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Quote by: Technosoul  That is a good example of a bunch of statements and stats that are not backed up with any real proof that we can look it to confirm that the statements are correct.
87 percent are caused by smoking ... now honestly they are really saying that 87 percent of the people were also smokers who ended up with lung cancer. So what? 98 percent of them watched TV for more then 3 hours a day, so how come that is not the cause?
See how silly those facts are. Not REAL science.
What they did not study in their research is that the same amount of people suffered stress in their life and reacted to stress in like manner. So they did not note that as a potential cause.
They stated that cigarettes contain 4000 bad chemicals in them. Okay, what chemicals, and are they present in a large enough amount to have any affect? Oops, they forgot to mention that those chemicals are in such small trace amounts that they are not problematic for smokers. Or that you can buy organic cigarettes that do not contain some of the added chemicals they are concerned about, or that they could simply order the cigarette company to not add those extra chemicals. Dang it, they just based a warning on a half-truth. Oh well, the idea is to scare people so they do not blame those other industries, like them guys who make gasoline for your car. Or those airplanes for the military. Or blame those who tested A-bombs out in the open back in the 1940s and 1950s when the cancer illnesses first became a major concern.
You see, you showed me no real science, just made claims and expect me to take their word for it, like we did when they said Saddam had WMDs and bio-chemicals in his backyard.
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Real science huh? How about the wondrous effects of radiation on my fathers body? Or, perhaps all the heavy metals that were injected into his bloodstream? Better yet, how about the lovely effects of all the opiates he was forced to take that turned him into a drugged out zombie for the last 2 months of his life? He was allowed the joy of having 2 bouts of pneumonia and a cardiac event prior to the discovery of a baseball size tumor in his lungs, which slowly spread to his leg bones and his spinal cord. And what a surprise! The large tumor that started this lovely chain of events was determined to be caused by his smoking habit of 40 years, which was strange because we all thought it was because he watched 4 hours of TV every day instead of the recommended 3. In fact, he started watching even more TV after he was bedridden, which is probably why he died, not because of the advanced lung cancer.
Inhaling smoke of ANY kind is BAD. Your lungs are designed to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. If you breathe in anything other than air, it is BAD FOR YOU. You have seen the commercials that show a normal persons lung, a healthy looking pink blob of cuteness, and the lung of a smoker, which looks like a raisin that has been left out in the rain and stepped on a few times.
If you want to be in denial that your smoking habit is bad for you, thats fine. However, don't try to tell anyone, least of all me, that smoking isn't linked to lung cancer, because as both you and I know, thats bullshit.