Can Cancer Survivors Still Smoke?

[lleeder]

The Daily News says Samantha Boo!!! (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/04/10/2009-04-10_christina_applegate_whatre_you_smoking.html)

[Snoogans]

she didnt have lung cancer

[razorboy]

Whatever.

[underdog]

If you beat cancer, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want to your body.

[WampusCrandle]

If you beat cancer, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want to your body.

exactly - who gives a fuck if she smoked a cig or not. people say she is a hypocrite, but look at all the fat people in the world that keep eating the way they do knowing full well that they could die.

[EliSnow]

If she had lung cancer, got a lung transplant, and then smoked again, then I could see some issues.

But is the "outrage" that someone who had a disease engages in unhealthy behavior afterwards? Then as a cancer survivor, I should not never have smoked, drank alcohol, or had red, fatty meats afterwards and that's ridiculous.

[EliSnow]

exactly - who gives a fuck if she smoked a cig or not. people say she is a hypocrite, but look at all the fat people in the world that keep eating the way they do knowing full well that they could die.

I don't even see how this makes her a hypocrite. She's supporting cancer research groups to help other people. She possibly would be a hypocrite if she did that, and then went out and did ads to sell cigarettes.

[SatCam]

she didnt have lung cancer

yet

[beachbum]

I don't know.Ask Eddie Van Halen.

[Coach]

Of course! What do you think happens during Cremation....they get turned into a smoothie?

[A.J.]

I blame her mother.

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[~Katja~]

My mom's bf had a lung transplant, he still smokes. Many people who have and had cancer smoke, because especially when you get diagnosed and go through all kinds of stress and anxieties it is even harder to quit.
I am not advocating to smoke, but I see how it is human to continue such habit during stressful times.
Look at Patrick Swayze... they were all over him for still smoking after being in remission.

Let her have her cigarette and make her own decisions.

[cougarjake13]

The Daily News says Samantha Boo!!! (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/04/10/2009-04-10_christina_applegate_whatre_you_smoking.html)




can they ?? sure


but why the hell would you want to if you beat it

[Friday]

my mom was a lifelong smoker and quit a few times when she was going through various chemo rounds and such. But after years of battling... she went back. Her coffee and cigs got her through each day.

Sure I battled her for a while... but in the end, her response made the most sense.

"What's going to happen if I smoke? I will get Cancer??"

:)

[cougarjake13]

my mom was a lifelong smoker and quit a few times when she was going through various chemo rounds and such. But after years of battling... she went back. Her coffee and cigs got her through each day.

Sure I battled her for a while... but in the end, her response made the most sense.

"What's going to happen if I smoke? I will get Cancer??"

:)



had similar fight with my mom

from about 10 yrs old on i'd try to get her to stop

she never would, and only time she did was when she got lung cancer in 2002 and had to go to chemo, at first it went away although not completely but then it came back worse then before and got into organs and stuff that chemo wouldnt work

she died in 2003