Rush Limbaugh diagnosed with lung cancer

wiley8425 · 2020-02-05T02:49:27.380Z

I’m not the least bit surprised. My grandmother developed cancer from asbestos. You know back when the government still thought it was safe to use as building material for houses. Just wait a few years until we find out about the damage from all the “safe” stuff around us today.

PurpnGold · 2020-02-05T04:48:43.232Z

Cancer sucks… have a lot of it in my family.

I wish he didn’t use his platform to make fun of other people’s diseases (Michael J Fox/RBG) however. I hope this humbled him.

Ceasar · 2020-02-05T05:29:30.717Z

WolfyT:

He was famously in Cigar Aficionado Magazine way back in 1994.

You don’t inhale cigars

zonulet · 2020-02-05T06:33:57.987Z

Rodeo:

I’ve listened to Mr. Limbaugh for years, had the radio on through my phone yesterday at a late lunch when he made his announcement. It was a stunning moment.

I really want to compliment everyone on this forum, it’s wonderful to see everyone coming together to wish him well. Thank you.

I looked at the FoxNews site last night and multiple just vicious comments came with the reporting. Sad.

I’ve never listened to him. I may try to find a few shows for replay.

Cynic · 2020-02-05T06:40:28.100Z

You do indirectly.

WildRose · 2020-02-05T07:04:27.894Z

Sadly there’s not much chance he’ll be with us much longer but man, what a legacy to take with you to the grave.

Few people will ever made even a significant impact locally, Rush changed an entire nation and lead a conservative revival that will live far beyond himself.

He absolutely changed the nature of radio forever and inspired hundreds of millions of people spanning at least three or four generations.

I wish him the best for whatever time he has left here and he can go into the afterlife knowing he made his mark like few men before or since ever will.

JayJay · 2020-02-05T12:30:49.446Z

I wonder what my risk is.

I only ever smoked briefly. In college.

But I lived my first 18 years with parents who smoked 2+ packs a day. Years after they quit the house still smelled of cigarette smoke.

Lost my mom to lung cancer and my dad partly because of his emphysema.

Borgia_dude · 2020-02-05T13:03:35.837Z

My sympathies to Rush and his family. Hope he beats the odds. Regardless of politics, we are all human and are lived by others.

Hoping he will not, as Rush himself says, assume room temperature.

highroller · 2020-02-05T13:05:31.918Z

Why stop there? Cut it all.

Ceasar · 2020-02-05T13:17:25.003Z

Cynic:

You do indirectly.

Yes that’s true. All tobacco use is detrimental & best avoided.

mwevans1234 · 2020-02-05T13:21:18.307Z

I hear you. My dad is on the way out from COPD. The funny thing is that I didn’t realize until I went to college and came home how much my parents’ house smelled like smoke!

I hope Mr. Limbaugh is able to recover. As others said, he was an industry changer for sure.

Medicswife2002 · 2020-02-05T13:28:55.243Z

This whole topic gives me much to think about. I smoke still and know I need to quit. I usually look away, ugh…

LucyLou · 2020-02-05T13:31:31.871Z

Please try. It’s hard, I know. Aside from lung cancer, so many other health effects.

Medicswife2002 · 2020-02-05T13:42:05.984Z

I tried the gum and managed to only add it to my routine. I finally stopped chewing it and got myself back down to just cigarettes. I tried Chantix and dear Lord that was awful!! It worked to make smoking taste and feel awful but then I got the side effects of vivid nightmares which is a very real thing. I literally threw the rest of the bottle away.

highroller · 2020-02-05T15:16:04.592Z

Hopefully, this diagnosis will cause others to quit. I smoked a lot in my 20s and still do occasionally today, but I think I’ll quit for good.

Cratic3947 · 2020-02-05T16:35:32.594Z

Mega ditto’s since 1988

Just goes to show you can have the best medicine in the world and they still missed an early diagnosis

AngraMainyu · 2020-02-05T18:27:13.672Z

We would have to fight if you did this.
That said, I quit in December '18. Haven’t looked back.

AngraMainyu · 2020-02-05T18:28:46.651Z

Try the juul. It only took me three days after everything else had failed.

JayJay · 2020-02-05T18:30:21.282Z

Samson_Corwell:

wonderingrover:

Both my dad and my maternal grandmother passed away due to lung cancer. Nasty disease. Hate to see anyone go through this.

A lot of my coworkers smoke. On occasion, I’ve flicked cigarettes out of their hands or poked holes in them. It makes me a pest, but I don’t want to see any of them develop lung cancer.

Closest I came to that was when I was at a red light and saw a person flick a cigarette out the window.

I quickly got out of my car, picked it up and handed it back to him saying “Please dispose of this properly”.

In retrospect a stupid thing to do.

GWH · 2020-02-05T18:38:56.148Z

AngraMainyu:

Try the juul. It only took me three days after everything else had failed.

I found that I couldn’t do both. Yeah, I know why would you. But vaping and cigarettes aren’t the same. There’s a finish line in smoking. You put it out, and wait for the next craving. To me, the juul never ends, and I can’t find the happy medium where I’ve gotten my fix. So I end up even more dependent on nicotine because my intake goes up. Add that to my mind saying “just smoke that cigarette and you’ll be done.” and it actually just made me want to chain smoke. Conversely, it did help me quit, (presently) because I got tired of the cycle. So I guess you could say it helped by pissing me off?