ive gotten quite good at ignoring pics on tobacco packets.i dont want to see those pics on my favourite interweb page.
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yes science has proven those correlations. can you run a mile without being winded? neither can i. that'll be the tar in your lungs shrinking their capacity.
my o my, haven't we been having a lot of pro-smoking conspiracy smoke (c wut i did thar?) lately?
What are hoax tags, some kind of nicotine patch?
(Being fair, I can't run a mile at all, and I've never smoked in my life).
My favourite type of deluded, deliberately ignorant imbecile is someone who treats science as some sort of homogenous, nebulous organisation ("science has proven"/"science hasn't proven") while both utterly failing to understand how the process of science actually works (because science is a verb, not a noun) nor bothering to perform any research into the matter (you know, the first bloody stage of any science).
Science hasn't only showed the strong correlation between smoking and illness, it also determined several of the exact processes going on.
My favourite example: Your white bloodcells continuously secrete digestive enzymes collectively known as trypsin. Living tissue resists it, while dead tissue breaks down and leaves room for healthy cells to rebuild.
Every step of the process is well known. Biochemistry and statistics say the same thing. Science established the link from more than one front.
Good for you! Keep smoking. In fact, I recommend you add at least a pack a day to your current level.
I was going to say, "Wow, this person has an extremely high standard for how much evidence they must see before accepting something."
But, they're on Above Top Secret, so... they're probably just fucking stupid.
Your name will be lacrimosa, all right, the day and hour you sit, as I did, holding your dying mother's hand and knowing you could have had her years longer if only anyone had taken the warnings seriously.
Doctors study. Incredibly famous, fairly old, so conclusive it was concluded and published early due to the danger to public health a delay in publication would bring.
Tl;dr: you failed research for ever.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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