rkzenrage

That is incorrect.
What confused me is, grammatically, that was odd for the rest of the article.
There has never been a study that shows a direct link between smoking and cancer. Both the American Lung and Cancer Associations have outright lied about that. Down to the lying photo of the "black lung" which is Black Lung, not the lung of a smoker, several coroners have stated, under oath. that without a microscope they cannot tell the difference between a smoker's lung and a non-smoker's lung. Even the EPA was brought before Congress and many lost their jobs and one was brought before charges for faking numbers to give OSHA fake number to make it ok to push through the Second Hand Smoke issue to force private property owners to alter how they use their own property, even though they were in compliance with OSHA and EPA standards for their associates and patrons.. smoking bans are unconstitutional, if you did not get that, BTW. Private property, as long as the air meets OSHA and EPA standards, which it does 99.999% of the time, what someone does on their own property is no one's business.
The AMA have never shown a link, no study by any school or private study have ever shown a cancer risk increase over 8% for smokers.
The rest is propaganda. "Common sense" = Superstition, show me the numbers.
This is, however, off topic for this thread.