I'm asking this because in 2003, my dad died of lung cancer. He was an insulator and was exposed to asbestos for many years without knowing. We are still in the middle of a lawsuit and next month we have to go to court for something called Work-mans Comp. Some of the people my dad worked with are lying and won't admit that they too worked with asbestos at the time my dad did. They are afraid they'll lose their job because some of the men are still working for the company, so they are going to lie on the stand, even though one of the guys was the best man at my parents wedding. They are going to say he died because he was a smoker. The thing is, even though he was, the specialist who reviewed my dads Autopsy report said that the asbestos had something to do with it whether he was a smoker or not.

My mom is now older than my dad was when he died (he was 45) and she is still alive and she's a smoker, and so are many other of his friends who are his age and smoke. I was just wondering what age people usually die of lung cancer due to smoking? I think it could help with the case, but I'm not really sure. I'm just looking for all the answers I can get so I can kind of see if we have a good chance or not. We've been waiting five years for this to go through and we've been struggling to get by, especially with this economy. I would rather have my dad back, but he wanted this for us because he couldn't be here to support us. He wouldn't want my mom to struggle like she has. We are about to lose our house, so if we win, everything would be okay. I need advice or someone elses opinion on what might happen.

Thanks in advance

-Tammy
The lawsuit is separate from the Work-mans comp, sorry if I made it sound like it was just one thing. What I'm basically worried about is the Work-mans comp. I just wanted to clear that up, sorry.

My question is if it could somehow endanger me of the cancer it can cause

By George F. Will
Sunday, February 21, 2010; A19
Science, many scientists say, has been restored to her rightful throne because progressives have regained power. Progressives, say progressives, emulate the cool detachment of scientific discourse. So hear the calm, collected voice of a scientist lavishly honored by progressives, Rajendra Pachauri.
He is chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 version of the increasingly weird Nobel Peace Prize. Denouncing persons skeptical about the shrill certitudes of those who say global warming poses an imminent threat to the planet, he says:
"They are the same people who deny the link between smoking and cancer. They are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder -- and I hope they put it on their faces every day."
Do not judge him as harshly as he speaks of others. Nothing prepared him for the unnerving horror of encountering disagreement. Global warming alarmists, long cosseted by echoing media, manifest an interesting incongruity -- hysteria and name-calling accompanying serene assertions about the "settled science" of climate change. Were it settled, we would be spared the hyperbole that amounts to Ring Lardner's "Shut up, he explained."
The global warming industry, like Alexander in the famous children's story, is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Actually, a bad three months, which began Nov. 19 with the publication of e-mails indicating attempts by scientists to massage data and suppress dissent in order to strengthen "evidence" of global warming.
But there already supposedly was a broad, deep and unassailable consensus. Strange.
Next came the failure of The World's Last -- We Really, Really Mean It -- Chance, a.k.a. the Copenhagen climate change summit. It was a nullity, and since then things have been getting worse for those trying to stampede the world into a spasm of prophylactic statism.
In 2007, before the economic downturn began enforcing seriousness and discouraging grandstanding, seven western U.S. states (and four Canadian provinces) decided to fix the planet on their own. California's Arnold Schwarzenegger intoned, "We cannot wait for the United States government to get its act together on the environment." The 11 jurisdictions formed what is now called the Western Climate Initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2012.
Or not. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently suspended her state's participation in what has not yet begun, and some Utah legislators are reportedly considering a similar action. Brewer worries, sensibly, that it would impose costs on businesses and consumers. She also ordered reconsideration of Arizona's strict vehicle emission rules, modeled on incorrigible California's, lest they raise the cost of new cars.
Last week, BP America, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar, three early members of the 31-member U.S. Climate Action Partnership, said: Oh, never mind. They withdrew from USCAP. It is a coalition of corporations and global warming alarm groups that was formed in 2007 when carbon rationing legislation seemed inevitable and collaboration with the rationers seemed prudent. A spokesman for Conoco said: "We need to spend time addressing the issues that impact our shareholders and consumers." What a concept.
Global warming skeptics, too, have erred. They have said there has been no statistically significant warming for 10 years. Phil Jones, former director of Britain's Climatic Research Unit, source of the leaked documents, admits it has been 15 years. Small wonder that support for radical remedial action, sacrificing wealth and freedom to combat warming, is melting faster than the Himalayan glaciers that an IPCC report asserted, without serious scientific support, could disappear by 2035.
Jones also says that if during what is called the Medieval Warm Period (circa 800-1300) global temperatures may have been warmer than today's, that would change the debate. Indeed it would. It would complicate the task of indicting contemporary civilization for today's supposedly unprecedented temperatures.
Last week, Todd Stern, America's special envoy for climate change -- yes, there is one; and people wonder where to begin cutting government -- warned that those interested in "undermining action on climate change" will seize on "whatever tidbit they can find." Tidbits like specious science, and the absence of warming?
It is tempting to say, only half in jest, that Stern's portfolio violates the First Amendment, which forbids government from undertaking the establishment of religion. A religion is what the faith in catastrophic man-made global warming has become. It is now a tissue of assertions impervious to evidence, assertions that everything, including a historic blizzard, supposedly confirms and nothing, not even the absence of warming, can falsify.
georgewill@washpost.com
Jeff M. you obviously don't understand science, science is entirely about skepticism.
Fary F.'s comments below show how ridiculous the alarmist movement is and Will explained that quite clearly on the attacks by this leftist radical group. No Will is not a scientist... did someone say Al Gore was? Or the politicians that did follow this garbage hook line and sinker... oops until they see that support is falling and thus have vacated the premise.

I'm 17 years old and eleven months ago I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the core of my brian. The tumor was removed, but that's not what I'm curious about. I've been smoking cigarettes for about a year now and a few months ago I developed a cough. It doesn't sound like anything worse than a common cold cough and I dismissed it as nothing, but it hasn't gone away. It isn't a constant cough either.. one to three times a day i'll just cough out of nowhere, sometimes there is phlegm in the cough, but I've never examined it for any signs of blood. On top of the cough, I went to a grade school for 9 years which was very very old and falling apart in some ways. Supposedly the building carried asbestos and even though the risks of that are mainly in the demolition of a building....there were holes in the walls and many patches among the piping. In the past 2 years, 3 kids (myself included) who attended the school were diagnosed with some kind of cancer. I had a brain tumor, another had lymphoma, and the last one had something in his leg. Are the coughs normal or should I be concerned? Let me know
Something I forgot to add...a few months ago I lost 30 lbs in 3 weeks doing almost nothing. I went from 195 lbs. to 162 lbs. I've always had a fast metabolism but this striked me as a little extreme

After my grandfather past away many years ago I began coughing up a whitish, yellowish mucous. This has been going on for a year or two. I had been taking care of him for over ten years. My grandfather had lung cancer & worked in chemical plants with asbestos. Since going to a doctor about 4 months ago, I was diagnosed with a staff infection. The doctor prescribed me with antibiotics. It went away & now it's back. I am still spitting or coughing up this flem. It gets stuck in my throat & drives me crazy. What can I do, is this dangerous?

I think they are. Heath Ledger sustained wounds from shards of the World Trade Center while he was walking near the buildings when they collapsed. He died because the asbestos from the building shards leaked into his bloodstream and gave him cancer. He kept the cancer from killing him with chemo for seven years but then he died =( I'm a personal friend of his mother and that's what she told me. R.I.P. good buddy.

I was cleaning out my grandads shed, because he is ill and has the disease mesiotheloma, and we moved some stuff that may have contained or is asbestis. Plus, we found out that there is asbestis in the walls of the shed, and that if the walls were knocked or vibrated, it would disturb the asbestis fibres within. So, what im wondering and im quite worried about, is would i be at risk of breathing in these asbestos fibres, and developing a related cancer to asbestosis or something?

Now i bet she has cancer
BUT WE WILL ONLY KNOW IN 25-40
YEARS! I CANT WAIT THAT LONG I WANT TO FIND OUT AND GET RID OF IT NOW!
AND MAYBE I HAVE IT TOO!
IM SO SCARED AND UPSET WHAT IS GOINNG TO HAPPEN TO US!?
you are all very cruel people.
and very insensitive too/
if you dont have anything constructive to say please don't try and be rude to me for your own pleasure

Which of the following is not a form of ribonucleic acid or RNA?
A. messenger RNA
B. Ribosomal
C. Transfer RNA
D. Translation RNA

During transcription the genic information is rewritten as a molecule of
A. messenger RNA
B. Ribosomal
C. Transfer RNA
D. Translation RNA

In a cell the equipment for translation is located in the
A cytoplasm
B Nucleus
C Plasma membrane
D Centrioles

The steriod hormone responsible for secondary sex characteristics in female verrebrates is called
A Progesterone
B Estrogen
C Testosterone
D Ribosome

If a nucleotide is a gene is replaced with a diffrent nucleaotide so that the codon UGU becomes UGC
A The substitution has little effect because UGU and UGC both translate into the same amino-cysteine
B The substitution has little effect because UGU translates into the amino acid cysteine and UGC translates into phenylalanine
C the protein that the gene codes for would be short and incomplete because UGC is a stop codon
D The protein that the gene codes for would be short and incomplete because UGU is a stop codon

True or false questions
gene expression occurs in two phases: transcription and transformation

In eukaryotic cells, the RNA nucleaotides are found in the nucleus

Transcription follows the same base-pairing rules as DNA replication without exception

The anticodon of tRNA is so named because its three-nucleotide sequence is complementary to one of the 64 codons of the genetic code

Mutations in the body cells can be passed on to offspring of the affected individual

an oncogene is a gene that when mutated can cause a cell to become cancerous

fill in the blank questions

Instead of the base thymime found in DNA RNA has a base called _____________

Transcription begins when an enzyme called ____________________ binds to the beginning of a gene on a region of DNA called a promoter

The instructions for building a protein are written as a series of three-nucleotide sequences called________________

During Translation tRNA molecules bind to ribosome at two sites _________________________________ ______________________ and the ___________________________________

_______________________ are environmental agents that induce mutations

cancer-causing agents such as asbestos, benzene and other industrial pollitants are referred to as ______________

____________________ is a term used to indicate a disease characterized by abnormal cell growth

A mass of cancerous cells is called_________

The spread of mailgnant cells beyond their originals site is called____________

Briefly explain how RNA differs from DNA

Briefly describe the function of two forms of RNA

Summarize the process of translation

Briefly desribe the three kinds of point mutations

Why are malignant tumors considered more harmful tan benign turmors?

At what age does cancer typically occur in humans? why?

Okay that all, Thanks for the help.

The CSI Field kits I looked up are excellent, Im a BIG fan of forensics but I also read that it was recalled because the print powder contains asbestos that could cause lung cancer, I thought it was just a fake lead, but I seen it on a video on youtube. Im thinking about getting one, but I wanna make sure if its true or not before I buy it, or did they fix it the fingerprinting powder to a non toxic one if its accidentally breathed in. Cause if its just in the fingerprint power I could just not use it or throw it out.