In article >, says...
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> "Bruce" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 06:18:54 -0700, "Cheri" >
> > wrote:
> >
> > wrote in message
> . ..
> >>> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:48:05 -0400, jmcquown >
> >>
> >>>>Then again, there are plenty of people who never smoked who died of lung
> >>>>cancer. Living is a dangerous business.
> >>>>
> >>>>Jill
> >>>
> >>> I know three or four people, who smoked, and died of lung cancer. Are
> >>> you busy trying to justify smoking?
> >>
> >>
> >>I know two who died of lung cancer who never smoked, but did work in the
> >>shipyards during the war. I see nothing in Jill's post that is *trying to
> >>justify smoking* she's just stating a fact.
> >
> > There aren't "plenty" of non smokers who die of lung cancer. There is
> > a small number of them. And there is a much bigger number of smokers
> > that die of it.
>
>
> That is absolutely not true, there are many who die of lung cancer from
> other causes, not as many as smokers, but still many/plenty.
>
> Cheri


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170525/

" Approximately 10 ? 15% of all lung cancers arise in never smokers,
making lung cancer in never smokers one of the leading causes of cancer-
related mortality."

Janet UK