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Dear Anon, two new studies published in Scientific America link a variation in a gene residing on chromosome 15 (of a person's 23 pairs of chromosomes) to a heightened risk of developing lung cancer; a third study suggests that the same mutation affects a person's tendency to become addicted to smoke and, by extension, develop the dreaded disease. Lung cancer is diagnosed in some 200,000 Americans and kills more than 150,000 each year.

You may or may not have this genetic variation but why gamble your life? Your symptoms are telling you something is not right. There are many other diseases listed by the Surgeon General of the United States linked to smoking, here are a few:

1. Cancers of the cervix, kidney, esophagus, throat, bladder, pancreas and stomach;

2. Abdominal aortic aneurysms,

3. Acute myeloid leukemia,

4. Cataracts,

5. Pneumonia

6. Chronic lung disease

7. Cardiovascular diseases

Dr Carmona, a former Surgeon General of the United States used to say: "smoking causes disease in nearly every organ in the body at every stage of life"

Your posting ended with: "Please give me some advice", so here is mine, I think you have been blessed with what it may be a great genetic make up. But your body has been telling you for years that you may have pushed it too far. I think it is time for you to prevent more damage in your body by making some choices. I wish you well.

January 13, 2009 - 12:22am

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