Smoking can cause cancer-forming process in only 15 minutes: study
You wouldn’t think it, but people these days are still starting to smoke.
Not still smoking, but actually picking up that initial cigarette and lighting up for the first time. They’re starting a habit that was once commonplace, then panned, then wholly taboo and now, likely as a result of the previous incarnation, kind of trendy again.
Their reasoning? Relax, bra, I’m not going to be one of those hacks smoking for 20, 30 years. It’s not going to harm anyone.
Perhaps, though in a country like Canada that’s forced to subsidize the disease-provoking behaviours of its citizens, here’s something to ponder going into the weekend:
According to a new report published in medical journal "Chemical Research in Toxicology," the chemicals ingested from smoking can start the cancer-forming process not in years, but in as little as 15 minutes.
Indeed, researchers working on the study monitored smokers’ intakes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), a chemical found in cigarettes that’s been noted as a cause of cancer.
By taking an isolated look at the way the body metabolizes PAH, scientists found it was modified during ingestion and turned into another DNA-damaging chemical, one linked with cancer, in only 15-30 minutes.
What such findings may mean for cigarette sales, of course, isn’t yet known. Actually, Canadians are doing pretty well when it comes to butting out over the years. By Health Canada’s numbers, just 18 per cent of 15-and-over Canucks were smokers in 2009, a number that’s way down from 24 per cent, where that same figure stood at the turn of the millennium.
Still, that’s millions of Canadians continuing to light up, at the expense – in terms of health care, at least – of your income taxes.
So, we knew they’d be at risk of coming down with a host of smoking-related illnesses if they kept it up for years. Now, though, if you buy these latest findings, cancer might come knocking for smokers much quicker than originally thought.
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
Posted by: Tenacious Otter | Jan 21, 2022 7:03:06 PM
Still, that’s millions of Canadians continuing to light up, at the expense – in terms of health care, at least – of your income taxes.
I like the subtlety, Jason, like their are no other risk factors in the enviroment. All that clean air and water in our metropolitan areas.
Posted by: Ashamed to be Canadian | Jan 23, 2022 8:14:41 PM
This is a total one sided article and the person who wrote it is an idiot.
First if you don't want people to smoke get the government to freaking ban them.
On the subject of you paying for it through your taxes into the health care system your wrong, WE pay through the taxes we pay on our cigarettes but that money does not go to healthcare it goes to government wages and expense accounts, and then we get blamed for causing all the hospital overload yet nothing is said about the idiots going outside to work when their sick or to the hospital instead of staying home and recovering because they say they can't afford to take a day off because they used all their sick days.
Smokers are not the problem, people who write articles like this are the problem.
Posted by: hmmm | Jan 24, 2022 1:24:16 AM
Jason has been proven to be an idiot before...
Why are we contiunally shown his crap when we know that he has no opinion of his own or has any smarts or reasoning?
This guy's articles are a joke an obviously stock articles and not his own thinking.
Looking at his picture, he was the class bully...
I'd like him to think on his own for once and see what that feels like.
I'd like this guy to be fired because he obviously does not write his own material. I feel ripped off when I come to a link and it's his name on it!
Please fire this guy! He really knows nothing and can only plagiarise other material on the web. Sad!
Posted by: well.... | Jan 24, 2022 2:00:38 AM
To hmmm...if you don't like or trust his articles why read or post on them?
As fo "Ashamed to be Canadian" why is it that some people decide that no matter what evidence is presented it is all one sided. There is a lot of solid science behind the fact that smoking is harmful both to smokers and others and this is just one more. I always think about a test done at school where the smoke from one cigarette was captured in a test tube and checked. Ignoring the results which showed quite a bit, what always got me was the fact that the test tube itself was so stained it could not be cleaned even with solvents.
Posted by: bob | Jan 24, 2022 6:12:45 AM
Yes information from a brainwashed kid does not do it for me.
People his age have been influenced. He is allowed to have his opinion but i do not have to
accept it it as any kind of gospel.
Posted by: Gordon | Jan 24, 2022 8:18:09 AM
They never remember to mention the $71.00 tax per carton of smokes,just the cost to your income tax.
Someone should tell him income tax was put in place to pay the expense of the Second World War.
Posted by: lynda | Jan 24, 2022 8:32:52 AM
they try to make you believe that if you smoke you will get cancer this is not true i smoked for over 45 years and do not have it and i know a lot of other people who have smoked the same lenght of time some longer and do not have it . i dont smoke now but if it
is so bad the government should ban them this will never happen becaue they make to much money off them.it is a shame if all the research is right that someone hasnt eliminated cigarettes all togethe
Posted by: louise | Jan 24, 2022 8:48:40 AM
what a bunch of idiots, i'm a smoker but i'm smart enough to know it's not safe. continue to wear your rose colored glasses. I mean come, i didn't get cancer so that means no one else will, are you kidding me?
i didn't realize it took a genius to figure out sucking smoke into your lungs is not healthy for you, hey wait a minute isn't that what kills a lot of people during fires?
Posted by: Ex-Smoker | Jan 24, 2022 9:10:26 AM
Can't believe that everyone is still on this health care costs issue. Look at it from all sides, smokers pay extra taxes which the government swore was supposed to go to health care (by the pack) and pay more for insurance coverage, so how is it coming out of the pockets of Canadians who do not smoke?????
In a country where there is supposedly a protection of rights, what about the rights of smokers to not be discriminated against and unjustly persecuted for something that is LEGAL. It is a personal choice. I agree that my ex-habit should not be forced on others, nor should other's habits be forced on me. Make it ILLEGAL. Until then, back off.
Posted by: Djm 22 | Jan 24, 2022 1:03:56 PM
They can't make it Illegal...... That would pissoff too many indians
Posted by: Dar | Jan 25, 2022 12:54:00 AM
Hmm, think about how many wood burning fireplaces are going out there.. Talk about second hand smoke! I can't even walk down the sidewalk without coughing out a lung from the smoke.
Why not let them that want to smoke do so.. otherwise totally outlaw it and the fireplaces while you are at it!
They, smokers, don't cost more to our healthcare plan, they die earlier and faster (cancer takes ya fast). I watched my father die at 64, not even old enough to collect pension, and the debt to medical.. a bit of morphine to kill the pan in the last month. then he was gone!
So there ya go they pay into the gov't plans and really never collect much of it back. Its the ones that live past 65/70 that cost us more to maintain.
Posted by: Dwight K. Shrute | Jan 25, 2022 6:31:01 PM
Dear "hmmm":
Best comment I've ever seen! Keep up the great work! That class bully comment literally made me laugh out loud! You certainly told him and his superiors that not only does he deserve to lose his job, in fact you should take over instead. You can continue your baseless accusations and rants against not just this blogger but anyone else who draws your ire. I do offer one piece of advice however, that maybe you should reconsider why you feel "ripped off" when you read a financial blog post that is accessed for free.
Posted by: smoker | Jan 26, 2022 2:28:57 PM
everything causes cancer i don't know how people can write things like this and dictate who is right and who is wrong there is nothing in this world that is safe anymore go outside oh wait! the suns rays are bad for you go to a fast food restaurant nope thats bad too drive your car um nope hurting the enviroment not to mention the exaust can kill you go to the beach and swim in the lake once again no way the water is polluted why dont you people go and pick a fight with a real cause like finding the cure or something not finding the wrong in everyday habits go have a drink oh ! no cant do that cause you will get liver cancer oooooh give it a rest
Posted by: don | Jan 27, 2022 4:44:04 PM
According to this there is not much use in quitting...to late now
Posted by: Brian | Jan 28, 2022 10:30:21 AM
It would surprize me that anyone would have an attention span of 15 minutes to realise the worth of these studies but you can bet X people times X $ = unaccounted $$$$$