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We all should stop smoking.

Posted by identikit • 7/17/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

A deadly trio of poor lifestyles, too much smoking and long waiting periods for cancer treatment are undermining cancer prevention efforts and combining to give the country one of the world’s highest mortality rates for the disease, reported Berlingske Tidende newspaper this weekend.

Denmark's mortality rate from cancer rate is by far the highest in western Europe and puts the country’s prevention efforts on par with Kazakhstan, according to statistics from the World Health Organisation, the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

For every 100,000 people in Denmark, 167 die of cancer. In Sweden, the figure is only 116 out of 100,000 and 115 in Finland. In only 13 of the WHO’s 193 member countries is there a greater risk of dying from cancer than in Denmark.

Most Danish cancer patients die within six months of the disease being detected, and most of those deaths are from lung cancer.

‘Denmark has a full-blown cancer problem which has stabilised at a very high level,’ said Dr Peter Boyle of the International Cancer Research Institute in Lyon, France. ‘It doesn’t seem as if the warnings against smoking have gotten through to Danes.’

Hans Storm, head of research for the Danish Cancer Society, pointed out that the relatively high percentage of Danes who light up - 24 percent of the population, compared with 17 percent in Sweden - plays a major role in the high death rate.

‘In Denmark it’s still okay to smoke everyone else out of the room,' he said. ‘Regardless of how good our health system is, the survival rate from lung cancer is not especially good,’ said .

While smoking has continually declined in popularity since the 1950s when 80 percent of men and 45 percent of women smoked, there has been a 15 percent increase in cigarette sales in Denmark since 2000.

That increase has gotten politicians to take a closer look at the price of cigarettes. The cheapest cigarettes in Denmark cost around DKK 20 a pack, which is about half the price of cigarettes in Norway and the UK.

The Liberals, Conservatives and the Danish People’s Party - who together create a majority in parliament - are now considering a proposal to raise cigarette prices.
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7/17/07

ghostytwofish

I quit seven weeks ago. W00t!

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1. 7/17/07
  
  identikit
  
  thanks
7/17/07

AP

I agree we should. I still smoke, but am going to give up. Soon. I'm booked on an allan Carr course so hopefully that will do it!

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7/17/07

identikit

Good luck. ill try too sooner.

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7/17/07

VeraBass

I'm still waiting for someone to post somewhere that we should all stop drinking.

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1. 7/17/07
  
  identikit
  
  somehow drinking is more accepted today then smoking. We will soon make a research about Denmark and posted in BC too.
  
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2. 8/26/07
  
  awannabe
  
  umm... how about all parents with children at home need to quit drinking.
3. 8/26/07
  
  Chiamano
  
  Does that mean you smoke?
8/26/07

angels1220

Hi,
My name is Lori Palermo from Gouldsboro, PA
You may take a look at my website. I am an Advocate For Lung Disease Awareness & Smokefree Living. My dad passed away 26 Dec. 2003 of COPD/Emphysema. My site is In Memory of dad.

http//www.loveyourlungsbreatheforlife.com
loveyourlungs@yahoo.com

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1. 8/26/07
  
  EavesdropWriter
  
  You have a beautiful and informative site, Lori. I'm sad for your Dad's struggle with emphysema. My Dad was a smoker for 55 years and then quit five years ago. I had begged and worried for so long and then just like that he threw them all out and quit. I couldn't believe it. I still worry something might come up with his health now after all those years of smoking.
8/26/07

momoftwingirls

I smoked for a year in high school, cloves and V S Menthals.

But, I was lame and could not INHALE! Ha Ha Ha

Anyway, sure eveyone should stop smoking, but being forced to stop smoking is not right. Then, what will happen to FREE WILL? Not even God messes with our free will...

The government has no business scaring its people into submission. If someone wants to die via lung cancer or OCPD or enphasema (sp?), then that is their perogative and we, the people and health care industries, must pay for their addictions and desires.

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8/26/07

awannabe

When I was a child, about twenty years ago, and I would go out shopping with my mother, she let me go off on my own to look at things. When I got bored and decided to find her I would listen for her to cough. She always had smokers cough as far back as I can remember.

She's almost sixty something now and cannot sit through a church service, or meeting or anything without constantly coughing. She has emphazyma really bad, and frequent bouts of bronchitis.

Her mother died of lung cancer at that age of 48 btw.

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8/26/07

LadyBanana

I quite agree, I am so happy I never started...

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8/26/07

Chiamano

The topic was about stop smoking, wasn't it?
And that's the best thing I ever did 25 years ago!!

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8/26/07

GrimlyFiendish

Have stopped smoking for over a year now. The main thing I have noticed is that my salt and pepper consumption has dropped considerably after my sense of taste returned. Its all good in the long run, especially financialy.

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8/26/07

scorpy01

I started smoking when I was 14. At 47 I was up to 3 packs/day. On January 1, 2006 I quit smoking.

That wasn't the first time I quit but it is the last time. I'll never start again. Every time I quit, my kids begged me to smoke. I was a madwoman. This time, I got the idea of using the typical 12-step program, just like alcoholics or drug addicts.

Every time I wanted a cigarette, I turned to my higher power, in my case, that meant asking the Holy Spirit to comfort me and calm my craving. It worked. In fact, it worked so well that I never lost my temper or went crazy one.single.time.

That said, I hate the no smoking laws for bars and restaurants. The owners of these places should decide if they're non-smoking or not and let the people vote with their dollars.

Oh, and for the record, I did not quit for my own health issues or because of the preaching from the anti-smoking crowd. I quit because one son has asthma and another is a recovering addict so encouraging him to remain in recovery made me a hypocrite if I refused to recover from my own addiction.

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8/26/07

clioandme

I smoked for a short time in my younger days, but gave it up, thank goodness. My wife smoked longer, but she gave it up a couple years ago. (She always smoked outside.)

Unfortunately, the air in DC has some problems. Besides season allergies there are way too many tiny particles in the air from diesel engines and, farther afield, coal power plants and such. As a result, I came down with asthma sometime after turning forty.

Scorpy, good for you on both points. Smoking is a real hard addiction to quit.

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8/26/07

clioandme

One good thing about life in DC now: restaurants and bars are smoke-free (since 1/1/2007).

One bad thing about life in DC: walking past the door of some bars can be hazardous to your health.

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8/26/07

WokeupToday

Quit exactly 30 years ago..think of all the money I saved...

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9/15/09

mike2305

There is an acupoint you can use to help stop the craving of smoking. It is at the top of your ear just under the fold. If you stimulate this area for about 60 seconds each time you feel the urge to smoke.

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9/15/09

LGramlich

I restarted smoking again when I found out I had to have surgery last month. It's really evened me out again. When I wasn't smoking, I just got more & more wound up & angry--way beyond "irritable." If smoking makes me more functional on a day to day basis, so be it.
I'm also not afraid of dying "before my time." On the contrary, I don't want to live to a ripe old age where nothing works right anymore & you get carted off to a nursing home where strangers are likely to abuse you in all manner of ways. Besides, without modern medicine, I would have died of appendicitis decades ago, so I'm already fortunate to have lived as long as I have.
In another vein, were it not for my recent surgery, I likely would have ended up with cancer, anyway. Regardless of my repeated mentions to doctors about severe, stabbing pains I'd had since 2004, no one cared enough to investigate anything. Everyone fluffed it off. I only found out (after my unrelated surgery,) that my ovary was precancerous.
"Health" is relative.

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