[Stratos]

Originally Posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood Nice quadruple post Stratos! Wow, can you say "edit" button boys and girls??

I did a "Yorick"; multiple post after one another.

Actually, with that avatar, I don't blame. I know you don't want to be thought of as worshiping false gods!

Acually I had the Dreadnoks avatar before.

My mom had breast, lymph node, and uvula cancer. Over the past few years. Yes, she still smokes! I asked her how many body parts they would have to cut out, before she gets it.

My maternal grandmother was like that.

I think the real question is: "What is killing us"? Is it our food, our environment, or what? Or some combo, or all, or more. I don't believe people were getting cancer in droves hundreds of years ago. I may be wrong.

Well, cancer is mostly associated with old age and people didn't live as long before. A hundred years ago I don't know, but cancer was probably pretty common back then as well. Our modern lifestyles might increase the risk of cancer but probably not by fantastic magnitudes.

I don't think the Sun is much of a cause of skin cancer either. If that were true, I think we would be extinct, or if you're in the evolution crowd, would have built up immunities.

I suspect the reason here is that people prone to develop skin cancer, light-skinned people, expose more of their skin directly to the sun nowadays compared to, say, a hundred years ago. I mean, bikinis would not be acceptable article of clothing back then.