I'm only 40 and won't be 41 for three more months. I took better care of myself than my buddies took care of themselves and was comparatively very moderate in my vices. By the numbers I'm way too young for my cancer to have been caused by smoking and drinking. As I have said on other threads, I believe it is a roll of the dice as to whether you get sick or not. It's not God's will and it's not punishment for past behavior. There is no justice or fairness to it any more than there is any justice or fairness in the rest of the natural world. It is completely offensive to me that anyone in the medical community would view this as intentionally self-induced. I have never met anyone who would wake up and say they were going to try and get cancer today. The acts of smoking and drinking are only a statistical correlation to increased chances of getting sick. Participation in these activities is no guarantee that you will get sick anymore than abstenance from these things guarantess that you won't get sick. Until there's something more concrete than statistics and theory, it's still a roll of the dice.

-Brett