From the post:
“a USWM smoker has only an 8x more risk of dying from lung cancer than a nonsmoker.”
I’ll pass on increasing my risk of lung cancer 800%!
While what you posted is true, in context, a USWM non-smoker has a 1% chance of dying from lung cancer, and a USWM smoker has an 8% chance.
The point the author was making was that neither is near the 50% rate the State Run Media have tried to make us believe.