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How long do you have to smoke cigarettes before you get lung cancer?
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∙ 10y ago
Unfortunately there is no simple answer to this. Doctors have discovered it depends on your genes and other environmental factors as to how long before you are at risk.
Some people have a gene that means that they are very much at risk of developing lung cancer. This could mean that only 6 months worth of smoking will seal their fate. Others could smoke for 60 years and still not get it.
Remember that lung cancer can be caused by other things too. Not only smokers get it.
If you think to yourself that you can smoke for a year and then quit and never feel any effects from it - you are kidding yourself!
AnswerAs mentioned above the risk is heavily influenced by numerous environmental and genetic factors in addition to quantity and duration of tobacco exposure.The risk of getting cancer is stochastic, comparable to asbestos or uranium exposure, however working forwards from carcinogenicity and metabolism data (NNN NNK and NNAL, ignoring side-stream and secondhand smoke), I estimate that ON AVERAGE 30 cigarettes a day for 14 months, 20 cigarettes a day for 22 months, or 10 cigarettes a day for 41 months will produce a lung tumor. Lung cancer has a 85% chance of being fatal within 5 years.
There are a dozen other serious health problems that will occur even at lower dosages, including many other serious cancers. Technically only 0.0000004 cigarettes is considered "safe" to inhale (based on pollution standards). Second-hand smoke appears to be several times as dangerous, so it is likely those "one-in-a-million" smokers who live to see old age have done some serious damage to their friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and even pets.
I calculated this because I was curious about the toxicity of tobacco (looking for a biochemical way to reduce it, found none) after having witnessed the prevalence of cigarettes and cigars in Holland. About 40% of the students in their 20s (in the area where I stayed) were addicted to cigarettes and could not stop despite trying several times (paradoxically, legal cannabis use was 15%-20% and easy to quit). As a general trend, tobacco smokers and bystanders in their parents generation seem to come down with cancer in their 30s and die from it by their 50s. There also seems to be a very high incidence of emphysema even among non-smokers (confirmed, 2nd highest emphysema deaths in the world!).
AnswerSome people can smoke 40 cigarettes a day for 60/70 years & never get cancer. There is no set time frame for when cancer will occur or if you will get cancer. However it does increase your risk significantly of Heart disease & lung disease later on in life. Quit smoking for your own good.There is a very easy way to not get cancer.... ready for this?....... Dont smoke. :)
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It ain't quite as simple as that! Just about everything has been linked to one type of cancer or another - sunshine, skimmed milk, full fat milk, paracetamol, talcum powder, alcohol, fluorescent lighting, Vitamin K, caffeine, asbestos, radon gas, owning a colour TV, grapefruit, sex(!).....
Not smoking may significantly significantly reduce the risk but will not eliminate the risk entirely. The IARC (part of the World Health Organisation) lists nearly 1,000 carcinogens.
That's a load of complete and utter tosh. We are lead to believe that smoking causes 90% of lung cancer cases yet the average age of diagnosis of lung cancer is over 70. Whichs means that non-smoking lung cancer victims live to an average age of around 300!
As for the deaths of 'bystanders', of the 100+ studies on second hand smoke and lung cancer, only around 15% have produced statistically significant evidence (not proof). Some have suggested a statistically significant BENEFIT, particularly for children. The increased risk in the carefully cherrypicked studies is alleged to be 25%, which by normal epidemiological standards is effectively zero. And that is for 'spousal' exposure (i.e 24x7 in the home) over a period of decades.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 15y agoThere is no set amount of cigarettes to cancer ratio. Some people may go though there life smoking 20 a-day and still live to an old age, cancer free. The risk goes up with the more you smoke, people who smoke 20 a-day have more chance than a 10 a-day smoker.
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∙ 11y agoNot very long! About 10 a day will take about 40 months. The more a day, the lower the month.
Image if its 20 or 30 a day. Its really ridiculous, the stupid answer before. Your an idiot. Woooo one person lived to 93, millions are killed every year. The one comforting fact? It's their own stupid fault, I feel for the families and children, lovers, friends left behind.
Smokers want to try feeling something called empathy.
I have a lung cancer scare facing me-and I dont smoke. The people's smoke that I have been exposed to have been smoking for many years and they dont have cancer--I breathed in about -counting childhood-about 18 years--the last 6 have been torture because I have been trapped in an apartment building with poor ventilation with a smoker below me-moved-to have the management put one above me. I tried to have her moved to no advail, now I will suffer from it.
'Smokers want to try feeling something called empathy' wow-I have only found a couple of them out of many who actually have anything close to empathy.
Smoking is stupid, but then again it is addictive. The government isnt going to do anything because they get the tax revenue--so people will die and like me, maybe innocent people that never picked up a smelly cigarette.
Donovan Daniel
Just remember as long as your not smoking like more then two a day then you're fine, balance is key in doing most things, the only thing with cigarettes is you can never really know the harm of over indulging until it's too late. For example, booze. With booze it's different simply because you know when you drank too much when you feel nauseated or when you have a hangover, its a sign of over indulging. Do people still do it? Yes. Should they? No. But as long as you use these addictive substances respectfully and responsibly you're fine.
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∙ 15y agoThere is no number. Besides, after the first cigarette, you get addicted and smoke more. If there was a number, it would varry between people
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∙ 8y agoit takes about 200 to make you're lungs black
yes your lungs do black if you smoke
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∙ 13y agoI do not suggest smoking,But I believe it takes very many,as it can take many years of smoking to get cancer/disease
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∙ 16y agoany day now
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∙ 14y agoOne day...
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lung cancer, heart failier, tar blocks the arteries, blood cancer, mouth cancer
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yes, as long as you explain it is not real smoke if they confront you about it
If you smoke 5 cigarettes a week will it show up on blood test?
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In the 1900s where women allowed to smoke cigarettes in their own homes?
Yes, as long as it wasnt in view of gentlemen
Can inhaling cigar smoke kill you?
Not deadly, some people do. I would not recommend it. You certainly do not need to in order to enjoy the cigar. And yes, inhaling cigar smoke is nearly as bad for as as inhaling cigarette smoke .
Do cigarettes cause lung cancer?
by smoking usually when you smoke, it leads to congestion and is really bad for your lungs. you could die of smoking.......you prob. already know that......if u have more questions ask me on here ___________________________________________________________ A type of lung cancer in which the cells appear smallish and roundish. Also called oat cell lung cancer. It quickly spreads in the body and is one of the more aggressive forms of cancer. Most common cause of lung cancer is long-term exposure to tobacco smoke. The occurrence of lung cancer in nonsmokers, is nominally attributed to a combination of genetic factors, radon gas, asbestos, and pollutions in the air, including secondhand smoke.
