Does everyone who smokes get lung cancer?? - Smoking Cessation Message Board

SuPeRMaN5 · 02-17-2001, 08:32 AM

Does "everyone" who smokes get lung cancer? I don't smoke alot maybe 3 cigarettes a week, when I'm out with my friends. I swim so it's not like I just sit there and don't use my lungs either, I keep my lungs in shape.

ruffeo · 02-17-2001, 04:58 PM

hmm... cigs are a major cause of lung cancer, but to say everyone who smokes cigs get lung cancer... no.

richardthelionhearted · 02-17-2001, 05:51 PM

You could probably smoke three cig's a week for the rest of your life, and never have any health complications at all.

But You won't.

Either you'll get addicted (like the rest of us did) and smoke enough that it does cause health problems (not just lung cancer, either), or you'll get smart and quit now while it painless for you to quit.

If you really like pain, though, get addicted and try to quit. Or just get yourself a hammer and whack your thumb about 25 times a day. It's a lot healthier.

ruffeo · 02-18-2001, 11:45 AM

If your asking this question because you want to quit, then, hell yeah smoking causes lung cancer! It stunts growth also! Makes your teeth brown, your finger nails brown. It's nasty, quit, today!

plymouth · 02-18-2001, 12:32 PM

Most people who get lung cancer were smokers.

Most smokers will never get lung cancer. Smokers mostly die from heart disease, strokes and respiratory diseases like emphysema.

Most of the bad health effects of smoking are associated with smoking ten or more cigarettes a day.