How can a woman who has smoked since age 16 (she's 74 now and still puffin a pac!


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How can a woman who has smoked since age 16 (she's 74 now and still puffin a pack a day) not have cancer?

or other issues? My mother in law has smoked since she was 16 and she is 74 and smokes almost 2 packs a day. I know cause we buy them for her daily. (not with our money, she too feable to go in the store).

She takes all kinds of heart pills, vitamin e, is on oxygen at night and during the day sometimes. I do not get how someone that has smoked that long and smokes 2 packs a day does not have cancer. She does have a collapsed left lung and copd and emphezyma, but that is it and still smokes. Goes to the emergency room once a month for "breathing problems".

My uncle has smoked since he was 15 and has had 1 triple bypass, has large cell lung cancer, his right lung has collapsed already, is only 46, and is in the hospital now to get cured of pneumonia that he has had for 2 months. I dont get it. People who get cancer must have to have the gene, what do you think?


Answers:

Yeah, some people are more genetically predisposed for cancer, but it's not the only factor. I think it's got more to do with something like the Chaos Theory itself. Some things go one way while other things go another way, even when placed under the same situations and conditions.

In any case, the likelihood of a person getting some form of cancer is much higher if (s)he smokes. You're literally playing with fire and taking your chances. While not guaranteeing that you will get cancer, you do guarantee at least a list of health problems later in life.




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