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From a public health standpoint it sounds like your pet peeve is that people don't tolerate "smoking in moderation".
by umvi 7y ago
From a public health standpoint it sounds like your pet peeve is that people don't tolerate "smoking in moderation".
- crazygringo 7y agoNot at all. It's that if light smokers self-identify as smokers in research, then it can mask the greater damage done in heavy smokers. While if light smokers self-identify as non-smokers, it may reduce the overall difference between true non-smokers and heavy smokers. Either way, it leads to the same kind of dangerous misinterpretation of data you'd have if there were only two categories "never drink" and "blackout drunk nightly".