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Marie McHarry wrote:

> Smoking is not a terrific habit, but I'm wondering if the real problem
> with cigarettes are the hundreds of additives? I

I have long believed this to be true.  I also think the pesticides used 
on the tobacco play a role.




> My other grandfather had no known bad habits, but died of stomach
> cancer when he was only 75, after an active life of farming and eating
> well.  He and his wife lived pretty much as James still does. His
> family was prone to cancer (his mother died of breast cancer and all
> of his sisters had it but were too mean to die -- and by the time they
> got it radiation treatment was available). All but one of his brothers
> died of stomach cancer, and that one lived into his 90s and his
> daughter is still going strong at 92 but she has to use a staff
> because she has the same balance problem that afflicted my mother
> (they're, of course, first cousins) and she'll be damned before she
> uses a walker (she has the best posture I've ever seen in a human
> being outside of the military).

Another issue that is never considered when you hear of families that 
are 'prone to cancer' is radon.


> I'd like to read about the genetic differences that develop between
> twins raised apart. I wonder if those changes affect the germ cells?
> After all, we still live in a sea of radiation, and now a sea of
> chemicals. Of course, somatic changes are going to occur, but germ
> cells maybe less so (and they all get used up while they're relatively
> young except for persons like Strom Thurmond).

I saw that study on a news magazine show on TV.  It was interesting. 
I'm sure you could Google it up.. what really interests me, however, are 
the genetic differences in twins raised together, where one identical 
twin gets a gene switched on and the other does not.

Bev




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