Doug Farrago: “The bottom line is that those who choose a suicidal lifestyle like smoking already know the answer to stopping their impending cancer. I guarantee quitting smoking is a better predictor of those not getting lung cancer than this genetic test.”
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Oh no… So now my smoking neighbors and their smoking teenage kids will take this test, it’ll come out they aren’t at risk, and there’ll be no hope at all for me that they’ll quit one day.
They probably will not quit anyway, but at least with the fear of cancer there is hope.
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