[ronnietherocket3]

So does this mean smoking does not cause lung cancer?My guess on resolving the contradiction is that smoking makes it easier to get lung cancer, but is not the actual cause. Similar to how AIDS doesn't actually kill, it just makes it easier to get other infections.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It’s more a matter of semantics. For the statement that “smoking causes lung cancer” to be true, everyone who ever smokes would need to get lung cancer, and this is not the case. However, smoking will increase a person’s risk of lung cancer by a statistically significant amount, and an individual case of lung cancer might well be caused directly by smoking.

This generally takes too long to explain in ordinary conversation, and most anti-smoking Nazis can’t understand it anyway.