Bet the ANTZ will try to pin this on us.

[guambred]

http: //news.yahoo.com/ archaeologists-discover-earliest-example-human-cancer-170147151.html


Perhaps cancer is not seen so much in archeology because most people died so young from so many other things.

 

[DrMA]

LOLz. It was probably third-hand smoke too

 

[AgentAnia]

Researchers from Durham University and the British Museum discovered the evidence of tumors that had developed and spread throughout the body in a 3,000-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in modern Sudan in 2013.

I expect we'll see an article by the Slantzz soon saying that tobacco was first smoked 3,005 years ago....

 

[Anjaffm]

I expect we'll see an article by the Slantzz soon saying that tobacco was first smoked 3,005 years ago....

ROFL!

 

[rothenbj]

http: //news.yahoo.com/ archaeologists-discover-earliest-example-human-cancer-170147151.html


Perhaps cancer is not seen so much in archeology because most people died so young from so many other things.

You know, there's a lot of truth there. It wasn't until 1970 that life expectancy rose to 70. Considering that most cigarette deaths hit around that time, there really were no stats they could use from earlier. The one thing that I always questioned was the blue collar nature of a great many smokers. You get heavy smoking in miners, auto mechanics, painters, truck drivers,soldiers and factory workers just to name a few occupations that have you inhaling a lot of stuff other than cigarette smoke. Over time there are a lot of influences on the lungs that can be quite negative.