Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee on Why You Shouldn't Smoke

Leading cancer researcher, physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee on cancer prevention and why smoking can kill you.

In the clip, Mukherjee talks about balancing the latest research with old-fashioned common sense:

The Latest Cancer Research for Smokers
'There's a new study that makes the argument that if you take people who are high risk -- smokers that are high risk -- and you perform CAT scans, you can detect cancers. The problem is that for dollar for dollar, it's much better to knock the cigarette out of the person you see smoking outside... than to perform a 6000 dollar CAT scan. But - if that's what works, that's what works.'

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[Treeefingers]

I'm down for that campaign.

[ProfMTH]

@LatumWay When I saw the thumbnail for this, I thought, "What is TheoWarner doing on 'The Hour'?!"

[donteatthecrabdip]

@TimeGod12 Do you drink raw eggs in the morning too?

[4estfloor]

@MaaNonu123 hahahaha

Ditto

[MaaNonu123]

that one fuking piece of hair that's not gel'd up is pissing me off

[TimeGod12]

With free healthcare, I have smoked 3 times a day for 15 years and still am as fit as an athlete.

Heck smoking is also very manly.

Only wimps get scared of this stuff.

[coolsvilleowner]

@ProfMTH LLOOL

[ilylac]

@Shamino1 (@misterwite1) a.) benzene, and b.) indigenous peoples, too, don't smoke as often as cigarette smokers do. cigarettes are primarily dangerous because of nicotine addiction -- without it, no one would even smoke cigarettes. the processing is an added danger, but burning basically any plant matter and inhaling it leads to carcinogens in the respiratory tract, which is an obvious no-no. to note, many cigar smokers end up with cancer primarily in the throat and mouth instead of lungs.

[MisterWite1]

@Shamino1 True that... and ironically a lot of those chemicals were added for 'safety' purposes. For example there's a chemical in tailor-made cigs that will make it extinguish itself if it's not being smoked, because people use to burn there houses down after falling asleep with lit cigarettes. And ilylac, pot has been around since the dawn of time.... and still there hasn't been a pot-related death, period. Why do you think cancer patients are being prescribed marijuana these days? Its a cure.

[Shamino1]

@ilylac You're a moron. Industrial-made cigarettes are cancerous mainly because of the preservatives placed inside them. All 3500 of them. The tip of a smoke contains traces of Benzine in order for it to light perfectly. Benzine is also one of the deadliest chemicals in the world. Why is it indigenous peoples who smoke the herbs of their ancestral homes right out of the ground can live in their 90's but cigarette smokers can't? That's why. PS Pot has 7 times the tar of a smoke, not the chems.

[ilylac]

@Redtsar999 marijuana smoke is just as bad for the lungs and body as cigarette smoke, but the research lags because there haven't been people smoking 50 joints a day for the last ninety years.