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That truly is admirable. These examples of ignorance remind me of my own similar anecdote: I attended a dinner, out of politeness, with my grandparents and th
by oxide 9y ago
That truly is admirable.
These examples of ignorance remind me of my own similar anecdote:
I attended a dinner, out of politeness, with my grandparents and their friends. A man staying with them saw me puffing on my personal vaporizer, cornered me, and proceeded to tell me that he was diagnosed with lung cancer after trying to switch to a PV himself.
"I smoked cigarettes for 30 years, never had a problem. Those electric things cause cancer!"
Now, I know there is no long term research into electronic cigarettes or their health effects. However, he was clear that he had only quit cigarettes for maybe 2 months before being diagnosed.
To suggest, with a straight face, that 30 years of cigarette smoke couldn't possibly be responsible for his lung cancer...I'm not sure how he came to such a conclusion other than misinformation.
- sandworm101 9y agoLung cancer is a strange one. As smoking levels drop, in some populations one can say that "most" lung cancer has nothing to do with smoking. So the doc has 10 patients with lung cancer, but only one of them is a smoker. With such numbers is gets hard to say that smoking was the cause. It was easy when the same doc had 30 patients and 21 were smokers, but times change. Statistics are hard and need to be revisited regularly.
- worldsayshi 9y agoWell that kind of reasoning doesn't seem factual at all... You would need to see that smokers have a higher prevalence of lung cancer than the general population to prove anything. Not "the other way around". Edit: hmm, unsure of that grammar. (Non native)