Within how many years can an average smoker get cancer?
There’s no such thing as a safe amount of smoking or a safer type of smoking. All cigarettes are seriously dangerous. People who have started smoking at a younger age are definitely at higher risk. Even occasional smoking drastically increases the risk of heart disease. Smoking is linked to many various diseases, and not just cancer alone. If you are trying to quit or thinking about trying, please seek counseling from a doctor or other licensed professional.
There does seem to be a twenty year lead time between smoking incidence and lung cancer rates looking at data throughout the 1900’s, but that is very rough data. Only 3% of lung cancer patients in the USA are under age 45. Iceman has a good answer here. I’ve seen hundreds of people with lung carcinomas, and I figure the average person smoked about half a million cigarettes.
John Wayne probably smoked well over a million cigarettes before his lung carcinoma in 1964.
BUT – there is great variation from person to person.
Perhaps 5 out of 6 people who are chronic smokers “get away with it” – do not develop cancers.
Though they may have heart disease, vascular disease, or emphysema rather than a malignancy.
So smoking is slow form of Russian roulette.
Remember that cigarette smoking is not just a risk for lung cancer – the number one cancer killer – 31% of all cancer deaths in the USA. Cigarettes cause cancers of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, stomach, lungs, bladder, and others. These are the most difficult types of cancer to treat successfully. Much better to avoid them by not smoking.
I actually knew someone who had lung cancer. He NEVER smoked a single cigarette in his entire life.
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