QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Thu 12th November 2009, 3:04pm)
QUOTE(Malleus @ Thu 12th November 2009, 2:55pm)
What have smokers' lungs got to do with anything? People who don't smoke also get lung cancer, for instance.
Yes, but people who smoke are 20 times more likely to. There are issues around causality - does smoking cause cancer, does being prone to cancer make people more likely to take up smoking to soothe their lungs, or is there an environmental factor common to smokers and people prone to cancer (poverty, increased likelihood of binge drinking, concentration in areas with high pollution levels)? - but you can't seriously be denying that there's a clear statistical relationship. Sorry, but you sound like a hardline NRA-er denying that there's any link between guns and people being shot.
Of course I'm not denying that there's a statistical relationship, but between what? Smoking and lung cancer? Smoking and social deprivation? Smoking and a genetic disposition to lung cancer?
Just to be clear, I don't smoke, I've never smoked, I dislike it, and I wish that nobody smoked.
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