Lung cancer rates in Britain are rising among women, we are told.
Lung cancer cases in women are continuing to rise, according to figures released by Cancer Research UK.
And of course:
Cases of lung cancer reflect smoking rates two to three decades earlier, as more than 80% of cases are linked to tobacco.
To be fair, no one is arguing that tobacco smoking is actually good for you – unlike a few decades ago when it was deemed to be a good solution for “nerves”. However, smoking has been in serial decline for some while now.
The rise in rates amongst women is a direct consequence of the rising number of women who took up smoking in the 1960s and ’70s. Fewer smoke now, but still far too many: the teenage girls and young women we see around us smoking today are the lung cancer statistics of the future.
Aha! Well, if that is the case, there’s not much to be done about it – the damage was done forty years ago, wasn’t it? And smoking has declined since then, so in forty years time we will see fewer cases of lung cancer – assuming, that is, that one in four cases really is due to tobacco smoking.
Plain packaging and a ban on the display of cigarettes at the point of sale would be a vital step in the de-glamourisation of a habit that kills.
Bollocks, frankly.
Notably missing from those stats are the ages of those who have died from lung cancer, what their professions were, where they lived (i.e. big city, rural, in a plastic bubble), how much did they smoke, etc., etc. And I also notice that the stats constantly change, now it’s more than 4 out of 5 (80%), when it was 3 out of 5 (60%) a few years back, and before then it was 50%. That number just magically increases almost monthly, even though smoking prevalence among both genders has dropped considerably since the 60s and 70s.
Here’s a fun stat: 100% of tobacco control advocates are fucking lying bastards.
Another one, 100% of non smokers die…
That’s me done for, then.
XX Plain packaging and a ban on the display of cigarettes at the point of sale would be a vital step in the de-glamourisation of a habit that kills.XX
Aye. Thats why every time we nick a dealer, all his wraps are designed by Saatchi and fucking Saatchi, and are all layed out in the best glass vitrines, nicked from Harrods, so his customers know what they are getting.
I see Lansley is now quoted as saying the Government wants tobacco companies to have “no business” in Britain. Authoritarian bastard……