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"cigarettes will kill me with a 100% probability" The murder victim rate of smokers is non zero, the road accident fatality rate of smokers is non zero. And o
by benj111 7y ago
"cigarettes will kill me with a 100% probability"
The murder victim rate of smokers is non zero, the road accident fatality rate of smokers is non zero.
And on the other side the lung cancer rate of non smokers is non zero.
So you can't really say ahead of time you will even die of a smoking associated cause, and even if you did, you can't definitively state that it was caused by the smoking.
- objectivetruth 7y agoIs this level of pedantry generally helpful in offline interactions? Because it's certainly not in this particular online interaction. Virtually all humans would read the parent's post with an implied preface of "Unless I'm killed by an accident or asteroid or murder or one of a million other rare things not relevant to the topic at hand, it's VERY LIKELY that I will die from a smoking-related condition, or to put it colloquially..." BTW, "lung cancer" isn't the only smoking-related condition that can kill.