Once someone has a diagnosis of cancer (which no matter what stage you have, has the potential to kill you), it does them little good to hear from their doctors that a lifestyle choice that they made likely brought them to the disease. They are already scared, their lives are in turmoil, they have new financial issues, and the hell of cancer treatment yet to go through. Adding to the psychic load with yet another negative yields nothing. A person that comes to cancer through the choice to use tobacco is probably already beating themselves up for this lifestyle choice without the doctor

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.