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>>11150908
To extended it even further, tobacco smoke has anti-carcinogenic properties and protects against cancer.

http://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/1982/01000/Carcinogenic_Effects_of_Radon_Daughters,_Uranium.4.aspx

The light tobacco 'smoking' dogs in this study lived longer than control when exposed to radon.
37% of the control group (NO SMOKE) dogs developed cancer.
Only 5% of the smoking dogs developed cancer!

Do you want to go even further down the rabbit hole? Most smokers who go on to get cancer, only got cancer after stopping!

>Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?
http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(06)00780-8/fulltext

This shouldn't even come as a surprise to those with a background in medicine after seeing the radon dog study because this makes sense! Tobacco suppresses various cancer growth (eg: IGF-1) factors and the body will upregulate them in response! You can liken this to taking the best medicine for stopping cancer for years on end and you suddenly quit.


For the beginner, looking for arguments in layman's terms, look no further than Dr. Whitby's books. Yes it are older but to this day, anti-smoking science relies on the same, flawed non-randomized epidemiological studies and his valid criticisms of them still apply.


William Whitby, M.D. shows that anti-tobacco "science" isn't science at all!
>The Smoking Scare Debunked
http://wispofsmoke.net/PDFs/Whitby.pdf

>Smoking is Good For You
https://www.scribd.com/document/44685607/Smoking-is-Good-for-You-William-T-Whitby


Another fantastic resource:
Collection of studies showing the health benefits of smoking tobacco:
http://wispofsmoke.net/goodforyou.html