November 12, 200817 yr if a cure was invented i think a lot of people would be happy (lol) It would be a revelation on earth, because lung cancer is a leading cause of death and now we have a way to stop it
November 13, 200817 yr Depends if its surgery that'd put lots of people off anyway, not to mention prices and other effects... Doomy edit: I like sheep
November 13, 200817 yr Smoking causes many more problems than just lung cancer. It also does not difinitevely cause lung cancer, it only increases the risk. If you choose your beliefs/lifestyle simply based on what your parents want, then you are a weak minded individual and are not even worthy of calling yourself a person.
November 13, 200817 yr Smoking causes many more problems than just lung cancer. It also does not difinitevely cause lung cancer, it only increases the risk. Somewhat misleading, because cigarette smoking is almost exclusively the only way to develop lung cancer (besides the extremely rare few cases of being constantly exposed to uranium/chromium dust for prelonged periods of time) It's true that not every smoker will get lung cancer, but a pretty big portion of them will. In the US alone, 20% of the population smokes cigarettes regularly [1], which is 60 million people, and an average of 440,000 of those people die every year due to the side effects of smoking such as lung cancer [2]. If you were to wait for 30 years, 13.2 million of the smokers who were originally sampled in 2008 (regardless of how young they were) would be statistically dead, which is a long-term inevitable fatality rate of 22%. Sure, it wont kill you instantly, but you're literally playing russian roulette with your life with odds weaker than those of a revolver, if you continue the habit even for a few years. The statistics simply don't lie. I'm not trying to talk anyone out of smoking, just laying out the truth.
November 13, 200817 yr If a cure for lung cancer was invented, thousands of radiologists, chemotherapists (is that a word?), and other kind of doctors with other forms of treatment would lose their jobs. On the other hand, millions of people are losing their lives each year which can be a father, mother or child which will cause both emotional and financial challenges for the family members. The question is: what's ethical?
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