What researchers at Cato actually say about smoking and lung cancer is that, while smoking cigarettes is a high risk factor for lung cancer, militant anti-tobacco activists actually lie about the statistics.
Example, anti-tobacco activists claimed that "smoking cigarettes caused 400,000 smoking related deaths", when, in fact, deaths from all causes from infancy to extreme old age averaged 427,000 per year.
From Cato: "The truth is that smoking-related deaths, even under the generous definitions used by CDC, are associated with old age. Nearly 60 percent of the deaths occur at age 70 or above; nearly 45 percent at age 75 or above; and almost 17 percent at the grand old age of 85 or above! Nevertheless, without the slightest embarrassment, the public health community persists in characterizing those deaths as "premature." Regrettable, yes; premature, no."
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Just because you don't like the way they analyze your favorite militant activist's statistics doesn't make them wrong. |
