The raffish WHO folks can finally say there is no determination between folks who smoke and lung cancer. Nor is there any finding that second-hand smoke causes lung cancer.
Smoking is Safe
Now, heart disease is another matter.
I saw that thread Slippy. At the risk of pissing off some of my friends, I posted a link on that thread to the Philip Morris USA website that asserts quite the opposite of the conclusions of the World Health Organization. Normally, I would expect that research data from a "health organization" would be more reliable and less agenda driven than data published on the site of a Tobacco company. In this case however, the reverse appears to be the case.
Philip Morris Company: There is no such thing as a "safe" cigarette