Is it true that male smokers only have 17% chance to develope lung cancer?

Russian roulette: The risk of lung cancer in smokers is higher by 10-30 fold compared to never smokers depending on duration and quantity. Lifetime risk in heavy smokers may be as high as 30%. Now, these are just numbers, the fact is that smoking has no redeeming virtue, it will increase the risk of cancer and cardiopulmonary disease, cost money, and make somebody "unkissable". Why do it?

Not just cancer: While the risk may be "only" 20-30% that's actually pretty high- 1 in every 3-5 smokers. But even if you escape cancer, having chronic lung diseases happens to almost all smokers, and it's no picnic. Feeling like you're gasping for breath every waking second is a miserable existence.

Smoking beyond: Age 35 conveys a 50% risk of dying of smoking associated malady - cancers, heart and lung disease. Only 14% get lung cancer, increasingly other cancers (h&n, bladder, kidney, pancreas)+copd, pvd, cad, heart failure. And, quite diffiuclt to stop when you think you can. Smoking is an idot's delight, does nothing good, risks your life, stinks, expensive. Why?