Actually I think you might want to look at this link before flat out saying smoking is not a risk factor for colon cancer. It is and its been known for some time. This is the latest study I could find See:
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer- ... sk-factors Http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/18/12/3362.longThe aim of these public service messages are to Shock! I can tell you from experience, there are plenty of people that would rather die, than have a permanent colonostomy. My great aunt who did not have cancer but a very bad c-dif infection gave up and let herself go rather than live with one when they wanted to remove the infectious area. It likely would have been temporary I would have thought but none the less, she refused, gave up and let go. Mind you she was in her early 90s and had led a pretty full life. A few years before she had fallen an broke her leg below the hip joint. She bounced back from that very quickly hardly slowed her down.. She was a tough old girl.
Again, there are also a lot of people that would rather not think about it than get scoped! My wife was one. It was too distasteful to think about until she had no choice. Afterwards she could kick herself for not having done it when she was supposed. To in the first place. It wasn't nearly as bad as she and like a large number of people are led to believe.
If this PSA shocks a few hundred or more people into quitting smoking by relating it to one of the most distasteful things they already imagine, all the better. Seems the one with the woman, missing a part of her jaw, no larnx, no hair Didn't seem to do enough. People still smoking..... Smoking introduces all sorts of nasty things into your body, and it doesn't just stop at the lungs. All sorts of damage can accrue from it as the levels of all sorts of molecules from the tars produced, enter your blood stream. Smokers and chewing tobacco users have all sorts of nasties enter their digestive track due to all that smoky saliva they swallow. Or from chew... I don't see them necessarily equating a colostomy to punishment. More that smoking increases your risk for CRC, and you might end up with one of these if you don't quit. Be honest, most of you until you got yours and learned to deal with it, likely thought it was the most terribly indignate thing one could do to you. But you learned to live with it. Let's face it fear motivates people much more than rational argument.
GrouseMan