Mr Spock Has Smoking-Related Disease In Spite Of Having Given Up 30 Years Ago.

[Canary42]

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/leonard-nimoy-has-chronic-lung-disease-194456920.html

In spite of giving up smoking 30 years ago, Leonard Nimoy has developed smoking-related disease.

Sad news indeed.

I wonder how much has to do with passive smoking.

[baza]

Sad news indeed.

[excelsior-1]

oh good lord ---- i had no idea it was that advanced

i will mourn his passing if/when he succumbs to this desease

[mikey4444]

Smoking equals lung disease...an entirely logical situation Captain.

[douglas9401]

'I wonder how much has to do with passive smoking.'

Nowhere near as much as active smoking, that's for sure. I think I may have detected a bonnet bee.

[black_cat51]

you can get copd even without being a smoker. Also, if he smoked till he was 52, he could well have been a smoker for 40 years (rather than thinking of it as given up 30 years ago)

[ummmm]

He's 82. What do people expect?

Smoking or no smoking, people of an advanced age are more likely to get cancer.

[black_cat51]

he doesn't have cancer

[ummmm]

Ok...didn't read the whole article.

Any disease then.

[Prudie]

I wonder how many other diseases the NHS can blame on things done 30 years ago, everything is caused by something, usually living.

[dannyk13]

As Black cat says it is not how long you have gone without smoking.It is how long you smoked for.I gave up smoking 15 years ago after smoking for 54 years.I have COPD but if I hadn't stopped I would probably be dead by now.

[DrFilth]

it is the easy way out to blame smoking

my old workmate has just got bad news about his partner she has cancer and she has to go in to have her private part below removed and one up top plus has to go for some test on her liver

this person has never smoked and does not drink ,

her partner hated smoking before it became a national pastime and also did not drink so both would not be in the company of smokers


when a young girl of 12 was told she had cancer , both her parents did not smoke so unless they smoke in primary school or nursery what do they blame hers on ?

[Brenden]

Very sad news, and I think pollution has a lot to answer for, but what would we do without petrol?

[mikey4444]

Dr Filth...It sounds from your post that your old colleague's wife doesn't have lung cancer, so probably smoking isn't the cause for her present ills.

The link between smoking and lung disease is well proven now. Even the tobacco companies have stopped arguing against the link, which they did for years. But remember poor Roy Castle :::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Castle

http://www.roycastle.org/about-us/How-it-all-began

[mikey4444]

If we knew why some smokers never get ill, and why non-smokers get lung cancer, we would be a lot closer to beating the disease.

[douglas9401]

Has anybody investigated the possibility of dilithium poisoning?

[mikey4444]

Scotty would have been more at risk from dilithium crystals. But come to think of it, he did die didn't he ?...Curiouser and Curiouser !

[Canary42]

Lithium poisoning symptoms :-

1. Persistent diarrhea.
2. Vomiting or severe nausea.
3. Coarse trembling of hands or legs.
4. Frequent muscle twitching such as pronounced jerking of arms or legs.
5. Blurred vision.
6. Marked dizziness.
7. Difficulty walking.
8. Slurred speech.
9. Irregular heart beat.
10. Swelling of the feet or lower legs.

Nothing about COPD there. Have I detected a bonnet bee LOL ?

[237SJ]

Smoking damages your DNA which is why you can get smoking related diseases many years after giving up. Best idea is not to do it in the first place if you don`t want to be left with that legacy.

[anneasquith]

I wouldn't have thought he has just developed it, its just getting worse. his COPD most likely was caused by the smoking, if he hadn't stopped 30 years ago would he be alive today ?