Smoking Cancer Risks
The cluster focuses on debates about whether smoking causes cancer, its relative health risks compared to factors like COVID or pollution, and interpretations of studies linking smoking to lung cancer and other diseases.
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AFAIK the smoke is still a cause for cancer.
Why do you assume it was smoking? it implies even non smokers had similar risks.
Smoking is supposed to be a risk factor so who knows.
Indeed, it has something to do with cigarettes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498
Complications of smoking (addiction thereof) far outweigh the risks of COVID doesn't it.
I feel like you are omitting the fact that smoking causes cancer.
Smoking increases your risk of cancer from air pollution, so it's not so simple
Same reason a considerable percentage of smokers die of old age instead of heart attacks or cancers. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to start smoking.
Just like smoking cigarettes can have the positive side-effect of reducing your chance of catching covid!
This is interesting, but dangerous. Smokers make up 90% of lung cancer deaths [1]. At some point you have to acknowledge that smoking definitely does something to influence lung cancer.[1] http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/about-smoking/health-effect...