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In reply to the discussion: Just ban cigarettes already. Please. [View all]onenote
(46,082 posts)After all, there are scientists who dispute claims that climate change has been "definitively" proven. Indeed, I suspect I could dig around and find some scientist that disputes that evolution has been "definitively proven."
But that doesn't change the fact that the overwhelming consensus of the scientific and medical community is and has been for decades that there is a significant causal link between cancer and cigarette smoke.
In fact, you should check out what Philip Morris, the cigarette company has to say about it on its website:
"PM USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. Smokers are far more likely to develop serious diseases, like lung cancer, than non-smokers. There is no safe cigarette."
If you can find a single, credible scientific study that disputes the cancer/cigarette link and establishes that its just an "opinion,", I'd love to see it.