Push yourself away from the computer. Pick up your dictionary ( I assume a smart guy like you has one). Look up the word "correlation". Now look up the word "causation" (This should be fairly easy for you; we're still in the "c" file, not that many pages for you to turn). Discern difference.
Correlation does not equal causation.
However, metesky have chosen to approach this topic from a more juvenile point of view. You bravely hid behind your keyboard and made a series of personal attacks. This is perhaps the weakest form of debate. Face it metesky; you are a cowardly sniper. I doubt you possess the ability to argue without getting personal, so I thought maybe you would like to be insulted on-line; as you saw fit to do to me. You see, I'm capable of stooping to your level too.
Actually, I'm quite a bold sniper, especially when presented with a big juicy slow moving target, one that purposely tries to confuse the meaning of words to make nonsense points, one that claims to be a conservative yet constantly yelps about the lifestyles of others, one so altruistic as to demand that all others conform to his pure style of living, mawkishly yapping at the heels of independent adult citizens, "If I can do it, you can too."
What if we don't want to quit, cowgirl? Until the gooberment and twits like you get the cajones to ban tobacco, STFU.
Besides, all your huffing and puffing (pardon the expression) has already put you far below my level and that of all the fine smokers and property rights defenders on this and other tobacco related threads.
But still, we want to thank you for your concern and for bringing us all these health statistics that so very few of us mature adult smokers who have been hashing the subject around for five years or so, really hadn't been aware of.
You can be our research department from now on, our go-to-guy, OK?
cor·re·la·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kôr-lshn, kr-) n.
A causal, complementary, parallel, or reciprocal relationship, especially a structural, functional, or qualitative correspondence between two comparable entities: a correlation between drug abuse and crime. Statistics. The simultaneous change in value of two numerically valued random variables: the positive correlation between cigarette smoking and the incidence of lung cancer; the negative correlation between age and normal vision.
An act of correlating or the condition of being correlated.
Denial, the last refuge of the ignorant. I'd suggest you take your own advice, and pick up a dictionary, as you obviously have no idea what you are babbling about. Snipers make such easy debate opponents, for just about all they know is attack the person, rather than learn the material.
BTW, as you apparently don't know how to do this, here's the Link