Peter Attia· MD
Pollution constitutes another important risk factor.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Pollution constitutes another important risk factor.
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while smoking is the you know by by and far far away the largest risk factor it is not the only risk factor and really anybody who has lungs can get lung cancer
it strongly suggests that it's multifactorial right that it's one of these um as as are many of course of our chronic illnesses that have genetic components that have uh like the cardiovascular diseases for example right where it's not about a single gene the vast majority of the time it is contributions probably from multiple uh genetic variants that in aggregate elevate the risk and then there may also be of course on top of that than some further environmental factors that aren't smoking that that may then interact with that genetic background
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