Re: A REAL Reason to Avoid a Smart Meter
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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Fall in use of tobacco has resulted in marked reduction in lung cancer. Alcohol consumption is linked to mouth and throat cancers and alcohol consumption has reduced per capita. Liver cancer usually because of metastasis of a cancer elsewhere. Prostate cancer is more prevalent amongst negroes so genetics must play a part though modern diet no doubt also plays a part.
Coal burning releases radioactive components as does wood burning and natural gas which has relatively high levels of active isotypes.
Perhaps I'm confusing liver cancer with Cirrhosis of the liver Todger. But I think alcohol consumption will have increased during lockdown?
I do think coal & wood burning might have increased the lung cancer risk, but burning wood and coal has been around longer than fags and lung cancer, but vehicle emissions hasn't....
I don't necessarily look at statistics, for me the facts are overwhelming, because I can certainly vouch for people I know, and there are lots of friends and acquaintances who are walking around with Prostate Cancer. All of which are white. In fact it seems like just about everyone I meet who are the same age as me are suffering with Prostate cancer, some of which didn't make it....