Did I just save Robert’s life?

You’re being ironic, right? This is a case where the cure is the disease.
I guess the “not funny” part is that some of those dead people didn’t choose to smoke, but got the smoke anyway.

Never said anything about going into a bar, TW, but nice try. I have always been talking about smoking in public places, where non smokers get their rights violated, and with deadly results.
Even the statistics don’t convince the hardcore ideologues, I see.

Maybe you should just choose not to go in the bar with the smokers Robert.
Trust me, they’re not having that good of a time.

That was my point, not that BC doesn’t deserve some attention but that
others don’t get any attention.

My 32 yo sil has breast cancer. No family history, no risk factors, nada. She has just finished up a year of double mastectomy, chemo, radiation and the first reconstructive surgery.

I don’t mind all the pink items you can buy, as it raises money, and if can find a cure for one cancer, you are that much ahead of finding a cure for all cancer.

That being said, my grandfather died of Colon cancer and I don’t think that gets much attention. I don’t know why Breast Cancer is so specifically targeted for attention, except for the mom factor. Everybody has a mom and most people love their moms, and for some reason the mom is the closest to most people’s hearts, so it just naturally draws more attention? I don’t know, but there needs to be more attention drawn to other cancers if you want them to get the same kind of notice. It will take “famous” people most likely to bring attention to it and get the big bucks raised for research

Uh, I don’t mind it so much. I’m always ready for a “buddy check”, to “raise awarness”. Just ask my wife.

This is very interesting information. I always thought breast cancer was one of the most common and deadly cancers but apparently I was wrong. One cancer that is known to be very uncommon is tesicular cancer. Testicular Cancer Symptoms are very suble but often treatable at early stages

I think Whistler’s got a fair point here. When was the last time you heard about a campaign to cure an illness that most afflicts men?

This article brings up some good points:

Men die six years sooner than women. There are more than four widows for every widower.

So, it would only seem fair that more health research and health education dollars be spent on men than on women. Yet in the budget of every federal health agency, more money is spent on women’s health than on men’s. There are seven federal health agencies specifically for women. Not one for men. 39 of the 50 states have an office of women’s health, only six have one for men. A search of more than 3,000 medical journals listed in Index Medicus found that 23 articles were written on women’s health for each one written on men’s. Although a woman is only 14 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than a man is from prostate cancer, funding for breast cancer research is 660 percent greater than funding for prostate cancer research. Even the post office has gotten into the act: there is only one disease for which you can buy a postage stamp and the profits will go to research to cure the disease: breast cancer, even though heart disease kills millions more men prematurely. Before the age of 65, men die of heart attacks at three times the rate of women.

The bias against men is not limited to government-funded efforts. Even though men die younger and men’s last years are spent in worse health than women’s, most media and private sector attention goes to women’s health: features on menopause on CNN, articles on osteoporosis in the Kaiser Permanente newsletter, and nonstop corporate-sponsored fundraisers for breast cancer: runs for breast cancer, walks for breast cancer, even go to an A’s game for breast cancer. Baseball, a game played by and watched primarily by men, has a Breast Cancer Day, but not a Heart Attack Day, even though millions more people—primarily men—die prematurely of heart disease. Yet when the media pays attention to heart disease, most of it is focused on women, even though women get heart disease long after the average man is dead.

I’m all for beating breast cancer. My grandmother battled breast cancer for the better part of a decade, so I’ve got a personal reason to want to see the disease eradicated.

That being said, to deny that there is a serious bias toward women’s health in America is to deny reality.

Whoops, here’s a link for that article:

http://www.martynemko.com/articles/should-we-pay-more-attention-mens-health_id1231

Truly said by you about breast cancer. I hope readers may get more aware about breast cancer after reading you post. 
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