Originally posted by Liney I read a rather interesting paper a couple of years ago that was published by John Hopkins I think. It basically concluded that, with the exception of one or two very specific types of cancer, the chances of you contracting any other form were down to pure bad luck. And let's be clear, being exposed to a material classed as a carcinogen will only increase your chance of cancer. Exposure does not guarantee anything! I've read of people who have lived in areas of naturally occurring asbestos for decades with no issue, smokers in their eighties and nineties without lung cancer, and yet if you get the diagnosis everyone immediately tries to work out where they got exposed to something and sue people.
My father started smoking at 13. He quit at 100.5 yo because nobody in the home had time to take him out to smoke.
I smaoked as many as 3 packs of English Players (Think Export A but not as raw tasting) until I quite 20 odd years ago (with extreme difficulty, I may add). My lungs are clear. My wife has never smoked, but lived with smokers all her life until I quit and suffers from COPD.
If I remember the odds correctly 1 in 4 is susceptible to lung cancer and 1 in 4 is immune.
My favourite lawyer joke:
You know its cold outside when a lawyer has his hands in his own pockets.
Ducking and running.