San Rafael Smoking Ban, Strictest In The Nation, Goes Into Effect

[azurnoir]

75. about those stats

my mother who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer died a few years ago she was having breakfast with a friend and suddenly collapsed in what appeared to be stroke or some sort of cerebral accident, she died a couple of days later having never regained consciousness but the cause of death on official papers -COPD, why because she had smoked 10 years earlier btw she was never diagnosed with COPD, what I was told was than in cases of people dying with no official autopsy being done and any history of smoking the catch all all cause of death was -COPD and if I wanted some else I could pay for an autopsy
But this has led me to question just how many of the listed smoking deaths are under similar circumstances?

I'm certainly not saying smoking isn't harmful but are the stats being inflated?