[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

My aunty never smoked (nor allowed smoking in her house), never drank, very rarely ate 'treats', had the most healthy diet one could imagine and did loads of exercise.

She died of cancer of the liver.

Hence why I dont think it makes much difference how you live really.

As a contrasting story my great Grandad smoked till he was in his 70s and drank his whole life and lived to 107

I do think you might be able to slightly change your chances though, but I tend not to give it much thought

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

As a contrasting story my great Grandad smoked till he was in his 70s and drank his whole life and lived to 107

I do think you might be able to slightly change your chances though, but I tend not to give it much thought

Yeah you might be able to lower the risks...but I dont see why people worry about doing things they enjoy on the offchance that it *might* increase their chances of getting cancer. Everyone dies of something at the end of the day, I would much rather it be through something I caused myself through living my life as I want to, not how docs tell me to (I know that sounds morbid as hell though )

Chances are even if I gave up smoking and such now, I would still get cancer anyway. My mother had a genetic form of breast cancer and has been told that her kids are high risk of getting the same. So I try not to think about anything too much really.

Also as a side story, when going through treatment for breast cancer, her consultant was bugging her to quit the fags as this might cause cancer...needless to say my mother told her to st fu. This same consultant also advised my mother to lose weight and be more healthy...my mum is a tiny bit fatter than a rake, and apparently the consultant was about 20 stone