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Bear in mind that I say this in the most respectful manner possible: Do you believe everything you read on the Internet?
by j_baker 16y ago
Bear in mind that I say this in the most respectful manner possible: Do you believe everything you read on the Internet?
- Alex3917 16y agoNo, of course not, I only cited the UMASS pamphlet because it's the most well written summary of the information. But every other source from the NY Times to Wikipedia says basically the same thing, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/opinion/01proctor.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/opinion/01proctor.html
- cromulent 16y agoI read that NYT link and it seems to say the opposite - that smoking does cause cancer. "What few experts will dispute is the magnitude of the hazard: the World Health Organization estimates that 10 million people will be dying annually from cigarettes by the year 2020 — a third of these in China. Cigarettes, which claimed about 100 million lives in the 20th century, could claim close to a billion in the present century."
- Alex3917 16y agoOnly a third of the people who die from smoking die from cancer. And again, it doesn't seem to be the tobacco but rather the radioactive material and the additives. Cigarette smokers in other countries have vastly lower rates of cancer.