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...It’s a day-job. It’s an entrepreneurial venture. It’s a band,” says Rudder, who recently quit his job to devote himself full-time to managing Bishop Allen. “It’s been taking off in the last month, but there was a load of groundwork and busting our ass for a long time...
...might expect, the risk of lung cancer varies according to when you start to smoke, how long and how much you smoke, and when you quit. By tracking the incidence of the disease in 18,172 men and women ages 50 to 69 who had been or still were heavy smokers, researchers at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center devised a mathematical model that predicts the likelihood that lung cancer will be diagnosed in a smoker within 10 years. You can find the model on the Web at www.mskcc.org...
...from age 14 until she stopped at age 42. The model puts her chances of getting lung cancer in the next decade at less than 1 in 100. Compare that with a 68-year-old man who has smoked two packs a day for 50 years and hasn't quit. He has a 1-in-7 chance of getting lung cancer by his 78th birthday. If he quits, his 10-year risk drops...
...what's a smoker to think? A 1-in-7 chance of getting lung cancer will scare some folks into quitting, but you might be tempted to shrug off a 1-in-100 chance and think to yourself, As long as I quit by 42, I'm O.K. Think again. More smokers die of heart disease than lung cancer--not to mention that smokers have greater susceptibility to emphysema and other chronic illnesses...
...course, no model, no matter how sophisticated, is foolproof. And this one won't tell you who should get a lung scan. That's something smokers and ex-smokers should decide with their doctors. And if you need any more reasons to quit, consider this: in some ways, a little smoking may be as bad as a lot. Researchers looking at the lining of blood vessels were surprised to find the same damage whether the subjects smoked a pack a day or a pack a week. When it comes to smoking, the odds are always against...