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Lung Cancer Happens to the Other Guy

 

Lung Cancer is one of the leading causes of illness and death due to smoking cigarettes.  Not all lung cancer patients die.  Some are fortunate enough to be cured and live to tell others about their experience.  I am one of the lucky ones that have been blessed and beat the odds of dying from lung cancer.

Back in 1973 I was once told by my neighbor, who also smoked, “You are going to get lung cancer from that brand of cigarettes that you smoke”.  My smart response was, “I doubt it, cancer always happens to some other guy”.  Ten years later, three years after I had quit smoking, I was diagnosed with lung cancer.  The joke was on me, I was the other guy.

Think about these few statistics I would like to share with you.

A government study has found that each and every day there are 3,000 new smokers that become addicted to nicotine.  A high percentage of those 3,000 new smokers are young people in their teens and early twenties.

In another study it has been determined that 460,000 people die each year from lung cancer and cigarette smoking related diseases.

So here is how some of the figures stack up.

3000 times a day times 365 days equals 1,095,000 new smokers each year that become addicted to cigarettes.

1,095,000 new smokers minus 460,000 smokers that die each year leave 635,000 new smokers each year that survive. These survivors have become addicted smokers that purchase cigarettes.  They smoke and get illnesses and medical bills that are caused by cigarette smoking.  So, along with the expense of buying cigarettes, which I understand are increasing in price at a fast rate, they have to pay for visits to the doctor and prescriptions to combat the illnesses caused by the tobacco smoking addiction.  According to these figures, the tobacco companies are doing all right financially.

Every smoker, me included, believes that lung cancer won’t happen to him or her.  It always happens to the, other guy, not me.  If you smoke, according to the above figures, your chances of dying from lung cancer or having some other tobacco related disease is 459,999 to 1.  Do you think the odds are in your favor?  Why take that chance? You could be that, other guy.

If you think that you can quit smoking take my word for it you can if you believe that you can.  Life is better when you simply be tobacco free.

 

Thanks for visiting and good luck.

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