tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post97114853167573791..comments2023-12-23T09:28:20.869+00:00Comments on The View from Cullingworth: The whole point about vaping and harm reductionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172766774137902766.post-49383221253804918302016-01-09T22:58:15.677+00:002016-01-09T22:58:15.677+00:00Good evening, Mr Cooke,
I feel the need to commen...Good evening, Mr Cooke,<br /><br />I feel the need to comment on your phrase:<br /><br />"....and the massive risk of lung or throat cancer that I had."<br /><br />I suppose that much depends upon what you mean by the word 'massive', but can I quote a few figures from The Doctors Study (1951 - 2001)?<br />Over 25,000 of the doctors who took part in that study died during the course of those 50 years. Of that total, 1,052 died from lung cancer and 340 from cancers of Cancers of mouth, pharynx, larynx and oesophagus. I'm sure that you can see straight away that the percentage which died from lung cancer was 4% approx and the percentage which died from throat etc cancers was 1.4% approx.<br />You may consider that 4% and 1% are 'massive risks', but when you consider that those figures mean that 96% of deaths were NOT from lung cancer and 99% were NOT from those other cancers, I would say that the risks are by no means 'massive'. <br />By the way, at the start of the study, out of some 24,000 doctors aged 35 or over, only 3000 were non-smokers. IE, only some 12% were not smokers. What I am saying is that the absolute risk of dying from lung cancer is pretty small, even though the relative risk is much higher for smokers than non-smokers. Relative risks can be very deceiving. Junican https://www.blogger.com/profile/03405543859782362078noreply@blogger.com