Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity

Re:Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcoh... by Clockface12 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:13PM (#32715272)

The older you are when you smoke, the worse it is for you. Smoking in your twenties is far less harmful in terms of its likelihood to cause cancer than smoking in your forties, fifties, or sixties. The damage gets worse with every decade of your life.

Just stop. In five years' time, you'll wonder why you didn't stop sooner.

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Re:Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcoh... by skeeter2020 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:51PM (#32715671)

> Just stop.

Not a smoker but my initial reaction to you is probably pretty close to that of a smoker, and not particularly favourable. How can you possibly think that a deeply physiological addiction is going to respond to either logical arguments or simplistic slogans? Once you fix smoking, can you please stop the opioid crisis?

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Re:Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcoh... by jodrellblank on Monday September 05, 2022 @09:33AM (#32724119)

This is like programmers being asked to debug something, sneering back "you think this deeply complicated distributed database problem could be caused by an off-by-one error, pfft, what do you know?" and then just ... not debugging it.

> "How can you possibly think that a deeply physiological addiction is going to respond to either logical arguments"

Because many many ex-smokers have said that it happened for them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715196

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Re:Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcoh... by seunosewa on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:49AM (#32748183)

He has been trying to stop for a while. It's not easy to "just stop"

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