Brian

thanks as usual for coming up with meaningful and valid statistics. I just grabbed the first link I had in my files on smoking and cancer but I like yours better. I explored the whole page and found this study's results amazing:
[quote]The epidemiological analysis linked smoking to more than 70 percent of the cancer death burden among Massachusetts men in 2003. This percentage is much higher than the previous estimate of 34 percent in 2001.[/quote]
Somehow I felt at this point that these facts were such common knowledge that I am always amazed at the great job tobacco companies have done in generating doubt about the deadliness of their product but as you can see from this thread, it apparently works.