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Re:We may finally know why so many lifelong smokers never ge... by whatisthiseven on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:57AM (#31581872)
That link just shows all cancer. If you start here: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/statistics/index.htm Then click the graph on the right, you can see the trend line for LUNG cancer specifically.

Spoilers: the per capita lung cancer incidence is going down for all of the 21st century. It is actually improving faster the most recent decade than the previous. What has changed is the total number of new lung cancer cases is slightly increasing.

This is easily explained by an increasingly elderly population, which makes up over 80% of lung cancer sufferers: https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-looku...

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Re:We may finally know why so many lifelong smokers never ge... by BizarroLand on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:45PM (#31584548)
I wonder how much of that is affected by older smokers being much more vulnerable to Covid? Over 1,000,000 Americans have died to Covid in the last few years and that number is heavily skewed towards older people and smokers.
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