why does the surgeon general blame all lung cancer on cigarettes?

Question

a very small fraction of smokers die from lung cancer and 10-20% of victims never smoked...
http://medsocial.com/blog.aspx?blogaction=viewblog&show=721

Answer 1

you answered your own question 80%-90% do smoke, I don't think i ever heard the surgeon general say all but i have heard them say most lung cancer is caused by it though. I read you article and it is bias for smokers... you know on the side of that pack of cigarettes that you smoke it has been proven you have a higher chance for lung cancer for smoking than not to smoke right?

Answer 2

You've quoted an obscure blog written by someone that is greatly misinformed.



With few exceptions, when it is determined that the Lung is the primary site of the malignancy ,that almost invariably only occurs in smokers. That does not mean that all smokers will get lung cancer. It means that if you do get lung cancer, it can usually but not always be traced back to smoking cigarettes.

Answer 3

I am a research nurse who looks at patient charts all day long. Cigarette smokers constantly come up in bladder cancer, right-sided heart failure, kidney and bladder cancer, kidney and liver disease and tumors, ovarian cancer, colon cancer etc. Lung cancer is the least of it. All day long I look at charts of people dying with metastatic cancers and all day long I see 20 yr. smoking histories. Maybe my lung cancer patients are only 20% of the cases, but the cancers are numerous and deadly and every one of them smokes. The surgeon general does not blame all lung cancer on cigarettes. That is why there are warnings on asbestos and all sorts of chemicals and products have been either labeled with warnings or banned altogether. Nine out of ten charts I read with patients who have digestive cancers, urinary tract cancers, lung cancers, throat cancers, digestive disease, bone disease, tumors, COPD, emphysema,heart failure, etc. are smokers. There is no way it is a coincidence. I went into this field thinking smoking was no big deal. Now I am horrified. Lung cancer is the least of it.

Answer 4

Oxidative stress is the cause of 70% of all disease. Just because you smoke doesn't mean you die of lung cancer, you just increase the risk of any kind of cancer.



Take a long hard look at your living parent who smokes and is still alive.



Is their quality of life chalked up to age or is it from cigarettes?



Its not normal for your quality of life to go down hill when aging. Isolated civilizations in Asia, Australia, and Northern Europe where people eat lots of antioxidants in the diet and pure water have people living in the triple digits with no health challenges.

Answer 5

In this day and age society wants a blame for everything from spilled milk to cancer. If cigarettes weren't around to blame for lung cancer society would find something else to push onto the Surgeon Generals desk to blame for lung cancer whether it was pollution from cars or pet dander in the air.

Answer 6

emphysema..I was diagnosed with it 24 years ago and I didn't believe that cigarettes was causing it..plus I've had 2 heart attacks..my doctor prescribed a medication called Chantix to quit smoking..it worked..I have been smoke free for 3 months..if don't believe that smoking is bad for your health..you're as naive as I was..now I can't do much without being out of breath..I hope you change your opinion about smoking..I take full responsibilty for what has happened to me..the cigarette companies didn't put the cigarettes in my mouth..I did

Answer 7

well if the 10-20 % weren't smoking then they must be negative smokers as they sit in places where other smokers smoke their cigarettes & not to mention car wastes and the other pollutants from factories..chemicals...the food we eat...and remember cigarettes are always the number one to blame in all chronic diseases .all diseases today.....cigarettes are the death in a packet..

Answer 8

A lot of smokers will have to have a lip removed.. or tongue.. or larynx, or lung... smoking leads to some nasty and PAINFUL deaths, and the deaths can take YEARS. Your family gets to watch you rot away, getting uglier and uglier until they don't even want to see you.



Smoking is sooo cool, isn't it?

Answer 9

im not sure but it seems anything related to cancer seems to get blamed on smoking. i know that smoking is not healthy, however some people get cancer who never smoke.

Answer 10

to stop people from smoking and is the leading reason in the eyes of the public. They cannot blame polution, we cannot do anything about that.