Let’s say someone is a cigarette smoker. Each time they light a cigarette, are they chancing the fact that it could contain the carcinogen that will start the cancer that will be an issue for them years later, or is it a gradual build up of carcinogens in the body eventually causing lung cancer? Like, could the hypothetical hot dog I’m eating right now be responsible for cancer years down the line?
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I replied already for how it works.
I add CHANCES:
While poisoning has a safe limit, so as long as you limit the dose you have no long term effect, cancer has no safe dose.
You can live a perfect life and get a cancer anyway.
There is no lethal dose either, you may survive enormous doses.
The reason is your dna is a code, each person has a different code. Some codes are “lucky” just by chance; you can mix the code forever and no combination becomes a cancer. But you may have a very unlucky code to start with.
That’s why a medic would tell you “don’t smoke”, there is no safe amount.
Last thing to say is that there is a body resistance factor. Our antibodies do kill cancer cells. The problem is that this system is already busy all day, so don’t play with it or give it extra work. You are protected all day long, but pollution, diet, cosmic rays, uv, they are all trying to damage you all day long too.
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