Reply #40: Good for you! I have a cousin through marriage with lung cancer [View All]

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and very sick from chemo....unfortunately she is one who bad mouths pot and pot users and would probably die on the spot if we recommended that she smoke it!

I am just curious about your particular case....would you tell me if you were an active smoker when you got your diagnosis...or had you previously quit? The reason I ask is this: a couple of years ago while at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston watching my brother-in-law succomb to melanoma I picked up a booklet on lung cancer. In it is a chart that says ex-smokers are at an increased risk of lung cancer after quitting for specified periods of time (years) based on the amount they previously smoked. It haunts me.....and now I am watching a cousin dying of lung cancer who had quit eighteen months before her diagnosis. You obviously don't have to answer this but it's an interest of mine...or PM me if you'd rather. Whatever you decide, the very best to you and keep up whatever you are doing---HA!