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>Decades ago everyone _knew_ smoking caused cigarettes. Surrealists, dadaists and fans of retrocausality tried in vain to warn us that smoking caused cigarette

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Surrealists, dadaists and fans of retrocausality tried in vain to warn us that smoking caused cigarettes At risk of taking this typo-launched tangent far too seriously, smoking absolutely caused cigarettes, and without retrocausality; cigarettes weren't the first vehicle for smoking, and were developed as a result of the popularity of the practice.
• RobertRoberts 9y ago
  lol, wow, I have a slight issue with transposing information... it caught me this time. Watch out you may catch lung cigarettes...
• verylittlemeat 9y ago
  You might be interested to learn that one of the fathers of modern statistics believed this too https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe/ https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...