K so before I was born my mom smoked for about 40 years. Would that make my lungs weaker and make me more of a risk to get lung cancer?
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The smoke that went into her lungs would not affect your lungs while you were still developing within her. Cigarettes do deprive the blood of oxygen and there are innumerable things that can result of that in a growing fetus. Second-hand smoke, though, (after you were born) can contribute to an increase of a chance in lung cancer, asthma, allergic reaction, etc. Also, secondhand smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known cause of cancer in humans (Group A carcinogen). And you may not believe it, but secondhand smoke causes almost 50,000 deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States each year. I doubt that would make your lungs weaker, but as for being at an increased risk for cancer I would say definitely more than a child who was never around those who smoked.
2 :
No. How could her smoking affect your lungs before you existed?
3 :
No but your mother must have been about 55 when you were born if she smoked for 40 year before you were born? It is not prov en that smoking causes lung cancer, alcohol causes cirrhosis of the liver which kills, sunshine can cause skin cancer, eating red meat or fried foods can cause hardening of the arteries leading to a heart attack, lack of exercise can cause high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. My grandfather died of lung cancer and never smoked, my father died of stomach cancer and smoked for 65 years, I am a heavy smoker and have smoked for 30odd years and after blood tests i am fit and healthy although I have an under active thyroid glad, not caused by anything. We are all born with cancer cells in our body and occasionally they get activated and cause cancer, it can happen to anyone. Does your family drive a car? the exhaust fumes are worse for us than smoking.
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No. And there's no way to tell, since that depends on how much you smoke, and chance. But typically people start getting lung cancer from smoking after the age of 50. Most smokers don't get it at all.
5 :
You aren't at greater risk as long as you don't smoke. And, take figures of how many people die from smoking or second hand smoke for what they are - unsubstantiated rhetoric usually stridently voiced by anti-smokers. Smoking is NOT healthy and DOES contribute to worsening many diseases and I wish I had never seen a cigarette.
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