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HIV Contributes to Lung Cancer Risk, but Not Nearly as Much as Smoking
Steve
Scare tactics again. Read further. YET THE INCREASED RISK ASSOCIATED SOLELY WITH HIV INFECTION WAS MODEST COMPARED WITH SMOKING HISTORY. CURRENT SMOKERS AND PEOPLE WHO HAD QUIT WITHIN THE PAST YEAR WERE ALMOST 10 TIMES AS LIKELY TO DEVELOP LUNG CANCER AS PEOPLE WHO'D NEVER SMOKED. People who’d quit more than one year earlier were just over five times as likely to develop lung cancer. PEOPLE WHO REPORTED ONLY SMOKING OCCASIONALLY WERE ABOUT 3.5 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP LUNG CANCER. Enough!!
February 24, 2010 • Morristown, NJ