42 years old, smoke, drink, eat mostly meat and carbs...

@bijouxbroussard yah, fairly sure the cancer is what gets me.

@bijouxbroussard @MethDozer The damage smoking does to the lungs never gets fully repaired if repaired at all. Both my late partners gave up smoking for the final decades of their lives, but one got done in by Lung Cancer and the other by COPD. Drinking is not so certain. If it starts getting to your liver, it is pretty irreversible, but until then a certain level of drinking actually has health benefits and adjusting the level of drinking as you age appears to balance things out to a far greater extent. Diet, as long as you use some common sense and avoid a diet totally of fast foods and processed foods -- both laden with fructose and sodium express tickets to obesity and diabetes -- is pretty much wide open for debate.

@dancingtongue Yeah. I know. The thing about tobacco too is it has an afinity foor heavy metals and pulls trace radioactive elements out of soils and concentrats them.. Soo on top of the general negayive effects of particulaye smoke inhaltion, your concentrating radioactive and heavy metal elements in your lung tissue.

@MethDozer Don't mean to rain on your celebratory parade, but (1) there is not A solitary cancer but an infinite variety of them and (2) most are linked to tobacco, what we ingest, or pollution we are exposed to. Although your genetic heritage can give you either more protection from, or make you more vulnerable to, them.