Question 1

quitting smoking and lung cancer risk reduction?

Accepted Answer

Recent New England: Journal papers demonstrate that quitting before age 35 reduces your risk t never smokers, but quiting at any age up to 65 (they didn't have data beyond that) markedly and significantly redced risk and mortality. Quit.  Never start.  Don't allow the tobacco thugs to profit from your suicide.

Question 2

quitting smoking and lung cancer risk reduction. what are the odds?

Accepted Answer

Better: Quitting improves them. Work with family physician towards comprehensive wellness. It's important to understand there are numerous disease that smoking will increase risk. Per lung cancer, there are some online resources to help calculate risk: http://goo.Gl/divhj and http://goo.Gl/r9ita.

Question 3

is there a lower cancer risk smoking american spirits?

Accepted Answer

Lower than what?: Cigarette smoking causes lung and other cancers.

Question 4

obviously, no amount of smoking is ok, but from a statistical point of vew, how much smoking dramatically increases cancer risk?

Accepted Answer

: Approximately 1 cigarette/day!!!  Risk goes up proportionally thereafter.  Lots of other considerations as well (genetic predisposition, air pollution, work environment,) but tobacco use is the one that is most amendable to fixing

Question 5

what can i put in a wooden pipe to create the illusion that i am smoking tobacco, without the cancer risk?

Accepted Answer

Never zero risk....: Actors use herbal cigarettes and pipes that  to simulate smoking without using tobacco.  When you do this, you avoid the addiction potential of nicotine, and you avoid the many carcinogens found in tobacco smoke. 
Clover flowers, marshmallow leaves, and rose petals are often the ingredients. Inhaling or puffing smoke of any kind, however, may carry an unknown cancer risk.

Question 6

can smoking weed give you the same cancer risk as smoking cigarettes?

Accepted Answer

Smoking: Smoking of any substance irritates tissues everywhere it touches. So while cannibus is not tobacco, there are still risks associated. Some studies have shown that many folks smoke cannibus in addition to tobacco. If that's the case, it's a double whammy.

Question 7

if im able to quit smoking cigarettes within the next year will my cancer risk return to that of a nonsmoker? im about to turn 25

Accepted Answer

Close to it: quitting will improve your overall prognosis.  And what if it isn't 100% better? Is that a reason not to do It?  No!

Question 8

hi, i have been smoking for more or less 5 years an average of 5-6 cigarettes a day. now i stopped since 1 year. do i have a high lung cancer risk?

Accepted Answer

Interesting: Check this smoking study:Results: There were 37,078 women in the analytic cohort. Compared with the never smokers, former smokers had an elevated lung cancer risk (relative risk, 6.6; 95% confidence interval, 5.0 to 8.7) up to 30 years after smoking cessation for all former smokers
http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/21/5/921.abstract

Question 9

is there a particular cancer risk for males with a healthy lifestyle (no smoking, not overweight) if their mothers were diagnosed with breast cancer?

Accepted Answer

N o: We still do not know all the facts on risk. I do not know of any special risk for you.

Question 10

what is meant by there is no safe level of exposure of second hand smoke? does this mean walking past a couple of people smoking for a couple of minutes will increase lung cancer risk? or is it to do with asthma and lung cancer is regular exposure?

Accepted Answer

: Cigarette smoke is carcinogenic. Second hand smoke even more so as it is unfiltered. Yes, all exposure is cumulative.However the scenario you described indicatess significantly limited exposure, and does not warrant concern.

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Is there a particular cancer risk for males with a healthy lifestyle (no smoking, not overweight) if their mothers were diagnosed with breast cancer?

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