I’ll remember to tell my patients in the hospital dying of emphysema how much good smoking has done them. Ditto the ones dying of lung cancer. I’m sure they will enthusiastically agree with you.
Hi Mom MD. Long time no see.
I am confident that before long you will be assured that their cancer and emphysema came from something besides smoking. After all, we just saw study results that proved that smoking is good for you.
“I’ll remember to tell my patients in the hospital dying of emphysema how much good smoking has done them. Ditto the ones dying of lung cancer. I’m sure they will enthusiastically agree with you.”
You have no more business telling people how to live their lives, one way or the other, than their carpenter does, except their carpenter will not be so presumptuous. What do you tell them, what terrible people they were because they smoked?
Do all your patients who smoke have lung cancer? Do all your patients who smoke have emphysema. Do most of them have those things? If smoking causes them, why not?
And what pharmaceutical company is sponsoring you?
Hank