What about chronic pulmonary diseas and lung cancer>?
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What about it?  Both are conditions that will affect your life severally, and may end it, would not recommend either of them.  Giving up smoking will reduce your chances of suffering from either.
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A small one.\n\nDIE OF LUNG CANCER
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It means that there is a spot in the lungs. That report by itself does NOT tell the cause of the spot. Often not cancerous and can be due to infection or scar tissue. Further testing usually needed to determine if cancer or not.
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lung cancer\nheart deceases\njust stop smoking, no other way, all other therapies and stuff have for only aim taking ur money
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NO, smoking has been linked to lung cancer no matter what ammount you consume.
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http://images.google.com/url?q=http://st.fatih.edu.tr/~mkocali/cigarette/Pictures/Lung_Black.gif\n\nhttp://www.besttreatments.co.uk/btuk/images/lung_cancer_xray.jpg\n\nhttp://drjohng.com/images/lung_cancer.jpg
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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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Yes there are, and the human Lung, is not capable of tolerating any type of smoke. Cigarettes lead in Lung cancer though due to availability, and use. Ganja, though widely used is still not as popular, or used as often as Tobacco. Ganja is actually worse for your lungs than Cigarettes. Almost 5 times worse. So it is very possible to contract Lung cancer from smoking Ganja.\n\nLithobid
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The combinations of being stressed out and smoking are two big risk factors for infections and many illnesses.  Being stressed out lowers the effectiveness of your immune system so that it is easier for you to get an infection.  At the same time, being a smoker makes people more prone to chest infections.  This is because the lungs contain something called cilia, microscopic, finger-like projections in the lungs that help move mucus that contains debris and other things like bacteria that has been inhaled.  When someone smokes, the chemicals in the cigarette basically paralize the cilia so that they cannot move the mucus and bacteria up out of the lungs.  This is why smokers get what is known as smoker's cough.  It is their body trying to get rid of all the nasty stuff that has accumilated in their lungs.  \n\nSo, you have two risk factors against you, the stress and the smoking.  Next comes bronchitis and possibly pneumonia.  After that, your lung cells are at risk of mutating and becoming something between normal cells and cancer cells.  At this stage, you can still stop smoking and your cells can go back to a relitively normal state and your cilia will be active once again. But after lung cells have changed to cancer cells, they cannot be changed back but only distroyed to prevent more cancer cells.  I would very much so recommend you stop smoking.  It may seem in the short run that it is helping you cope with stress, but in the long run it is causing you more by allowing you to get so many chest infections and other problems in the future.  \n\nI know this all seems harsh, but it is the truth.  Better you find out the truth so that you can stop things from happening to you before they do.  I hope everything goes well for you.\n\nAnother thing, taking antibiotics too often can cause the germs in your body that do survive to become resistent to the antibiotics.  This can basically create a super germ that antibiotics can no longer kill, and if that germ multiplies, well then you have a stronger germ that can't be killed by antibiotics.  It also makes you more prone to germs in hospitals.  Some doctor's have been known to give out antibiotics way more than neccisary, so I recommend you to read the article i have provided in the sources below.\n\nEDIT: it seems to me you should go see a phyciatrist.  I know there are certain stresses out there that are unavoidable, but being able to talk to someone and possibly getting on a medication that can help calm you might help out.  And everytime you pick up a cigarette, try to make yourself think of some of the things I have said, mainly that the cigarette is making you more stressed in the long run and that you would be way more stressed out than you are now if you had pnemonia or lung cancer on top of all of that.  Best of wishes to you.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a general term for a group of diseases that cause progressive damage to your lungs. These diseases include chronic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema. Of the more than 16 million Americans with COPD, nearly 3 million have symptomatic emphysema and millions more are in the early stages of the disease before signs and symptoms appear.\n\nUnlike asthma, which occurs when the muscles in your airways tighten, emphysema causes a loss of elasticity in the walls of the small air sacs in your lungs. Eventually, the walls stretch and break, creating larger, less efficient air sacs that aren't able to handle the normal exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.\n\nWhen emphysema is advanced, you must work so hard to expel air from your lungs that breathing can consume up to 20 percent of your resting energy. Unfortunately, because emphysema develops gradually over many years, you may not experience symptoms such as shortness of breath until irreversible damage has already occurred. Treatments focus on relieving symptoms and avoiding complications.\n\nreduced capacity for physical activity, both of which are likely to become worse as the disease progresses. In time, you may have trouble breathing even when lying down, and it may be especially hard to breathe during and after respiratory infections, such as colds or the flu.\n\nOther signs and symptoms of emphysema include:\n\nChronic, mild cough. You may produce sputum or phlegm when you cough. \nLoss of appetite and weight loss. It's a vicious cycle. Emphysema can make eating more difficult, and the act of eating can rob you of your breath. The result is that you simply may not feel like eating much of the time. \nFatigue. You're likely to feel tired both because it's more difficult to breathe and because your body is getting less oxygenWhen you inhale, air travels to your lungs through two major airways called bronchi. Inside your lungs, the bronchi subdivide like the roots of a tree into a million smaller airways (bronchioles) that finally end in clusters of tiny air sacs (alveoli). You have about 300 million air sacs in each lung. Within the walls of the air sacs are tiny blood vessels (capillaries) where oxygen is added to your blood and carbon dioxide — a waste product of metabolism — is removed. The air sac walls also contain elastic fibers that help them expand and contract like small balloons when you breathe.\n\nWhat happens in emphysema\nIn emphysema, inflammation destroys these fragile walls of the air sacs, causing them to lose their elasticity. As a result, the bronchioles collapse, and air becomes trapped in the air sacs, which overstretches them and interferes with your ability to exhale (hyperinflation).\n\nIn time, this overstretching may cause several air sacs to rupture, forming one larger air space instead of many small ones. Because the larger, less-elastic sacs aren't able to force air completely out of your lungs when you exhale, you have to breathe harder to take in enough oxygen and to eliminate carbon dioxide.\n\nThe process works something like this: Normally, you exhale in two ways, actively and passively. When you exert yourself and need more oxygen, your chest muscles contract, forcing air out rapidly. On the other hand, when you sit quietly, your diaphragm contracts and your chest muscles expand to take air in, but your muscles don't actively contract to let the air out. Instead, the elastic tissue around your air sacs contracts, and your lungs passively shrink.\n\nBut if you have emphysema, many of these elastic fibers have been destroyed, and you must consciously force air out of your lungs. The forced exhalation compresses many of your small airways, making expelling air even more difficult.\n\nMost common cause is smoking\nCigarette smoke is by far the most common cause of emphysema. The damage begins when tobacco smoke temporarily paralyzes the microscopic hairs (cilia) that line you
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If your children are to die of lungs cancer for being negatively smokers, will u keep in your work.\nAnother would be: do u like the picture of the horse (like in the advertisment of Marlboro) walking alone without his rider while the rider died with a lungs cancer?
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the most commmon type of lung cancer is bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, however there are several kinds.\n\nI think however, that you are referring to \n"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"\nwhich translates to mean a disease of the lungs resulting from the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust -- usually from industrial pollutants.  This also happens to be the longest word in the English language. (hold your cursor over the word to see the entire spelling --yahoo only shows part for some reason) \n\nThe dictionary defines it as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word" There are strong indications that the word was coined by puzzler Everett Smith in 1935 as a hypothetical long word that could result from the protraction of medical terms. The actual name of the disease is pneumoconiosis, which is 14 letters long.\n\n...didn't expect such a long answer did you?  I suppose its only fitting for such a long word...lol.
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A LONG TRAIL OF EVIDENCE LINKS CIGARETTE SMOKING TO LUNG CANCER\n\nAs someone who’s life has been touched by the tragic effects of cigarette smoking, I was saddened last week when the Supreme Court barred the FDA from regulating cigarettes. About 48 million adult Americans smoked cigarettes last year, according to the CDC. That’s one in four people, a fact that astonishes and alarms me. Why? Because this year an estimated 180,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States, and 90% of them will die within three years -- and 96% of these cancer victims are cigarette smokers.\n\n\nIs there a cause-and-effect connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer? Two years ago, I wrote my first columns for the Post Dispatch, explaining the scientific evidence that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, and that cigarette smoking is addictive. If these two points are indeed true, then cigarettes , so much a part of American life, are in fact an addictive deadly drug! In the hope of encouraging readers to urge congress to act, I am reprinting these columns. In today’s column we will follow the trail of evidence that proves clearly that smoking causes cancer. In next week’s column I will examine the evidence that smoking tobacco is addictive.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOINTING THE FINGER AT CIGARETTES\n\n\nThe long trail of evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer has its beginnings right here in St. Louis, at Washington University’s School of Medicine. In 1948 a young first-year medical student, Ernst Wynder, witnessed an autopsy of a man who had died of lung cancer, and noted the lungs were blackened. Curious, he looked into the background of the patient. There was no obvious exposure to air pollution, but the man’s wife revealed he had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for thirty years! Like a dog with a juicy bone, Wynder had found a puzzle that would occupy him much of his professional life, and despite much controversy, he never let go of it.\n\n\nOver the next two years, Wynder doggedly reviewed records to see if there were other cases linking cigarettes and lung cancer. He found that many lung cancer patients were smokers. Interviewing lung cancer patients and "control" patients with other cancers, far more cancer occurred among the smokers. Early in 1950 he published his results in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Comparing 649 lung cancer patients with 600 controls, he found lung cancer an incredible 40 times higher among smokers, with the risk of cancer increasing with the number of cigarettes smoked.\n\n\nLater that year, Richard Doll, a well known British scientist, reported an even more convincing finding linking smoking to lung cancer. Over a period of years, Doll had interviewed quite a large number of physicians, inquiring of each about their smoking habits -- then waited to see which ones developed lung cancer. Overwhelmingly, they were the smokers. Because it was not "after the fact", Doll’s test of the smoking causes cancer hypothesis was particularly rigorous and powerful. From that day forward, the scientific case linking smoking to lung cancer has been clear-cut.
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Emphysema\nEmphysema is one of two major lung diseases that make up COPD. The other is chronic bronchitis.\n\nEmphysema is usually diagnosed in smokers or ex-smokers (most often 50 to 75 years of age) with shortness of breath, both at rest and during physical exertion. People with emphysema may cough but their coughing isn't usually severe and does not produce much mucus. Breathing, on the other hand, may be difficult.\n\nIn severe emphysema, even very simple activities can bring on shortness of breath.  \n\nLike chronic bronchitis, emphysema, in most cases, is believed to be the result of long-term irritation or infection of the bronchial tubes. The inflammation gradually blocks the airways.\n\nIn emphysema, this blockage traps air in the tiny air sacs found at the end of the bronchial tubes. These air sacs (called alveoli) are where carbon dioxide and other waste gases in the blood are exchanged for oxygen taken in by the lungs from the air. \n\nEventually, the walls of these air sacs stretch out, become stiff instead of elastic, and break down. The lungs themselves become larger and don't exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide as well. In severe emphysema, even very simple activities can bring on shortness of breath.\n\nSmoking is the main problem for most patients with emphysema. It must be stopped if the patient is to be helped
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There is an Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency that is a genetic protien deficiency that casues non smokers to have emphysema. It is very rare but i have had some patients with it as a respiratory therapist. Basicly at 40 your lungs look and act as if you have smoked for 50+ years \ntwo of the patients that i cared for had to have whole lung lobes removed
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not sure if it is directly related to lung cancer as there have been no studies or real studies onthe direct coralation between the 2lots of things can cause lung cancer and many people that smoke marijuana usually smoke cigarettes so we cant say it does cause cancer but it does have some carcinogens.yes it does help reduce nausea and fever some nerve pain and other things
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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.