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Hi my mum died in 2010 of small cell lung cancer and now her dad my grandad is dying of small cell lung cancer and I need to know could this run in the genes as I am 33 years old and was smoking since 11 years old but I've quit smoking and not smoked in 40days. 

I'm concerned this might run the the genes my mum died when she was 40 years old. 

I might be over exaggerating or worrying for nothing I'm a full time single dad and need to know if I need to get tested and my daughter as someone in my family said it can run in the genes and now I'm worrying about it but don't want to waste my doctors time any help and advice is greatly appreciated thank you. 

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    Hi Jayjay,

    My Mam asked me the same thing after several members of her immediate family died of cancer and she developed lung cancer. I wrote all their names down, as well as the ones who had never had cancer. Guess which group were the ones who smoked and were heavy drinkers - that combination is pretty deadly. There are at least 15 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking - it is suspected of causing several more. 

    Smoking tends to run in families. Kids grow up wanting to copy their parents and they wrongly associate smoking with being grown up. The good news is that by quitting you’ll also make it less likely that your kids will want to smoke. This will extend their life expectancy as well as your own. It will also save you all a small fortune - very expensive habit these days!

    Even better news is that once you quit, the damage done by smoking will start to heal. 

    Congratulations on being smoke free for 40 days and good luck with breaking the addiction for good!
    Dave

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    Hi Jayjay,

    My Mam asked me the same thing after several members of her immediate family died of cancer and she developed lung cancer. I wrote all their names down, as well as the ones who had never had cancer. Guess which group were the ones who smoked and were heavy drinkers - that combination is pretty deadly. There are at least 15 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking - it is suspected of causing several more. 

    Smoking tends to run in families. Kids grow up wanting to copy their parents and they wrongly associate smoking with being grown up. The good news is that by quitting you’ll also make it less likely that your kids will want to smoke. This will extend their life expectancy as well as your own. It will also save you all a small fortune - very expensive habit these days!

    Even better news is that once you quit, the damage done by smoking will start to heal. 

    Congratulations on being smoke free for 40 days and good luck with breaking the addiction for good!
    Dave

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