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raveneye,
Thank you for your insight. You've clearly given me more food for thought - I really needed a convincing counter argument to what I had learned - and you've given me just that - in spades!
I'm glad to know the story doesn't end with the EPA report as I had understood them. As I mentioned before primary cigarette smoking is a serious problem among my patients who suffer from a variety of associated chronic conditions. I will look into the matter further and reconsider my view.
willravel, personal experiences like yours are enough to shape anyone's personal opinion. There are several forms of lung cancer - each of which is predisposed by different specific risk factors (by far the greatest being primary tobacco smoke exposure in bronchogenic carcinoma) and some of them through no known risk factors. But statistics have absolutely no relevance to an individual and personal experience - I can understand how you feel. My grandfather to whom I was very close died of bronchogenic carcinoma while I was away in medical school. I had returned to visit after his diagnosis and a partial lung resection. He had been the picture of health when I had last seen him. My stay was short. Only a week after I returned to school I received a call that my grandfather had died.
raveneye, thanks again for the information. I will certainly look into your points when I get a moment. Until then I'll have to suspend my prior statement.
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