How long smoking to get cancer?

Answer 1

This varies widely from person to person depending on their current health, the amount the person smokes, and many other variables. Typically cancer would develop after many years of smoking, but it does greatly increase the chance of developing cancer early.

Answer 2

There's no fixed cutoff -- most smokers never get cancer at all. But figure it starts to get risky after about 20 pack years -- that's 20 years of smoking a pack a day, 10 years of smoking two packs a day, 40 years of smoking half a pack a day, etc.

Answer 3

This question has no real answer. First not everyone who smokes will get cancer though 90 percent of lung cancer is smoking related, second people develop cancer at different rates, so one person could develop cancer after a year of smoking , someone who smokes may never develop cancer. Also, there are several other factors that determine if you will develop cancer including the amount of carcinogens you are exposed to, age, genetics and environment factors. It should also be noted that tobacco is a known carcinogen (cancer causing agent) and greatly increases your risk for developing cancer.

Answer 4

There is no simple answer. Some people smoke their entire lives and never get lung cancer. Others who have never smoked at all end up with lung cancer.

This last answer is quite true, but also if you intake high doses of antioxidants from fruit, vegetables, green tea especially, pomegranate juice, acai berry juice, these antioxidants fight free radicals that destroy cells in the body that create cancer. For example, in Japan, their are lower rates of lung cancer even though the frequency of smoking is much higher per capita. Why is this? Because they drink large amounts of green tea, which contain high amounts of antioxidants. Also, I was a smoker and quit, because it felt like when you smoked you were playing Russian Roulette, except there were more bullets in the gun, than if you were not smoking....

Answer 5

It takes a while.

Usually, a person would have cancer after like 15 years of smoking, then, the person would die three years later.

The whole process actually takes about 18 years and 2 months.

Answer 6

Smoking does not mean that you will automatically get lung cancer any more than driving a car means you will be in a car accident.

It increases the chances but it is not inevitable.

Answer 7

Many. The risk increases gradually.