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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am HORRIFIED at the likening of cancer to addiction.  I have lost family members to both and the ones who died of cancer, my extremely health-conscious mother included, could have done NOTHING to prevent it.  That is simply not true with addiction - you can't always beat it, but you can TRY.

I'm actually shaking with anger at this comparison.[/quote]

You're entitled to your feelings, however, no one is personally attacking you or your poor mother. The world is not so black and white, good vs. bad. It's naive to believe that there is never a correlation between addiction (or even behavior) and cancer. It's a fact that addiction is strongly associated with many forms of cancer. Liver cancer is linked to alcoholism, as well as obesity and diabetes (potentially caused by food addiction). Smoking--including smoking drugs--has has been linked to cancer of the lung, breast, bladder, cervix and kidney. Chewing tobacco has been linked to cancer of the oral cavity and pancreas. Cancer of the breast, prostate, lung, colon and kidney can be linked to obesity. Sex, alcohol, and drug addictions lead to risky behavior and can increase the risk of HIV, HPV, Hep B & C, which in turn can lead to numerous forms of cancer, e.g., anus, cervix, lung, penis, throat, vulva, vagina, liver.

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fine, but that's not relevant or particularly rational.  my mother's cancer was not caused by addiction, nor is addiction always, or even usually, a precursor to cancer.  cancer kills the innocent.[/quote]

No cancer kills the innocent, the guilty and everything on the spectrum in between.

Acknowledging addiction as an illness does not take all responsibility for choices away from the addict. If someone has heart disease that was cause din part by stress, working too much, eating on the run  - yes they could have made different choices but it doesn't change the fact that heart disease is still a medical condition that needs treatment. Same with obesity, while poor choices around eating and exercise are part of it they oversimplify the issue and the development of diabetes and other high blood pressure are still diseases even if they come solely from the actions of the person. I doubt someone who died from heart disease or a stroke would merit the same distaste and lack of compassion as are expressed here, even though they too made choices that contributed to their own demise.

I agree too that addiction is often hand in hand with mental illness and that further fogs the choices one makes. [/quote]

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