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Re:Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review by isamuel on Friday December 09, 2011 @10:38AM (#3334045)
This is like saying the dangerousness of Russian roulette "depends on the person," because you have a grandmother who's played a bunch of times and didn't die.
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Re:Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review by nsxwolf on Friday December 09, 2011 @11:57AM (#3334438)
That's probably not correct. The grandmother playing Russian Roulette is truly the beneficiary of random chance. She's still susceptible to bullets.

The centenarian smoker likely was never susceptible to smoking-induced lung cancer in the first place.

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Re:Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review by mortenjorck on Friday December 09, 2011 @01:52PM (#3334985)
The hammer is cocked when your embryo is conceived, and you can find out if the chamber was empty a few decades later.
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