[milagro]

That first sentence makes NO sense!

[Chickensoup]

People who get lung cancer in the US are overwhelmingly smokers.

That is a small subset of all the US people who smoke, most who do not get lung cancer.

I wonder if this research is connected to research on how smokers were somehow covid protected.

[knarf]

Actually ... if true ... it does.

IF ... ALL lung disease is from smoking.

ALL death is the result of a heart ceasing to beat, but the CAUSE of that cessation could be one reason over another.

IF ALL lung cancer is caused by smoking, but only a few get it ... it is still a true statement

[cuban leaf]

That first sentence makes NO sense!

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It makes perfect sense to me. All it is saying is that of the cases of lung cancer that exist, smoking is usually the cause, but most smokers don’t get lung cancer.

To use imaginary numbers:

1000 cases of lung cancer.
900 of them are smokers.
9,000,000 smokers.

i.e. only a small number of smokers actually get lung cancer, which is why, using my “imaginary number” example, there are not 8 million cases of lung cancer.

I’ve been anti smoking for over 50 years but finally had to acknowledge about 25 years ago that though smoking can cause cancer, merely smoking is not nearly as high a risk of lung cancer as I thought. Being afraid of smoking is like being afraid to ride in a car without a seat belt. Sure, you “might” die. But statistically you almost certainly will not.

I’m no longer afraid of second hand cigarette smoke in the least. And a main reason is that I’m not a cat, which seems to be the animal it actually affects the most, by far.

[muir_redwoods]

It makes perfect sense. What it says is lung cancer is rare but the leading cause of it is smoking.