Reply #141: Quitters have a higher cancer risk than non-smokers...

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....decades (the rest of their lives) after they quit. That statement simply was not true.

The risk comes from insoluble lumps of alpha particle emitters lodged in the lungs, as well as to a lesser extent the increased number of precancerous lesions, which everyone has but ex-smokers have more of. They don't come out over time.