If a parent smokes cigarettes and develops lung cancer, is this trait passed on to the offspring?

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Slade Leach

Biology

13 December, 19:55

If a parent smokes cigarettes and develops lung cancer, is this trait passed on to the offspring?

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Vaughn Whitehead · Answer 1

If the parent is a carrier of lung disease then the child may have that chance of getting it.

Dante Gutierrez · Answer 2

The role of heredity of lung cancer does enhance the threat to a certain extent, however, lung cancer is more possible to be associated with a genetic predisposition in women, in young adults, and in lung cancer in non-smokers.

Smokers who are prone to lung cancer are less likely to exhibit a family history in comparison to the non-smoker who form lung cancer. However, in case, if anyone is exhibiting a genetic predisposition to lung cancer, then smoking seems to exaggerate that threat.