Q28. How do some people smoke heavily all their lives and  never get cancer? - Drug Addiction FAQs

A28. That question is often raised by people who often refer to someone that they know smoked all their life and lived to a ripe old age.

They then go on to mention that they know of people who never smoked and still got cancer. This can happen but it is the exception rather than the rule. There is evidence to show that smoking increases the risk of cancer as well as causing cancer.

There are dangerous chemicals in tobacco smoke which can damage the cells within the body, change gene structure and lead to cancer.

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1. What is an addiction?
2. What is the difference between a dependency and an addiction?
3. What causes an addiction?
4. Why do some people become addicted but others don’t?
5. What are the physical effects of an addiction?
6. What are the mental effects of an addiction?
7. What is the relationship between addiction and crime?
8. Can you have a harmless addiction to something?
9. Are there any risk factors for addiction?
10. How do I know if I have an addiction?
11. How do you treat an addiction?
12. What is ‘withdrawal’?
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14. What is a ‘relapse?’
15. Can you be cured of an addiction?
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17. What are the signs of a drink problem?
18. What is the difference between alcohol abuse and alcoholism?
19. What is ‘alcohol tolerance’?
20. What are alcohol withdrawal symptoms?
21. I think my partner is drinking heavily what can I do?
22. What is the treatment for alcohol addiction?
23. Why is smoking so addictive?
24. What is ‘nicotine'?
25. Why is it so difficult to stop smoking?
26. What are the effects of nicotine withdrawal?
27. How does smoking cause cancer?
28. How do some people smoke heavily all their lives and never get cancer?

29. What are the effects of smoking?
30. What is ‘caffeine’?
31. How can you become addicted to caffeine?
32. Which foods or drinks contain caffeine?
33. What are the effects of too much caffeine?
34. What is caffeine withdrawal?
35. I think I am drinking too much coffee, what should I do?
36. How much caffeine is there in energy drinks such as Red Bull?
37. How does an addiction start in young people?
38. I think my daughter has been taking drugs, what do I do?
39. Why do young people become addicted?
40. How can we stop young people from becoming addicted?
41. Why do people take drugs?
42. What are ‘hard’ drugs?
43. What are ‘soft’ drugs?
44. Is drug use confined to deprived areas only?
45. What are the signs of drug abuse?
46. What are the effects of drug use?
47. What is the link between drug use and crime?
48. Which are the most popular drugs in the UK?
49. Why do teenagers take drugs?
50. Can using cannabis lead to the use of harder drugs?
51. Can you stop taking drugs by willpower only?
52. Why do people lie about taking drugs?
53. How do you treat drug addiction?
54. What is ‘cold turkey’?
55. What is drug rehab?
56. Does drug treatment work?