I'm reformed, too, but if smoking tobacco suddenly proved not to cause health problems I would instantly go back to my all-time fave, a long lean mean machine.
It adds a risk factor, but it no more causes them than the hundreds of other singular risk factors. No one's ever fallen over dead because they smoked a cigarette. And many that smoked all their lives died from other things.
It is a MAJOR RISK FACTOR, asshole!!!! Smoking has been proven to be one of the WORST things you can do to yourself. There is a correlative, and many times true causation, between smoking and heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
Congratulations, Delta, you are doing a bang up job of proving yourself to be the world's BIGGEST DUMBASS!
Is this a ******* joke or what?!? Surely this guy cannot be for real.
No it isn't. The only major risk factor is lots of little risk factors added together. Do you have any idea how many carcinogens are in every day products? Because of that it's impossible to determine which ultimately causes cancer. Coulda been the flame retardant furniture, clothes, or aresols in every home and not the tobacco. It's impossible to determine but smoking's the obvious one not pleasant to be around if not smoking yourself so the one who gets an unfair amount of the blame.
If smoking really caused all the problems that get blamed on it, every smoker should be getting those problems. Yet according to the CDC itself, only about 40% of smokers develop lung cancer. Yet we always hear "smoking causes lung cancer" well if that's true why do less than half of smokers get lung cancer? For something to be described as causing something else, at the very least a majority should develop it.
You're listening to the result of lobbyists and people who wanna control every little facet of your life. Whether you develop a cancer, heart disease, emphasema, or whatever else is the result of your genes much more so than lifestyle factors like smoking.