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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.

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And just what clinical trials have you either read or been involved in that dealt with lung cancer and its causality. Your wife the pharmacist, I am sure, is a nice lady. Still has nothing to do with how the statistics were dealt with.