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Are you arguing that people who smoke are simply predisposed to behaviours that cause lung cancer regardless of whether they smoke?
by armada651 2y ago
Are you arguing that people who smoke are simply predisposed to behaviours that cause lung cancer regardless of whether they smoke?
- frederikdss 2y agoNo, he’s not arguing about causation but about correlation. Confounding variables. For example, where I live cigarette use seems related with social class (being more prevalent with the poorer part of our population). That can correlate with living and working conditions, which can impact everything else
- sellmesoap 2y agoFrom the recent time I was on a construction site: all the carpenters and drywallers etc all went for smoke breaks all the time, use of protective gear was infrequent. This was only one site I saw others with better habits.
- throwaway290 2y agoSmoking seems to cause lung cancer in some people but we don't know what would happen to those people if they didn't smoke. It's likely in some people smoking happens with other habits that would cause one issue or another but in other people it's not that. The studies that try to generalize smoking to life expectancy seem questionable.