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What is the percentage of smokers get lung cancer or emphysema?
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15-17%: About 15-17% of smokers develop lung cancer or emphysema. About 85% of patients with lung cancer have been exposed to significant amounts of cigarette smoke.
Answered 2/4/2020
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Getting and dying...: Sir richard peto the epidemiologist estimated that those who continue to smoke after age 35 have a 50% risk of dying of it...Heart, disease joins lung failure and cancer in the chest, but with each day more links to tobacco and many other cancers. My number is 14% of smokers get lung cancer. Smoking is addictive. Tobacco companies hate to admit this.Quit, never start, get help.
Answered 2/4/2020
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