frumnotyeshivish -“Health – to clarify further – I don’t think the methodology of the studies are flawed. What bothers me is after the raw numbers come back, there’s someone sitting there thinking, how can I portray these true numbers in the way that most demonizes smoking? The reason the CDC (center for disease control or the gov.) does this is because “smoking is the #1 preventable cause of death in society” so they are on a mission to demonize it.”
They are on a mission to demonize it because that’s what their statistics told them.
“I don’t like being manipulated by anyone, especially a power figure who thinks they’re acting in my benefit. I’ll decide for myself, thank you. Don’t give me averages over medians, because they are lower. Don’t do tricky things like saying – smoking increases the risk of lung cancer by 2000%. Lung Cancer is one of the deadliest and most common cancers. Every year x amount of people die from cancer.”
Do you even know how rare it is for a Non-smoker to come down with lung cancer? But keep saying that they are making up the statistics!
“Or saying something like – Every year x amount of people die from smoking-related diseases, when the large majority of people who die from heart attack and stroke are not smokers. When calculating how many years a smoker loses on average, don’t use the life expectancy numbers unless you also include all smokers who surpassed that number. Little tricky things, and they drive me crazy.”
Those little trickly things are based on their statistics. Again don’t tell me that their statistics aren’t flawed, but the way they portray them are. They are saying what their statistics have told them to say. There is no hidden agenda. If you don’t like their statistics -do your own. Or just be like every other smoker -“I don’t care if it’s a good possibility that I’ll die young or come down with a deadly disease -I’m going to smoke anyway -no matter what”!