The last smoker in my life has FINALLY decided to quit - now that she's diagnosed as terminal

[Numo]

Rick-o wrote:

The tobacco industry and their lobbyists are very powerful. You will never see tobacco outlawed.

A friend of mine pointed out that if tobacco were newly invented, the FDA (or whoever has responsibility for approval) would NEVER approve it.

[OWC Jamie]

smokers stink

[MartyStickle]

I smoked from birth to 18, when I went off to college.

Parents both had cancer related deaths years after finally stopping.

[Lew Zealand]

Smoking kills only about 1 in 7 lifelong smokers so most lifelong smokers will not die from lung cancer, heart disease, or any other complications from smoking. Individually it's not the primary factor in killing a person who smokes but the cumulative effect on the population of smokers is what's so catastrophic. There aren't many things a person can do out there which claims the lives of 1 in 7 users.

[DeusxMac]

Lew Zealand wrote:
Smoking kills only about 1 in 7 lifelong smokers...

Source for this statistic?

"Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year"

Remember, lung cancer is not the only cigarette-related cause of premature death.

"The major causes of excess mortality among smokers are diseases that are related to smoking, including cancer and respiratory and vascular disease."

And just because a smoker lived to 82 or 87...

"Life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers."

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statist.../index.htm

[Lew Zealand]

I'll try to find it. I heard it on a podcast which spends the time to get their sources and interpretations of statistics like this correct.