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I don't want to continue this since it's a reading forum but it was nice to see you move from "causes" to "increases your chances". It's interesting that a smoking-related death is the death of anyone who has smoked from certain illnesses. If you die at the age of 83 from congestive heart failure and you smoked, it's a smoking related death. If you never smoked, well, I suppose it can be a second-hand smoke-related death if you ever were exposed to anyone smoking. So, for certain diseases, if you smoke or have smoked or were around smoke, that was the causative factor. Seems pretty sloppy, albeit popular, research.
I certainly don't think smoking is good for people. I also don't think hysteria, hatred, and bad science is good for people either. When I was quite young, I realized that "scientists" who were being paid to say smoking was good for you were silly. Even I knew, as a child, it wasn't good for you. It's amazing how "research" shifts by what they get paid to find.
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