@Germlat,
Germlat wrote:
What about unregulated nicotine ? Plus-- an inhaler is not addictive ...used maybe twice daily if that. Vaper users depending on dependance use as much as every 15 minutes ...if not more. But--if you think denial makes you cool...be my guest.
You seem to be transferring characteristics of someone you know onto me. Why do you think I think vaping makes me cool? And what difference would that make in a discussion about the safety of smoking and vaping?
As for regulation, an adult can buy and smoke as many cigarettes and cigars as s/he chooses; there's nothing regulating them. And even people who smoke two packs a day do so (typically) for years before the side effects become serious enough to warrant medical attention. And then there's chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, etc. Again, I never said that using tobacco/nicotine was harmless. But that doesn't mean that it kills everyone who uses it, either.
Statistics should be more helpful than rhetoric, I think:
Quote:Question: What Percentage of Smokers Get Lung Cancer?
Answer:
We know that smoking causes lung cancer, but it’s also clear that some people smoke their whole lives and never develop lung cancer. What percentage of smokers get lung cancer?
Lifetime Risk of Lung Cancer in People Who Smoke
Most statistics look at the overall risk of lung cancer, combining both people who smoke and those who have never smoked. Based on United States statistics, the lifetime risk that a man will develop lung cancer is 7.62%, or 1 in 13 people. For women, lifetime risk is 6.61% or 1 in 15. The lifetime risk of a man dying from lung cancer is 6.26% or 1 in 16, and 4.99% or 1 in 20 women will die from the disease. Clearly these numbers would be higher for people who smoke and much lower for people who have never smoked.
Studies in other countries have broken down the risk further to differentiate between never smokers, former smokers, and current smokers.
In a 2006 European study, the risk of developing lung cancer was:
0.2% for men who never smoked (0.4% for women)
5.5% for male former smokers (2.6% in women)
15.9% for current male smokers (9.5% for women)
24.4% for male “heavy smokers” defined as smoking more than 5 cigarettes per day (18.5% for women)
An earlier Canadian study quoted the lifetime risk for male smokers at 17.2% (11.6% in women) versus only 1.3% in male non-smokers (1.4% in female non-smokers).
More at link:
http://lungcancer.about.com/od/Lung-Cancer-And-Smoking/f/Smokers-Lung-Cancer.htm
I see where you might think that was funny. Maybe I misunderstood what a poster was saying.
