November Is Lung Cancer Month: Know The Latest Information About This Deadliest Of Cancers

Fear Mongers.
Doesnt sound like they are very bright, look at there success rate.?
"The five-year survival rate for lung cancer has increased slightly over the last 30 years. In the mid-1970s the rate was 13 percent, as compared to the latest statistics which find the rate at 15.6 percent for the years 1999 - 2006.(8)"
With all the money they have you would think they could do better then that.! Oh wait, I forgot they spend most of it on padding there already large paychecks, and or bogus scientific studies.

Only a nickle out of every dollar goes to research.
Smoking is down 69% and SHS is down 75%. Yet all the so called smoking diseases keep on going up, some as much as 500%.
Cancer is the biggest money maker for the doctors, hospitals and drug companies. Why would they want to find a cure.
Here is and article of what they are doing to the kids.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-122...

Wednesday Oct 28 | Posted by: roboblogger

Bill Wyman quits smoking over health threat
Full story: Ireland.com

The musician, who played bass guitar in the rock band "The Rolling Stones" from 1962 until his departure in 1992, had been a heavy smoker for decades.

ps Tobacco smoking is one of the two causes of global warming. The other cause is pot smoking. Quit smoking now. Save the Earth!!!

A whole month now instead of just the "Great American Smokeout" day? I wonder which day of the month they will tell us there is very little point in quitting as the most serious conditions are irreversible anyway, and that you still can't pass a drug test to gain employment if you are on a nicotine replacement drug.

http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/atlas8.pdf

Smoking Facts and Tobacco Statistics

1) There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.

2) China is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute.

3) Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis.

4) Five trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately 2 billion pounds.

5) It's estimated that trillions of filters, filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke, make their way into our environment as discarded waste yearly.

6) While they may look like white cotton, cigarette filters are made of very thin fibers of a plastic called cellulose acetate. A cigarette filter can take between 18 months and 10 years to decompose.

7) A typical manufactured cigarette contains approximately 8 or 9 milligrams of nicotine, while the nicotine content of a cigar is 100 to 200 milligrams, with some as high as 400 milligrams.

8) There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, with the remainder being burned off.

9) Ambergris, otherwise known as whale vomit is one of the hundreds of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.

10) Benzene is a known cause of acute myeloid leukemia, and cigarette smoke is a major source of benzene exposure. Among U.S. smokers, 90 percent of benzene exposures come from cigarettes.

11) Radioactive lead and polonium are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke.

12) Hydrogen cyanide, one of the toxic byproducts present in cigarette smoke, was used as a genocidal chemical agent during World War II.

13) Secondhand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemical compounds, 11 of which are known to be Group 1 carcinogens.

14) The smoke from a smoldering cigarette often contains higher concentrations of the toxins found in cigarette smoke than exhaled smoke does.

15) Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of 3,000 a day in the U.S., and 80,000 to 100,000 a day worldwide.

16) Worldwide, one in five teens age 13 to 15 smoke cigarettes.

17) Approximately one quarter of the youth alive in the Western Pacific Region (East Asia and the Pacific) today will die from tobacco use.

18) Half of all long-term smokers will die a tobacco-related death.

19) Every eight seconds, a human life is lost to tobacco use somewhere in the world. That translates to approximately 5 million deaths annually.

20) Tobacco use is expected to claim one billion lives this century unless serious anti-smoking efforts are made on a global level.

Tobacco offers us a life of slavery, a host of chronic, debilitating illnesses and ultimately death. And think about it: We pay big bucks for those "benefits." Sad, but true.

Take your life back!

If you're a smoker wishing you could quit, make your mind up to dig your heels in and do the work necessary to get this monkey off your back now.

You'll never regret it.

Thank you Terry Martin!

ANNUAL DEATHS FROM SMOKING VS. OTHER CAUSES IN THE U.S.:(As of 2000)
This has obviously increased drastically.
Smoking - 468,000 deaths annually
Alcohol - 107,000 deaths annually
Microbial Agents - 90,000 annually
Toxic Agents - 60,000 annually
Sexual Behavior - 40,000 annually
Firearms - 35,000 annually
Motor Vehicles - 25,000 annually
Illicit/Illegal Drugs - 20,000 annually
SMOKING AND BREAST CANCER:
Women who smoke suffer a 25 to 75% increased risk of breast cancer when compared to women who don’t smoke.
The more and longer women smoked the higher the risk of breast cancer.
COLON CANCER AND SMOKERS:
Smoking leaves a cancer-producing effect on the large intestine that will probably last throughout your life.
Smokers can double their risk of colon cancer.
Reasonably thinking then, the sooner you quit, the less risk you have of colon cancer.
MORTALITY OF SMOKERS:
Smokers lose an average of 21 years of life.
At least 25% of all smokers will die prematurely from a smoking-induced illness.
HEALTH CARE COSTS OF LIFELONG SMOKERS:
Almost a decade ago, in the year 2000 the excess lifetime medical expenditures for all of those smoking today in America will amount to approximately $500 billion dollars.
This will amount to $50 billion in annual medical expenses for smokers. Please keep in mind these stats are 8 years old and are substantially worse now.
Here’s another way to look at it. Each year more than 1 million youngsters start to smoke, adding an estimated $10 billion during their lifetimes to the health care costs US taxpayers will have to pay. Once again, these stats are from 2000 and have most certainly risen from then.
PASSIVE SMOKING DEATHS PER YEAR IN THE US (EST):
Heart disease deaths: 35,000
Lung cancer deaths: 5,000
Deaths from other forms of cancer: 10,000
“Women who have never smoked face over twice the risk of developing lung cancer if they live for a significant period of time with smokers.”- Neil Nedly, M.D.
“When compared with offspring of nonsmokers, mothers who smoke at least 10 cigarettes a day during pregnancy give birth to children with IQ’s that average 9 points lower.”- Neil Nedly, M.D.
SMOKING DECREASES YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE:
Hormonal abnormalities
Greater risk of back injury and pain
Reduced bone strength and increased likelihood of fractures
Rapid loss of physical capacity
Accelerated skin degeneration and wrinkling
Advanced loss of vision
Difficulty sleeping
Likely cases of stomach ulcers
Heartburn problems
Accelerated hair loss and graying of hair
SMOKING ELEVATES YOUR RISK OF SUDDEN DEATH:
Sudden death risk for smokers is 2 to 4 times greater than for nonsmokers.
The risk of sudden death increases with the number of cigarettes smokes per day.
The risk of sudden death seems to diminish almost immediately after kicking the smoking habit.
SMOKING, THE PILL, AND HEART ATTACKS:
A female smoker taking “The Pill” and smoking more than 25 cigarettes per day has nearly 40 times the chance of having a heart attack than that of a nonsmoking female taking “The Pill”.
LUNG CANCER DEATH RATES BY THE NUMBER OF CIGARETTES SMOKES PER DAY:
Nonsmokers have a death rate of lung cancer at 1
Smoking 1-9 cigarettes a day will multiply your chances of lung cancer by 4.6%
Smoking 10-19 cigarettes per day ups your chances of lung cancer to 8.6%
By smoking 20-39 cigarettes per day your chances of lung cancer are raised to 14.7% over nonsmokers.
And if you smoke 40 or more cigs per day your chances of getting lung cancer are a whopping 18.7% higher than those of nonsmokers!
Will you still be smoking next Halloween?
Thank you Lars at:
InsightsandAdvice.com

This piece says that "Nearly 70 percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer are older than 65". So, in order for a cultural change in, say, prevalence of smoking to show an effect, we would have to wait decades for those already on the way to lung cancer to sort themselves out from the mix with people whose risk is actually drawn from that reduced exposure level.

Right now, there is a large subset of our population who grew up with heavy exposure--many of whom smoked themselves--entering or approaching the age demographic containing "nearly 70%" of lung cancer victims. This will continue to be the case for another decade or two.

Too, this same sub-population went through the phenomenon of the 60s, with a wide variety of other substances being smoked, shot, or swallowed. Those insults to their bodies are undoubtedly taking a toll, and there is nothing in history to help anticipate what that toll may be.

The ACS is busy. They have job openings for 103 fundraisers. The ONE person they are seeking for reserarch might find a cure.
http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie...

Funny how smoking proponents jump all over an article on lung cancer as if it were an article on smoking. "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" comes to mind.

This is something addressed very economically in the article--meaning the reference to stigma as hampering research.

Progress in lung cancer research has been hampered by the tobacco industry's decades of fraud. The industry spent billions of dollars deliberately creating deceptive content for the sole purpose of keeping the truth from impacting the companies' bottom lines. This resulted in a flood of disinformation that not only diluted the information-driven research but also misguided many of the researchers who were honestly striving for unbiased results.

Those with the profit motive for extending the illusion of "legitimate scientific debate" are now bolstered by the tens of millions of addicts whose self-images are threatened by the idea that smoking is causally connected with lung cancer.

So, even though the companies have been rebuked and shown to have been engaging in fraud on an enormous level, the very examples that served as proof of that deliberate fraud are still being paraded around as "proof" of the legitimacy of that debate.

Basically, if lung cancer researchers have had disappointing success, it has much to do with the profiteering and/or addiction-driven minions tobacco industry jarring elbows hard enough to dislocate shoulders.

smartguy wrote:

Smoking Facts and Tobacco Statistics
1) There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.
2) China is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year, or 3 million cigarettes a minute.
3) Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis.
4) Five trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately 2 billion pounds.
5) It's estimated that trillions of filters, filled with toxic chemicals from tobacco smoke, make their way into our environment as discarded waste yearly.
6) While they may look like white cotton, cigarette filters are made of very thin fibers of a plastic called cellulose acetate. A cigarette filter can take between 18 months and 10 years to decompose.
7) A typical manufactured cigarette contains approximately 8 or 9 milligrams of nicotine, while the nicotine content of a cigar is 100 to 200 milligrams, with some as high as 400 milligrams.
8) There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, with the remainder being burned off.
9) Ambergris, otherwise known as whale vomit is one of the hundreds of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.
10) Benzene is a known cause of acute myeloid leukemia, and cigarette smoke is a major source of benzene exposure. Among U.S. smokers, 90 percent of benzene exposures come from cigarettes.
11) Radioactive lead and polonium are both present in low levels in cigarette smoke.
12) Hydrogen cyanide, one of the toxic byproducts present in cigarette smoke, was used as a genocidal chemical agent during World War II.
13) Secondhand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemical compounds, 11 of which are known to be Group 1 carcinogens.
14) The smoke from a smoldering cigarette often contains higher concentrations of the toxins found in cigarette smoke than exhaled smoke does.
15) Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of 3,000 a day in the U.S., and 80,000 to 100,000 a day worldwide.
16) Worldwide, one in five teens age 13 to 15 smoke cigarettes.
17) Approximately one quarter of the youth alive in the Western Pacific Region (East Asia and the Pacific) today will die from tobacco use.
18) Half of all long-term smokers will die a tobacco-related death.
19) Every eight seconds, a human life is lost to tobacco use somewhere in the world. That translates to approximately 5 million deaths annually.
20) Tobacco use is expected to claim one billion lives this century unless serious anti-smoking efforts are made on a global level.
Tobacco offers us a life of slavery, a host of chronic, debilitating illnesses and ultimately death. And think about it: We pay big bucks for those "benefits." Sad, but true.
Take your life back!
If you're a smoker wishing you could quit, make your mind up to dig your heels in and do the work necessary to get this monkey off your back now.
You'll never regret it.
Thank you Terry Martin!

So you work for the Cancer Society, big deal.!

All that posting from an anti smoking group. and we are to believe it because surly they would have no bias and no reason to pump up those numbers high enough to be considered lie,s. Foolish people will believe anything.

discusseded wrote:

This piece says that "Nearly 70 percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer are older than 65". So, in order for a cultural change in, say, prevalence of smoking to show an effect, we would have to wait decades for those already on the way to lung cancer to sort themselves out from the mix with people whose risk is actually drawn from that reduced exposure level.
Right now, there is a large subset of our population who grew up with heavy exposure--many of whom smoked themselves--entering or approaching the age demographic containing "nearly 70%" of lung cancer victims. This will continue to be the case for another decade or two.
Too, this same sub-population went through the phenomenon of the 60s, with a wide variety of other substances being smoked, shot, or swallowed. Those insults to their bodies are undoubtedly taking a toll, and there is nothing in history to help anticipate what that toll may be.

Poster contains no intelligence.

generalsn1234567 wrote:

The ACS is busy. They have job openings for 103 fundraisers. The ONE person they are seeking for reserarch might find a cure.
http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie...

Well, now, the tobacco industry doesn't NEED special fundraisers. They have their hands in the pockets of tens of millions of addicts without the will to deny them funding. It is clearly in the interest of the tobacco industry to hobble research that might shine even brighter light on the destructive nature of smoking.

How much training goes into a cancer research scientist? How much orientation is required to fit one into a research program? Isn't a high turnover rate significantly disruptive in this field?

How much training goes into a fundraiser? How much orientation is required to fit one into a fund-raising program? Is a high turnover rate significantly disruptive in this field?

How many people do you suggest it should take to raise enough money to fund one good research project?

I see. You are a propagandist.

discusseded wrote:

This piece says that "Nearly 70 percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer are older than 65". So, in order for a cultural change in, say, prevalence of smoking to show an effect, we would have to wait decades for those already on the way to lung cancer to sort themselves out from the mix with people whose risk is actually drawn from that reduced exposure level..

So what does that tell yea, they dont have a clue yet.

discusseded wrote:

Right now, there is a large subset of our population who grew up with heavy exposure--many of whom smoked themselves--entering or approaching the age demographic containing "nearly 70%" of lung cancer victims. This will continue to be the case for another decade or two.
Too, this same sub-population went through the phenomenon of the 60s, with a wide variety of other substances being smoked, shot, or swallowed. Those insults to their bodies are undoubtedly taking a toll, and there is nothing in history to help anticipate what that toll may be.

So if this is true how can they say or report that SHS is the cause ??? Millions and Millions of dollars in research and they are still guessing ! Brilliant

Well, it seems an opponent of smoking has jumped on this as a smoking thread rather than a lung cancer thread. I apologize for thinking it was only the smoking lobby.

Smoking is not the focus of the article, and it refers to "lung cancer month", not "smoking cessation month", so casting it as a stretching of the Great American Smokeout Day is a major fallacy.

If you don't want lung cancer equated with tobacco use, then you are doing your cause as well as theirs a major disservice by burying any lung cancer discussion under your barrage of "It's all about smoking" crap.

Any tax exempt political action committee that calls itself a "charity" that, instead of doing research and educating, their primary function, now spends huge sums of my tax money to hire lobbyists and lawyers to make laws using GESTAPO tactics using LAW ENFORCEMENT, THREATS, INTIMIDITATION,, and SNITCHING to FORCE people to OBEY their guidelines will get NO DONATIONS from me. This CEO makes over a million dollars a year. This is a "charity"? My donations are going to local groups that are being deprived of the money they used to get from bars, bingo halls, and vets clubs

http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/report.a...

discusseded wrote:

Well, it seems an opponent of smoking has jumped on this as a smoking thread rather than a lung cancer thread. I apologize for thinking it was only the smoking lobby.
Smoking is not the focus of the article, and it refers to "lung cancer month", not "smoking cessation month", so casting it as a stretching of the Great American Smokeout Day is a major fallacy.
If you don't want lung cancer equated with tobacco use, then you are doing your cause as well as theirs a major disservice by burying any lung cancer discussion under your barrage of "It's all about smoking" crap.

Why was it started on the "smoking" forum?

Because they are fear mongers and they know they must keep the fear going in order to keep there scam alive.

generalsn1234567 wrote:

<quoted text> Why was it started on the "smoking" forum?

Hey, I'm responding in the "Health" forum.

It mentions smoking in the article--but only peripherally--and so would be linked into the smoking forum.

If there is something to indicate that it WAS "started on the 'smoking' forum," then perhaps there is also an indication of who "started" it and you could ask that person.