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  • Cancer—What Hope for a Permanent Cure?
    Awake!—1974 | September 8
    • If nobody smoked, nobody would get lung cancer from smoking. But among heavy smokers, the risk of getting lung cancer is ten to twenty times as high as among nonsmokers. This is not to say that everyone is affected the same by smoking. Even among heavy smokers there are those who do not get lung cancer. Their resistance to it is evidently greater.

  • Cancer—What Hope for a Permanent Cure?
    Awake!—1974 | September 8
    • As an example of external causes is the lung cancer developed because of smoking cigarettes. About 90 percent of those who get this cancer would not get it if they did not smoke.

      Another example of an external cause is asbestos. For some time it has been noted that asbestos workers were more prone to lung cancer and an otherwise rare chest tumor called mesothelioma. The disease develops after years of exposure to asbestos fibers.

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