Do Hobbits get Lung Cancer?

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli

The hobbits had no idea that athelas was any more than a weed.

That doesn't matter. Things can be good for you even if you dont know they are. Of cousre, there is the opposite, the placebo...
But I don't think athelas was one, especially since, Merry and Eowyn (for example, there were more cases), were in shock when the athelas was used on them

[obloquy]

Everybody knows that cancer only becomes deadly once you know you have it.

[zxcvbn]

I don't think end-of-life diseases like cancer existed in Middle Earth. The impression I got from reading the books was when mortals grew old, they usually just died of old age.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Laurinquë

Well I for one am very glad that those Hobbits wern't smoking cigarettes, we might have never gotten to see them in LOTR, they may have died earlier if what the Witch King of Angmar says is true.

Oh Robi, I don't think that you can kill off a species just by them having one little bad habit!

Originally Posted by zxcvbn

I don't think end-of-life diseases like cancer existed in Middle Earth. The impression I got from reading the books was when mortals grew old, they usually just died of old age.

Hmmm... I think that's a good point, Tolkien probably didn't want to have unnecessary decieses in ME

Originally Posted by obloquy

Everybody knows that cancer only becomes deadly once you know you have it.

What! No, you can have cancer and be sick and not know you have it and still die! I doesn't happen very much, but you can still die if your sick and not know what it is.

[Nerwen]

Ah... I rather think obloquy was making a joke.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Ah... I rather think obloquy was making a joke.

Well that makes me feel better, because when you have a parent in the medical field and you read her text books, then you might get somewhat uptight about those things.