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Curious, if the cause is the decline in cigarette consumption; here's a graph showing roughly 100 years of data for the topic: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4ECPy
by nxzero 10y ago
Curious, if the cause is the decline in cigarette consumption; here's a graph showing roughly 100 years of data for the topic:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4ECPyex_cY/TzSalazW2XI/AAAAAAAAA2o/Wrgj5mSyGHA/s1600/Smoking+1900-2006.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p4ECPyex_cY/TzSalazW2XI/AAAAAAAAA2...
- jschwartzi 10y agoThe lines do seem to correlate. In the case of stomach cancer, I'm wondering if there's a similar correlation between the decline in chewing tobacco and the decline in stomach cancer. Chew is full of fiberglass and other stuff, and if you swallow any of the juice you're swallowing that stuff. It's impossible to clear it all from your mouth after you finish chewing, too.
- jalk 10y agoOT: I'm pretty sure fiberglass in chew is a myth.
- DanBC 10y agoWhen smokers give up smoking they start to clear their lungs. They cough up phlegm. many people swallow that, not spit it out. That increases risk of mouth, throat, stomach, bladder, and penis cancer. Tobacco is already pretty harmful. > Chew is full of fiberglass No, it isn't.
- sukilot 10y agoWhy don't active smokers cough up phlegm?
- armitron 10y agoMany reasons. Smoking coats the lungs with a layer of tar and heavy, chronic smokers have coated their lungs to such an extent where there is drastically reduced lung area in contact with the environment (and irritants/allergens). The tar acts like a shield in this case and prevents immune response that can lead to constriction in the lungs and phlegm production. Moreover, active smokers have destroyed the cilia in their lungs (which start to regenerate when one quits smoking) and it's the cilia that do most of the cleaning and phlegm expulsion. When one quits smoking, he goes through weeks or months of coughing and increased phlegm production as the cilia start growing back. Finally, a lot of active (and ex) smokers do cough up phlegm. The co-factors of phlegm production are simply too many for a definite answer. You also have asthmatics and those who suffer from COPD/emphysema.
- taneq 10y agoDon't they? What then is the origin of the term, "smoker's cough"?
- jschwartzi 10y agoThank god, because I chewed a lot when I was younger.