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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Just want to point out that your anger is purely a function of your ignorance about addiction.  It's a disease.  No different than clinical depression, or anorexia/bulemia, or cancer.  You can get as angry as you like that folks who know more than you won't let you turn it into a battle of good versus evil, but that's your problem.[/quote]

I'm the one who posted about my mother's cancer, and others have agreed with me.  Clearly - obvious by the tone, spacing etc - there's one person here likening addiction to cancer.  They're both diseases, but they're not the same kind of disease, at all.  I don't even know what your last sentence means, and I never said addicts were evil, but I don't have time for this.  If you've struggled with addiction, I'm genuinely sorry.  We all have our demons.[/quote]

I don't care if others have agreed with you.  There are dumb people.  Look around.  You're irrationally upset because you think the disease of cancer should be provided some sort of rarified moral space that anorexia and depression (and addiction) should not be.  That's wrong.[/quote]

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