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Your stats are wrong ... see if anyone else repeats these ... before a nanny state ping ...

Here are my stats, which show a greater lifetime risk of contracting lung cancer from smoking tobacco.

Bureau of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario.

Life table methodology was used to estimate the probability of developing lung cancer by smoking status. Lifetime risks of developing lung cancer were estimated for six hypothetical cohorts (males, females, male current smokers, male never smokers, female current smokers, and female never smokers). Estimates of smoking mortality and incidence rates were calculated based on Canadian rates observed over the period 1987 to 1989. It was found that 172/1,000 of male current smokers will eventually develop lung cancer; the similar probability among female current smokers was 116/1,000. For those who never smoked on a regular basis the lifetime risk was substantially reduced. Only 13/1,000 males and 14/1,000 females in this category will develop lung cancer. When smoking status is not adjusted for, the lifetime risk of developing lung cancer is approximately 96/1,000 and 43/1,000 for males and females respectively.

PMID: 7895211 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Source link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=7895211&ordinalpos=29&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Do you have other stats to contradict these, which are borne out again and again in the medical literature?

And what is this about the nanny-state?

Nothing in my post mentioned prohibiting anything. I asked a question about cancer rates. That is a scientific question, not a political one.

Maybe you're smoking something and you read my post in a way it was not written or intended. You don't have to admit anything. We will know ....

You have a source that shows that smoking tobacco presents less than the lifetime risks in this fairly typical study, I would be glad to learn of it.

And yes, I worked in a radiation therapy/oncology unit to put myself college. I do see the reasons for not inhaling heated air and chemicals into one's lungs. But I also recognize that each individual has a right to do what they wish with tobacco.

Let's confine things to the facts here, not your misunderstanding regarding what was not asked.