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My great grand mother died from lung cancer and never smoked one cigarette in her life. She was a humble and very sober woman. (no alcohol, no tobacco or drugs,
by tr14 5y ago
My great grand mother died from lung cancer and never smoked one cigarette in her life. She was a humble and very sober woman. (no alcohol, no tobacco or drugs, just her medication). The reason, why she died of lung cancer is, that the area, where she grow up, was near coal mine & chemistry plant. LVL 89 tho, nice age anyways. RIP Grandma.
On the other hand, my neighbor from the rural area, where my mother was born & raised, lived all the way up to LVL 93. He had one shot of hard liquor every day and smoked exactly 3 cigarettes a day. His calm live and routines granted him a superior lifespan. He died from age, calmly in the bed, with relative good health for his level.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y ago> His calm live and routines granted him a superior lifespan. That's just conjecture on your part. Some people are lucky, others are not, it's not always due to behavior. 3 cigarettes a day is also extremely low - the average is apparently 14[1] right now. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0118-smoking-rates-declining.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0118-smoking-rates-...
- zadler 5y agoIt’s low but the risk of smoking one a day isn’t 1/10 of smoking 10 a day, it’s probably much higher. https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5855 https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.j5855
- mmcgaha 5y agoWhen I was young, I figgured what would be the big deal smoking a few cigarettes per day. By the time I was 25 I realized that two packs per day was getting out of control. I don't believe there is any harmful information but the whole picture is that most folks cannot smoke a few per day. Eventually cigarettes will own most smokers.
- monopoledance 5y agoYou probably have to differentiate risk. I assume for some risks associated with smoking there is a linear correlation with exposure, where it's on/off for others, or e.g. following a logarithmic function. Nicotine, CO and radioactive toxicity have a long half-life, where primary radical damage or reactive carcinogen burden is dose dependent stochastics. Also people forget, you are much, much more likely to die from cardio-vascular damage or COPD as a consequence of smoking, than lung cancer.
- gwbas1c 5y ago> 3 cigarettes a day is also extremely low The addictive nature of cigarettes makes it very hard to stick to 3 a day.
- copperx 5y agoI remember that when I was 18 I wanted to become a smoker, but I never could because I don't do anything consistently.
- secondcoming 5y agoLVL?
- dmichulke 5y agoIn a way life is about maxing skills and avoiding perma-death.
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- eplanit 5y agoMe too... some mysterious synonym for "years"?
- aflag 5y agoI think it means level. I assume the reason to say that is that having a higher level in a video game is considered good, whereas it is common for people to discriminate against people of more age.
- techrat 5y ago> His calm live and routines granted him a superior lifespan. My mean, spiteful and horrendous grandmother in law was nothing but pure bile and hatred. Every day she lived her life in perpetual outrage and never had a moment's peace. She lived to 96.
- PedroBatista 5y agoShe probably outsourced the hate and outrage to those around her, inwards she was 100% peace.
- alejohausner 5y agoThis is known as projective identification.
- monopoledance 5y agoThose people may actually be able to offload stress, anxiety and worries... I fear most evil folks sleep well at night.
- reddit_clone 5y agoThat's my theory too. Mean people cause stress to others and send them to early graves. They themselves live free of illness causing stresses. Karma is something people invented for some temporary solace.
- cm2012 5y agoYep. My wife's grandma is probably the most evil human being I've ever met in person, and she's very healthy now at 88.
- copperx 5y agoThose two things are correlated, in fact. I can't get the citation now, but it's in the literature.
- xroche 5y ago> was near coal mine In Europe, coal typically kills more than 20,000 people _every year_: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european-coal-pollution-premature-deaths https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/european... [ And yet Germany and Belgium decided to end nuclear energy because people are afraid of the "risks", but keep coal plants. ]
- hkt 5y agoGermany and Belgium have cultural hangups about nuclear that relate to the fact most Germans (and probably also Belgians) felt they'd be the first to die if there was a nuclear war. Not that this excuses them from being reasonable, of course, but it is worth keeping in mind just how occupied by the threat of nuclear annihilation many people in those countries were, and for how long.
- Robotbeat 5y agoI’m a fan of nuclear, and I suspect you’re right. The reasons people say they oppose even existing nuclear (cost, waste, safety) don’t usually pass scrutiny. I suspect it is primarily due to their association with nuclear weapons. It instills a pretty deep fear, which I don’t entirely blame them for. ...however it has pretty terrible health, environmental, and economic consequences to prioritize nuclear phase out over fossil fuels (especially coal).
- hanniabu 5y agoThe reason I'm against nuclear power is the human greed factor. See my past comment for more details and sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348520
- da_big_ghey 5y agowe are having way to ensure beter compliance. may be we need for to make nuclear executive responsible with jail time if requirements broken. certainly nuclear safety has more importance than sox compliance.
- vcxy 5y agoI grew up in WV. I have many friends from near the DuPont plant. We like to joke about how we grew up drinking dupont water...kind of morbid though since it's pretty true.