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I am starting to wonder if it is worth it to try to avoid cancer at this point. Outside the most obvious risks like tobacco...
by Ekaros 2y ago
I am starting to wonder if it is worth it to try to avoid cancer at this point. Outside the most obvious risks like tobacco...
- sebazzz 2y agoCancer is a bit like a lottery, except you don’t want to win. Every time you smoke you buy several tickets, and buy a little extra chance to get cancer. Maybe with plastic cooking items you also buy some tickets, but far less than if you smoke. In other words: You have some choice. And it is a lottery at the end. There are people who smoke a lot and get to be old and never have cancer. And ultra-healthy people who die of cancer in their 20s.
- cjs_ac 2y agoThere comes a point where the cumulative time needed to avoid the carcinogen exceeds the expected increase in lifespan
- Ekaros 2y agoAlso the enjoyment. Which I enjoy more for example cured meats for rest of my life, or the extension of that life without them...
- tharkun__ 2y agoI always wonder what kinds of cured meats they're checking as well. Do they throw them all in the same category? Would there be a difference between what is done commercially today vs what you might have gotten at the local butcher 50-100 years ago? I remember eating Salami with the white mold coating on it. Like you'd get if you made it yourself. Then I got some commercial 3 kinds of salami package at Costco recently and while it looked awesome from the outside it turned out the white coating was inedible plastic you're supposed to remove before eating. No telling what else they changed over "real salami". I bet a lot of it is just to make it look and taste like the equivalent kind of salami.
- llamaimperative 2y agoIt’s definitely worth advocating for regulation so consumers don’t need to worry about it on a case by case basis.