I'll be 22 in a month, and have smoked 2.5 years but only when I drank, which was roughly once a week. So once a week, I would drink moderate/heavy amounts of alcohol and smoke about 4 cigarettes. Given my age and habits, and my decision to abstain completely from smoking, can anyone please tell me what my risk is for developing oral cancer?

thanks so much.

Probably a lot less than being shocked to death accessing this web site.

Stop smoking forever, go have some fun and forget about oral cancer.

are u just curious as to what your risk is or you have somthing going on to make you curious ? I agree with David ..QUIT FOREVER !! However I never smoked and I was diag,,,But dont increase it by smoking and for 4 cigarettes a week ....you can go without !!! And save yourself some money ,,,which you will need cus of the price of gas ...OK now I am rambling ...Have you ever read " If you give a pig a pancacke "? Well I am rambling like that . All in ALl if you have no symptoms ..go be happy and enjoy life and live it to it fullest ...If you have somthing of concern to you have it looked at . No one could accuraltey give you your % of risk...Just know that smoking can cause so many issues that arent worth it !

If you can go all week without smoking, then you can easily NOT smoke at all. Now when I see people smoking, I want to go up to them and say, "Let me tell you that you do NOT want this cancer!" Of course, I don't do that, but with ALL the dangerous effects of smoking, why chance it?? Do NOT buy another pack, and go right now, not just to the trash can, but to the sink, and run water over your last cigarettes, and then pat yourself on the back, and say, "Yay! I did a great thing for myself."

Hello mdw2007

LISTEN to all this advise. I remember when I was in 7th grade and a man came to school with x-rays of black lungs from smoking! I did not smoke until my senior year, and have been addicted (32 years) until 2 weeks ago when they cut out half my tongue, and cut me from ear to ear and removed a golf ball sized tumor from under my chin. All caused by smoking. I can't believe it, but now, somehow, by the grace of God, I have lost my desire to smoke.

August made me laugh when she said go right now, not just to the trash can, but to the sink. Do you know why she said that? It is because you will go dig the cigarettes out of the garbage later, and scrape any crap thats on them off and smoke them. Even if the filter is broke, you WILL smoke them. By "soaking" them, it makes it almost impossible to smoke them. I did say ALMOST. I found that 1 minute in the microwave would do the trick. It would get you a few hits until you could go buy another pack.

I finally gave up wetting them down because I would just have to go buy another pack, and being thrify as I am, I saw no reason to waste a good pack of cigarettes. Throwing them out of a moving automobile is effective, but don't get caught. ($500.00 littering) And you will just buy another pack at the next store anyway.

So my advise is to quit now before you become so addicted that you will dig in a garbage can to get a "hit". For the sake of averages, let's say cigarettes never changed cost in the last 32 years and they cost $2.50 a pack. Well I smoked 2 packs a day. So, let's just add this up for $hits & giggles! 2 packs 5.00 x 365 days = $1,825.00 x 32 years = $58,400.00! WOW! If I had put that in a 401k, I bet I'd have almost $150,000.00. Almost, but not quite enough to pay for the surgery & radiation treatments. WOW! Just makes me want to light one up!

CIGARS, CIGARETTES, CHAW, CANCER ANYONE???

"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, and smoke like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."

Petey


You always have a comical way of looking at things !

Petey!
You slay me!!