/sci/ - Science & Math

Hey /sci/,
I'm posting this thread because there's been a "smoking isn't bad for you the government is lying" meme going around on this board for some ridiculous reason.
Here are some peer reviewed articles for all you smoking "truthers" out there
Dangers of smoking
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/5/1175.full
" The magnitude of the excess lung-cancer risk among cigarette smokers is so great that the results can not be interpreted as arising from an indirect association of cigarette smoking with some other agent or characteristic, since this hypothetical agent would have to be at least as strongly associated with lung cancer as cigarette use; no such agent has been found or suggested."
Dangers of Second Hand Smoke
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44330/

If you disagree please post some articles/studies so that we can take the time to read them and tell you why they're right/wrong.
By the way I'm a smoker, I just refuse to have my head up my ass like some people here.

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http://pathol.med.stu.edu.cn/pathol/listEngContent2.aspx?ContentID=714