Why do so many people smoke although most of them know that it's the leading cause of lung cancer?
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Have you noticed that almost everywhere you go you see a glowing neon sign on the door that advertises cigarrettes?\nHave you seen the posters of a happy couple with those things in their hands and their teeth are purley white?Have you seen a bunch of cool guys hanging out with their friends on these posters and doing the same thing as the others?And have you noticed how the warning labels are always pushed off to the side and mabye even need a magnifying glass to read it?The companys who make these awful things do it on purpose.They make it look fun or cool on  the posters and in the magazines and almost everywhere!When people start,they think they can just have one and quit...no!Eventually there doing them so long that its too late.They cant help it.Their hormones become so high and their need for those things grows until they cant stop.The componies know this.This is why when the old buyers die or become ill or quit,they just advertise them to younger generations so they can sell more and more.People know that it harms them its just that they cant help it.Because of all the chemicals in it,\nit becomes addictive.To stop,people need a lot of support!\nThey need comfort and understanding or everything turns out into an angry mess.To quit they try some medications or even some who are lucky just quit on their own. :D\nHope this helps!
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Each year, a staggering 440,000 people die in the US from tobacco use. Nearly 1 of every 5 deaths is related to smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined. \n\nCigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is a major cause of cancers of the lung, larynx (voice box), oral cavity, pharynx (throat), and esophagus, and is a contributing cause in the development of cancers of the bladder, pancreas, liver, uterine cervix, kidney, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemias. \n\nAbout 87% of lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women, and is one of the most difficult cancers to treat. It is very hard to detect when it is in the earliest, most treatable stage. Fortunately, lung cancer is largely a preventable disease. Groups that promote nonsmoking as part of their religion, such as Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, have much lower rates of lung cancer and other smoking-related cancers. \n\nBut cancers account for only about half of the deaths related to smoking. Smoking is also a major cause of heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema, and stroke, and contributes to the severity of pneumonia. Tobacco has a damaging affect on women's reproductive health and is associated with increased risk of miscarriage, early delivery (prematurity), stillbirth, infant death, and is a cause of low birth weight in infants. Furthermore, the smoke from cigarettes has a harmful health effect on those around the smoke. (Refer to the American Cancer Society documents "Secondhand Smoke" and "Women and Smoking.") \n\nBased on data collected from 1995 to 1999, the CDC estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking. \n\nBut not all of the health problems related to smoking result in deaths. In the year 2000, about 8.6 million people were suffering from at least one chronic disease due to current or former smoking, according to the Center for Disease Control. Many of these people were suffering from more than one smoking-related condition. The diseases occurring most often were chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.\n\nThere were about 163, 500 cases of lung cancer death in 2005.  About 87% are from the result of cigarette smoking.
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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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check out www.thetruth.com fpr all your second hand smoke and smoking ?'s . \n\n Fact \n Every 8 seconds, someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease. \n About 90% of lung cancer deaths among women who continue to smoke are tobacco related. \n Smoking during pregnancy results in the deaths of about 900 infants every year in the U.S. \n Because of the tobacco industry’s products, about 339 people in the U.S. die of lung cancer every day. \n In the U.S., about 440,000 people die a tobacco-related death every year. \n Today, in the U.S., tobacco products will kill about 1,200 people. \n On its website, one tobacco company lists “cancer services” as one of the community programs they support. Yet they continue to make a product that leads to 339 deaths from lung cancer each day. \n Cigarettes and other smoking materials are the number one cause of fire deaths in the U.S. \n In 1985, one tobacco vice president said in reference to smoking-related deaths, “People die in their beds, therefore, should we ban sleep?”
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They smoke because they hate themselves and want to die. Isn't this why all of those who smoke do it?
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No, maybe just people don't want to breathe in 2nd hand smoke. Smokers can go harm their own lungs no problem.
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Many people get these spots due to smoking. Due you smoke?? That could be the answer.
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I don't know exactly what the chances are that you'd get cancer from it, because that can depend on a variety of things. The risks are there though. My uncle died from lung cancer, so did my old neighbor friend. To be honest, I'd just try to quit if you can.
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I know a lot of people who smoke. There are more that do than you can imagine.  Although I don't, I equate its use with achohol, and should be used with similar care.\n\nit can alter your judgement, slow your reflexes, and cause problems for others , that's for sure.  Get behind the wheel after getting high, and you are a risk to those around you.  \n\nAs for dying from smoking pot..  uh I suppose there are some who have, especially if they were allergic to THC, and got large quantities in their blood stream.  Not sure though, but it seems likely, someone has died.\n\nEating pot is a likely way to really make one uncomfortable for long periods, and can cause mind altering experiences, that could lead to someone doing something 'stupid' maybe?  ANYONE???\n\nDoubt it causes any more cancer than cigarettes, and although it is not a Cure for cancer, there is anectdotal evidence that it can help to quell certain symptoms thereof.  The smoke has cancer causing agents, this has been proven, but people (no one I know) don't smoke nearly enough comparative to cigarettes, to make it a pure lung cancer threat albeit any inhalaion of smoke is bad for you.
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You have small, fine hairs in your nose and lungs as a filtration system to keep anything unhealthy from getting in. Unfortunately, the hairs, to do their job, are very moist and sticky, like fly paper. Eventually, there is a build up of waste, and you sneeze (nose) or cough (lungs) to clear it out. Then you grow new hairs and start again.\nThis is why smokers are constantly coughing. And why they get lung cancer when they've overloaded their lungs filtering system.
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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. Very much so. And I'm a smoker. I do not smoke in public, around children, or around pregnant women. It is MY choice alone to die of cancer. Not theirs. I do not defend smokers in ANY way. Smoking is a dangerous habit that I wish I could control and quit. Unfortunately, I can't seem to stop. I've been a smoker for 18 yrs. and I will NEVER tell another human being to deal with MY habit in public because I have the right to smoke. They have more of a right to breath and to live with out being wrongly affected by me. I smoke in the privacy of my own home. I apologize for those smokers who do not get it, that WE are the offenders. Keep it up guys...maybe smoking will be banned.
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Tobacco use is responsible for more than one of every six deaths in the United States.It causes over 390,000 deaths in the united states alone. Its the #1 preventable cause of death in the u.s. Incidentally, there is no hard data indicating second hand smoke to ANY detrimental health effects. Food for thought...
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I took a look, and noticed on the kids section the following, which said that passive smoking caused:\n\n"Increased risk of coronary heart disease. \nA 10-30% increased risk of lung cancer for non-smokers who are exposed to passive smoking over long periods of time."\n\nThis is complete nonsense. There is no scientifically verifiable evidence linking passive smoking with either coronary heart disease or lung cancer: on the contrary, the largest study ever conducted with a sample of over 35,000 non-smoking spouses of smokers, by scientists from the Universities of Califonia and New York, found that there was no statistical evidence ot suggest these non-smokers (in a study which ran from 1959 to 1998) suffered greater mortality rates than non-smokers generally from either coronary heart disease or lung cancer at any time or any level of exposure.\n\nSince when did the Roy Castle Foundation engage in blatantly misleading, scaremongering propaganda?
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I am not sure this is a question exactally...more like you are just frustrated!\nI am a non-smoker, and my husband is a smoker.  I know that smokers know the health risks - I think everyone does!  I guess that people want you to quit because they care about you.  I think that most smokers think "oh it won't happen to ME!"  Just like anything else....people NEVER think something is going to happen to them - or the health risks won't affect THEM!\nbut to be honest....I want my husband to quit, and I tell him that a lot.  I think that in some ways for him it is a selfish act.  Does he want to die of lung cancer and leave a wife and young children behind?  does he want to have health complications and not be able to live the life he wants?  I want him to quit because I care about him and our future together....\nMaybe thats why people bug you about it too....not to nag at you, but to let you know they want you around and smoking can hinder your life - even if YOU think it will NEVER happen to you.....
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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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That's a very low risk, I would say (cutting out the cigars would help) but a lot of this is genetic - some people drink and smoke all their lives and never get cancer and some people eat organic food, never drink, never smoke and get cancer.  It's the way it is.  However, you'll be less likely to get cancer if you live a healthy lifestyle.