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statistically that is an inaccurate statement. anecdotal information is always nice but that is not what science is based upon. that is part of the problem of methodolgy with the surgeon general’s various reports. there is too much that is anecdotal ( eg no autopsy, man smoked for years, had emphysema (diagnostic)-—conclusion most likely died of lung cancer.)

I do not want to pick a fight. I am just tired of the folks in the nanny state deciding ( and this started years ago) that doing good quality science and research isn’t as important as the agenda.

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I do not want to pick a fight. I am just tired of the folks in the nanny state deciding ( and this started years ago) that doing good quality science and research isn’t as important as the agenda.

Good because you would be picking a fight with the WRONG person. I work in the clinical trials industry and my wife is a clinical pharmacist. Regardless, it doesn't take a billion dollar clinical study to prove the effects of smoking though many have been accomplished and have proven smoking causes cancer.