Q&A: What is the average age that smokers get lung cancer?

Question by Momothewallabe: What is the average age that smokers get lung cancer?
Statistically speaking, what is the average age that smokers who develop lung cancer are diagnosed? Again statistically speaking, how long has the average lung cancer patient who acquired the disease through smoking been smoking?

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Answer by haslo
Statistically, the lung cancers can occur after about 20 years of smoking…though the longer one smokes the higher the risk.

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