"J. Williams" wrote:
> She maintained, in spite of the Surgeon General's report and other
> studies I quoted, that smoking doesn't "cause" cancer or heart
> disease. Her proof was she and her sister (my aunt) both lived to be
> over 90 and were chain smokers. She insisted there are other factors
> which accounted for the deaths of long-time smokers.
A common type of argument.
By the same logic being shot, being run over by a car or falling out
of an aeroplane aren't causes of death. There are documented cases
of people do all three and not dying. QED.
Thom
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