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Air pollution if it is bad enough and concentrated enough can cause cancer I am sure. But I know from personal experience that smoking can cause Cancer because I just had a tumor removed from my bladder that they said was definitely caused form forty years of smoking cigarettes. I never smoked more than a pack a day which is light comparably speaking. But it was enough to cause a tumor on my bladder. Thank God it was non invasive and it looks like once they get the rest of it removed I should be OK but it sure will make you think before you pay $5.00 for another pack of cigarettes.

Air pollution is hard to really figure because there is so much air out there but I can definitely tell when there is more pollution in the air because it is harder to breath. I am sure it is worse for someone who has been a smoker. Smoke from people smoking is so much more concentrated most of the time. I have been in bars where you could hardly see from one end of a billiard table to the other cause the smoke was so thick. You are inhaling every breath even if you are not actually smoking. If you are smoking it is doubly bad for you. Second hand smoke is just as bad as the real stuff. If you care about your health and that of your loved ones, you will quit wasting money on cigarettes and do your best to keep your kids an grandkids from being exposed to smoke or second hand smoke. It WILL kill you. I know I certainly wish I had now all the money I burned up getting my bladder tumor.

I am not sure there is too much we can do about being exposed to air pollution but we can darned sure get away from tobacco smoke and second hand smoke if we want to.

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