelligent weed heads, and far to many for me to think it alone makes you dumb.  I'd wager that stupid people often have less to lose, and hence they are more likely to not care about the laws, and thus be more likely to use marijuana to begin with.  My guess is that it depends on what you do while you're high.  Some people do vapid an pointless crap, like watch a lot of Tv.  In that case, the issues in your mental acuity are probably the result of spending so much time doing nothing of any intellectual worth.  Others will do things a bit more mentally stimulating, like talk about philosophy, watch challenging movies, write poetry, play music, etc.  These seem to be the same people, in my experience, that are still incredibly bright despite use of marijuana.  I knew one guy in college who was extremely sharp, and actually used to do his engineering homework while baked--though this is very uncommon, since most people I've talked to say that reading when you're high is next to impossible.  I also knew someone who had about a 3.9 GPA at Berkeley, and would write his essays while drunk--and while I can't comment on the effects of trying to read or wrtie high, I can imagine trying to write drunk, and that sounds very difficult given my experience with drunkeness.\n\nAll in all, I think the worst problems with marijuana are the following: 1) it causes extreme paranoia.  This can precipitate schizophrenia in those predisposed to schizophrenia, and it becomes so intense in some that I have commonly heard this as a reaso
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If you smoke the same amount, probably weed will be worse for you. It has no filters, unless you use a bong or something and since it gets you high, it increases your chance of getting involved in an accident.\n \nBut of course most ppl will smoke far more ciggarettes than joints over an extended period of time, so you rarely hear of ppl getting cancer or other deseases due to weed. And cigarrets are cheaper.
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Tobacco smoke contributes to a number of  cancers.\n\nThe mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. \n\nThis can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs \namputated.\n\nTar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.\n\nChanging to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.\n\nCarbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart  work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.\n\nSmoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain put on your body by smoking often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.\n\nLung cancer from smoking  is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.\n\nHeart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers. \n\nSmoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack. \n\nSmoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease. \n\nIn younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.
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In 2004 in the US there were 173,700 new cases of lung cancer and an estimated 160,440 deaths from lung cancer. Of those it is estimated that 87% are caused by smoking. Some 3,000 people die of lung cancer a year from second-hand smoke.\nI would expect that everyone who was diagnosed with lung cancer spends some time in hospital and so does everyone who dies - nice big number, isn't it?
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age 56..smoking 40 years...started when i was 16...yea i have tried to quit many times..smoke 2-3 packs a day..of course smoking affects my health...short of breath...chest pain..double bypass
70801
I think you mean this: I am 17 and have been smoking for 3 years and have cancer,if I stop smoking will I stop having cancer? If that is what you mean then no,stopping smoking will improve your overall health and will make cancer treatments easier on your body but once you have cancer the only treatment is radiation and chemotherapy. But I do advise you to stop smoking.
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you can get cancer at any age whether you smoke or not! Passive smoking (IE breathing in somebody's smoke) is just as bad as doing it yourself. The best thing to do is don't start or give it up NOW! It takes years for your lungs to get back to normal!
74463
Some people smoke until they are 90 without any ill effects. Those people are in the minority. You have a pretty good chance of coming down with some smoking related illness if you smoke that long.
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i think something society completly oversees is how powerful our minds our. Mind over matter. If you ever experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, you will quickly realize this. Now though your on the right track with quitting by the half life of the radiation particles that is in tobacco last 30 years or so. So your chances of getting lunger cancer are very very high right now even though you quit.\n\nCheck out this article about some very interesting things you could be doing to help you now that you quit. \n\nCongrats by the way.