Monday, October 20, 2008

What is the minimal age for lung cancer death caused by secondhand smoke

What is the minimal age for lung cancer death caused by secondhand smoke?
Also, how long after being around a heavy smoker does it take for lung cancer to develop? (my 14 year old friend lives with his grandma, a smoker who refuses to quit... but he doesn't smoke himself. even so i am a bit worried)
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4 hours
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don't know
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There simply isn't enough data to give such a specified answer. I would simply avoid it as much as possible.
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The youngest on record is about 17 day old baby. The woman smoked the whole time she was pregnant and the baby dies after it was born.
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Bunch of hooey, if it is so dangerous then why hasn't the gov. banned cigs, oh yeah, because they make money off of them.
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there is no "minimal" age and there is no proof anyone ever died from second-hand smoke. Did you know that around the '60s almost everyone smoked?? So by your reasoning (and the stupid anti-smokers and governments) most if not all the kids during that time should be dead already. They lie like they lied about Marijuana just to brainwash all the gullible people. Your brother and you have a better chance of getting cancer from the food you eat. #1 cancer killer? Colon cancer, NOT lung cancer.
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It takes years, but I've heard of a 30-year-old who got lung cancer. Tell him to ask his grandma to go outside to smoke, or at least open all the windows. In Australia there is a $110 fine for smoking in a car with children under 18.
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The second hand smoking causing cancer correlation has not been fully proven. The reports on this all point to a few studies that proved mostly inconclusive or biased. The original studies have been skewed to fit personal and political agendas in the recent times. More than likely, your friend is fine so long as he doesn't smoke the things himself or shotgun with his grandmother. The bigger concern is smelling like cigarettes all the time.
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It depends on the persons predisposition to developing cancer. Just because he lives with her and she smokes it is not a death sentence. Tell him to keep his bedroom door shut and his windows open. If she smokes in the car leave the windows open etc. *Hannah your an idiot! States have made it illegal to smoke in public places and (in my state) it is illegal to smoke in a car with anyone under 18. Smoking in homes is considered by DHHS as a health risk and is being considered for becoming a 'reportable event' for children with disabilities and respiratory issues.
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no proven facts or data to suggest age of death from second hand smoke, as others have said there is no correlation. they are being very paranoid, mind your own business.
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Do you have 100% proof that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer? No there is no 100% proof but for people that are heavy smokers who may develop lung cancer, whether it is due to smoking or not, don't usually get it till they are about 60. I wouldn't worry about your friend getting lung cancer, then again you or your friend could get leukaemia, bone cancer, skin cancer, throat cancer or lots of other cancers that have nothing to do with smoking but to do with the individual person or from exhaust fumes from cars, does your parents have a car? Living within 500 metres of a bus station can make a child six times more likely to develop cancer and found that exhaust fumes were a major cause of cancers such as leukaemia and lymphoma. Other high-risk spots included living near hospitals or train stations. I wouldnt worry about your friend getting lung cancer

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Who and Where is this person that claims praying to Mary McKillop cured her of inoperable lung cancer

Who and Where is this person that claims praying to Mary McKillop cured her of inoperable lung cancer?
I mean do we just take her word for it? I'd like to hear from her Doctors and see some Evidence that a prayer to a dead nun can cure you of inoperable lung cancer, before and after xrays would be good.
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If cancer is healed by Divine intervention, it is God himself who reaches down and heals......not Mary McKillop or any other human being!
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The approved miracle, which involved the healing of a woman with cancer during the mid 1990s after she prayed to Mother Mary, had to be scientifically and theologically assessed before it was decreed by the Vatican. The above is a section I Googled from an Australian newspaper and seemingly the scientific tests have been carried out before the Vatican could call it a Miracle - miracles do happen, 43 years ago I had a terrible accident just before my 10th birthday and I was in a coma for 8 days and my parents were told I would never waken up and only had days to live, they operated and family was told nothing more could be done, my mother prayed to St Martin who at that time was Blessed Martin, she soaked me in holy water and prayed, they were told I would be dead within 1 hour - I woke up and I had no side affects and eventually got married and had children and now grandchildren, so miracles do happen if you have faith?

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

How often do you have to smoke tobacco in order to get lung cancer

How often do you have to smoke tobacco in order to get lung cancer?
For example, how much does an average person have to smoke to get lung cancer (one pack a day for 10 years? one pack a month for 40 years, etc.) I need this information for a school report I'm writing on the affects of various drugs, so please provide links to anywhere you might have gotten your facts from, thanks!
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There is no pat answer to this question. Every person is different in what their body will tolerate. This has been a tobacco co. promotion point because some celebrates like George Burns smoked cigars all his life and lived to be 100. On the other hand, John Wane was taken all too soon and was very public about tobacco being the cause.
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The average smoker doesn't get lung cancer -- the chance is somethinge like 1 in 18. However, It takes 10 pack years -- that's one pack a day for 10 years, half a pack for 20 years, etc. -- for the risk to become significant. The figure is from an oncologist here.
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90% of lung cancer patients have smoked. It is impossible to predict the amount one person could smoke before he/she gets lung cancer. The best thing to do if you do smoke, is to inform your self on the symptoms of lung cancer. That way it is possible for you to catch it early enough. Lung cancer is treatable but the fact is the earlier it is caught the the more the survival rate increases. If you like to look at the symptoms of lung cancer, a website i find very helpful is listed below.

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