Is the world biased about smoking?

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So this is just one true fact of probably many circumstances:

In my parents direct family line (which is very old) I have had 3 - Uncles get lung cancer.  They passed on at ages 72, 78, and 87.  Of the three only one was a smoker, he was the only one to live to 87 but people just keep talking like how if the smoking uncle had quit he would've lived forever.  They don't notice that the other two uncles never smoked and got lung cancer and passed away even sooner.

Actually it seems quite apparent to me that most people do this.  Never and non-smokers get terminal illnesses all the time and well its, "Just too bad" but when someone who smokes gets one of these its, "because they smoked".  Is the world biased about smoking?

**Just to throw even more into the mix**
Below are stats from government health officials. (Sticking to the facts not the “statistically believed”)
- 158,683 people died from lung cancer 
- AT LEAST (probably more than) 60% of lung cancers diagnosed today occur in those who either have never smoked or quit smoking in the past.

%0.005 of US population affected by lung cancer or (1 in 1904)

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2007/2007WorldPopulationDataSheet.aspx
(07 population) http://lungcancer.about.com/od/whatislungcancer/f/lungcancerdeaths.htm

The national cancer institute study says:
"the lung cancer death rate for black males was more than 36% than for white males"....."even though the peak prevalence of smoking among black males in that cohort never achieved that of white males"..."The reason for this disparity in lung cancer death rates is not clear. Differences in smoking behavior other than prevalence may play a role, such as the type of cigarette smoked".(pg 95)

Graphs on pg 99 show increases in lung cancer rates with a large decrease in smoking rates among black & white males. "As smoking rates converged for white & black females in later cohorts, lung cancer deaths rates remained the approximately equivalent"..."despite lower smoking rates among black females, may AGAIN suggest a lung cancer risk that is NOT attributable to smoking."(pg 108).

Yet on public media they claim the science is clear?

http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/1/m1_3.pdf

There is ONLY ONE oldest living person in the world - Isn't it odd that that person was a smoker?
The oldest living person ever recorded – smoked from 21 to 117 yrs old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

Joe Chemo · Accepted Answer

Yes, the whole world with all its doctors and scientists is wrong. You are the only one who is right. Doesn't that make you feel special? Well the greater likelihood of course is that you are the one who is biased about smoking, due to your longtime heavy drug habit and being in denial about the harm that comes with it.

And lung cancer is only one of many ways tobacco can kill you. Heart disease accounts for about the same number of tobacco deaths, and pulmonary diseases (emphysema, chronic bronchitis, etc.) only slightly fewer.

Mark · Answer

Perhaps.  But using your definition, the world is biased about rapes and racist rants, too.

You sound like you're trying to justify smoking.  It's fine if you want to smoke, but don't try to make it seem like it's necessary like breathing or eating.

Anonymous · Answer

You don’t always die from tobacco
Sometimes you just lose a lung

? · Answer

I don&#x27;t like you. Going around ******* commenting on your beliefs about smoking is just as bad as commenting about your religious views. If you don&#x27;t have anything relevant to say, please just keep your mouth shut. Why don&#x27;t you get off this site and sit on a street corner and yell about your beliefs.

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