If smoking causes cancer , then why do people live long lives?!
Question: My grandmother lived way past her seventies smoking like a frieght train, but managed only to have a cough that was defininely from smoking.
Answers: My grandmother lived way past her seventies smoking like a frieght train, but managed only to have a cough that was defininely from smoking.
What did she die from? Whatever it was must have been the way she was meant to die and not from cancer.
some ppl r lucky?
Smoking MAY cause cancer, it's not automatic. So it depends on how fast the cancer is taking over in the body. Some people die of other causes before the cancer progresses enough to be fatal.
Also a healthy diet and spirit can slow or eliminate the effect cancer risk.
My deceased wife never smoked a cigarette in her life and she died at 43. Who knows why smoking affects most people with cancer and not others. Your grandma is one of the lucky ones.
If she had not smoked maybe could have lived to her 90's or more.
Shortens life; yet some people are lucky and don't get cancer or sick from it.
It's not about luck. It's about genetic markers.
For instance, when you go to the doctor, they ask you if a condition runs in your family, right? Well, heart disease, certain cancers (with an exception of cervical, which is caused by certain strands of the HPV virus), and certain pulmonary illnesses tend to run in families.
Now, just because your grandmother lived to be a ripe old age although she smoked doesn't necessarily mean that YOU will. You still have your parents to consider, both of your grandfathers, and the remaining grandmother.
Smoking doesn't mean that you will get cancer, and not smoking doesn't mean that you won't. Smoking can, however, increase your chances for getting cancer if you have a genetic marker for it, though.
I hear you. My little niece told me recently that she was never going to smoke because she wanted to live as old as "old grandma," my 93 year old grandmother. I said, honey, old grandma smoked 2 packs of filterless cigarettes a day for about 60 years. She only stopped because her eyesight and reflexes got so bad that she kept lighting things on fire.
FYI, she also was quite an alcoholic, and is still living to this day, as feisty as ever.
I know what you mean. I have a 77 year old friend who has smoked since he was16 and hasn't gotten cancer. He is almost deaf and can hardly see or walk, though (he broke his hip 3 years ago and it won't heal even though he's had a titanium rod put in). His first wife died at an early age of leukemia and his last wife died of breast cancer. His father died at 91 (also smoked and drank everyday), his mother died a few years ago from brain cancer and his brother died of a heart attack. Maybe smokers are here to keep the population down. jk
A doctor told my step dad that smoking does not calls cancer but if you have cancer it will speed it up....
smoking may not be good for you. think what happens is smoking causes cells to mutate, and they turn to cancer.