I hate to have to be the stick in the mud always reminding people this but alas, no one else is doing it so I must.

To date, there is not a single shred of evidence linking cigarette smoke to cancer. Not even one single valid link. None... zilch... nada. It just isn't true. Even the ALA (American Lung Association) admits that while their stance (i.e., what we are preaching to be truth) is that tobacco smoke causes cancer, there is still no scientific data indicating tobacco smoke causes any type of cancerous disease.

In fact, it's quite the contrary. The only evidence about lung cancer, and the ALA admits this as well... The same molecular form of lung cancer found in smoke tobacco users and attributed to development via second hand route in non-smokers in industrialized nations with tobacco users, is found in GREATER numbers in non-industrialized nations that actually have zero access to tobacco products at all. That's right. Scientific evidence proves there is a HIGHER rate of "tobacco" related cancer in countries where they IS NO TOBACCO USE! Hmm... I was going to say "how'd ya like them apples", I think much more fitting for this comment is... "Put that in your pipe and smoke it."

Disclaimer. There is evidence that tobacco use, the smoking kind, does lead to diseases such as COPD, HTN, CHF, MI, etc. I'm just arguing the cancer argument which is completely invalid and used as a scare tactic instead of just using the truth. Why do they use the cancer scare tactic? Easy. Cancer is hard to treat, takes along time to treat, is very painful to treat, etc. It's just plain scary. But the REAL thing caused by smoking tobacco are fairly easily treated with Rx and don't scare people as easily.

Beware: The truth is out there, and it's not what you're being told.

I bid you good day.

Matt, sweet brother, all I can say to you is...whatever.

And quit smoking!

Your sis