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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There is no way to know.
The correlation between cancer and cigarettes is statistical. If you smoke many cigarettes you are more likely to get cancer than if you don’t. It’s not like “these 3 cigarettes” were the lucky ones (unlucky ones?) that gave you cancer.
Cancer susceptibility is a function of genetics and the whole life of environment you’ve experienced.
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