Philip Morris USA (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.These are and have been the messages of the U.S. Surgeon General and public health authorities worldwide. Smokers and potential smokers should rely on these messages in making all smoking-related decisions.
Click on the links to the right to obtain more information about cigarette smoking and disease in smokers directly from these public health organizations: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Cancer Society. Our Support of Consistent Public Health Messages PM USA supports a single, consistent public health message on the role played by cigarette smoking in the development of disease in smokers, as well as smoking and addiction. This includes our support of the law that requires cigarette manufacturers to place health warnings on packages and in advertisements and our belief that government and public health officials should determine the content of the warning messages.
Source: http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/health_issues/cigarette_smoking_and_disease.asp
Excellent posting of the truth.
However, the truth tends to be treated somewhat like the flat earth society on such threads.