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the vast majority (90%) of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer.

• kbelder 3y ago
  This is an important point, and making it doesn't mean you condone smoking. "A study in Preventive Medicine Report looked at the risk of smokers developing lung cancer. The researchers found that the average risk for nonsmokers over the study period was 1.8% for males and 1.3% for females. The risk jumped to 14.8% for males and 11.2% for females in current smokers. However, the study did not take into account the number of cigarettes each person smoked per day." https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/smoking-lung-cancer#statistics https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/smoking-lung-cance... It's higher than 10%, but still, doesn't happen to most smokers. That's why so many of the anecdotes in this thread... person X smoked and lived to 90, person Y smoked and died at 35... don't make a strong point, other than cancer is purely a game of odds, and smoking increases risk by 5-10 times. Still, it shouldn't be surprising if somebody smokes and doesn't get lung cancer. That's the most likely outcome.