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Why would someone who survived lung cancer and currently has COPD not want to stop smoking?
@ Serene, just to let you know, I am referring to my 74-year-old mother, whom I live with and take care of. Don't assume things you know nothing about.
@ April, that is exactly what is going on with my mother right now. I don't know why you think it's unlikely just because it's different from your experience.
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- CraftylassLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
It's called addiction.
My aunt was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 68. She died two years later ... didn't pursue any treatments. She felt she won the gamble and she smoked four packs a day ... and literally smoked until her dying breath.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Same reason heroin addicts do not want to stop.
Addiction.
Nicotine is just as bad if not worse than heroin.
and nicotine addiction kills over 400,000 American smokers per year. Over 40,000 non-smokers in the same time.
It is amazing how addiction wipes away good sense and consideration for others. I'm a reformed smoker so it now makes me very ill to be around it.
- aprilLv 77 years ago
That's unlikely to happen.
my dad died of copd WAY before he could get lung cancer
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- FUS ROH DAHLv 57 years ago
It feels good to smoke. Plus, they survived lung cancer. Live life everyday like its your last. YOLO#
- Serene ELv 77 years ago
sigh......asked by someone who knows nothing about habits, addiction or the elderly.
