[Judith Anne]

I only referred to ONE disease, cervical cancer. You have failed to show that it was smoking related, or provide any links which PROVE it, other than a statistical relationship, which is tenuous and non-scientific.

If all you have are statistics, your conclusions are suspect, non-scientific, and arbitrary.

Now, how about that governor who wants to raise taxes on cigarettes and liquor to help the schools? What do you say to her? Shouldn't she just work to ban smoking? After all, one or the other is for the children, she's just not sure that she wants people to quit, is she?

[cinFLA]

http://monographs.iarc.fr/htdocs/monographs/vol83/01-smoking.html


Cervical cancer

An association of invasive cervical squamous-cell carcinoma with smoking has been observed in the large number of studies reviewed. The most recent studies have controlled for infection with human papillomavirus, a known cause of cervical cancer. The effect of smoking was not diminished by the adjustment for human papillomavirus infection, or analysis restricted to cases and controls both positive for human papillomavirus (as ascertained by human papillomavirus DNA or human papillomavirus serological methods). There is now sufficient evidence to establish a causal association of squamous-cell cervical carcinoma with smoking. In the small number of studies available for adeno- and adeno-squamous-cell carcinoma, no consistent association was observed.