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by nbar 752 days ago
Yes, but he tested for likelihood of lung cancer through gene screening. Odds we favourable so he kept smoking.
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What about giving cancer to others by secondary smoke inhalation, what about tongue cancer and mouth cancer and gum disease and cardio-vascular problems and breathing difficulties and eventual COPD and all the negatives of smoking that aren’t lung cancer?
I can't tell if you're joking or not but that's an interesting approach for sure. I'm surprised gene screening was accurate enough to do that 20-40 years ago?
LOL. I think he was an idiot, in that regards. Similarities to Steve Jobs, who resorted to quackery with his cancer. People can be geniuses and dumbasses at the same time.
I don't see the quackery, man liked smoking so he kept smoking. I think you're assuming some stronger claim about smoking or genetics which nobody has made.