I helped organize an event at an exploratorium in August. Not all of us have forgotten the Old Ways.

They also looked at women but apparently they didn't get enough women smokers in Korea to have statistical power to draw strong conclusions so ymmv. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam....

Cancer Risk Following Smoking Cessation in Korea

This Korean cohort study investigates the time course of cancer risk according to the time elapsed since smoking cessation and the benefits of smoking cessation according to the age at quitting.

According to the same study quitting before the age of 50 shows quicker decreases in lung cancer risk.

In general your risk will keep decreasing and around 10 years it is similar to non smokers.

I actually think Minnesota is now in the camp of leans blue enough that if Kamala loses it the election is already a landslide loss. But I think keeping it that way is a decent reason to strategically vote.

I'll probably vote for Claudia De La Cruz but I'm not excited about it.

I'll vote for democrats basically everywhere but president because in California my vote does not matter for president so I may as well vote for a socialist I at least nominally agree with.

I think people placing the weight of ending empire on their vote is delusional.

Exactly, this isn't even the first time we've enthusiastically supported ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. This is hardly a special circumstance.

If you think voting 3rd party or writing in uncommitted will change the trajectory of the genocide for Palestinians you are delusional. Unfortunately, in the heart of empire genocide in the only option on the table currently and your vote will not change that.