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Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits by User23 on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:27AM (#34312147)
I believe smoking increases your risk of getting lung cancer by about 20%[1]. It's definitely significant, but plenty of regular smokers manage to die from something else. I'm pretty happy about the repression of public smoking though, because I find the odor of cigarette tobacco revolting and also prefer to not have my risk of lung cancer even moderately increased by second-hand smoke.

Annoyingly, it's hard to find good figures on relative risk for smokers and non-smokers, probably because of the current public health fad of dissembling to attempt to encourage desired behaviors. All I can find is that for the total population lifetime chance is 1/15 for men and 1/17 for women[2], with some weasel words about smoking increasing risk, but no actual quantification.

[1] It's true that most people with lung cancer are or were smokers. But it's also true that most people with lung cancer are over 65, and they're from a period where most everyone was a smoker or exposed to smoke regularly. That's a pretty major confound. Over the next few decades we should get better data due to the relative decline in smoking making the effects of choosing to smoke clearer.

[2] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/lung-cancer/about/key-statisti...

Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits by goda90 on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:36AM (#34312273)
I think you misinterpreted 20x as 20%. CDC say smoking increases your chances of getting lung cancer by 15-30 times[0] vs someone who doesn't.

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm

Re:Why Intermittent Fasting Has So Many Health Benefits by tayistay on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:48AM (#34312410)
Dunno where you got the 20% stat, but it’s totally wrong. From cancer.org:

> The risk of lung cancer for people who smoke is many times higher than for people who don't smoke. The longer you smoke and the more packs a day you smoke, the greater your risk.

MANY TIMES