Rush Limbaugh diagnosed with lung cancer

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?

AngraMainyu · 2020-02-05T18:43:23.045Z

Haha. I hear you. I doubled my nicotine intake by ripping through to catrigdes while letting myself still smoke cigarettes. The first day I had about 7, the next day 3, the third day I couldnt stomach them anymore.

mwevans1234 · 2020-02-05T18:48:30.979Z

Medicswife2002:

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

Good luck to you - I have no advice but wish you the best.

WolfyT · 2020-02-05T19:08:51.652Z

Ceasar:

You don’t inhale cigars

From famous-smoke dot com. Not linking.

Inhaling cigars do you or don’t you?

People inhale cigarettes, so why not cigars? When it comes to inhaling cigars, there’s no specific rule, and the fact is, a number of cigar smokers do inhale as well as retrohale. In the latter case, you puff on your cigar and blow the smoke out your nose. In some cases, retrohaling results in a very peppery, nose-bending, eye-opening experience. On the other hand, it can help you discover flavors that you may not taste by simply puffing and expelling the smoke. As for inhaling cigar smoke, that’s another story.

But Rush claims he never inhaled, so I give you that, but he spoke fondly of William F. Buckley always doing so like “a real man”. However, he was a ~14 year smoker before that, from when he was 16 (1968) to around 1982. He also denied/downplayed smoking leading to lung cancer for both secondhand and firsthand smokers.

It seems he has a fair bit of personal responsibility here.

KDSMITH · 2020-02-05T21:36:00.315Z

Sometimes, people with advanced lung cancer can live many years after diagnosis. The fat lady hasn’t sung yet!

Eagle-Keeper · 2020-02-06T02:12:17.898Z

amadeus:

My worst fear is lung cancer. I smoked from 18 to 48. Hope Mr. Limbaugh well.

My parents both were heavy smokers from their late teens. Mom quit a couple of years ago, dad still smokes. Both are now 80 and have outlived many who never smoked.

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T00:48:02.276Z