Lighten Up on Lighting Up
Non-smoking has snob value, which leads to this tyranny. Richkids are sissies afraid of the Marlboro Man and all other masculine images. Their fathers make all our laws and buy the love of their brats with this "SMOKING CAUSES CANCER" hoax.
The victim's genes cause cancer; smoking only locates it. If a smoker has the cancer gene in his DNA and never smokes or quits smoking, he'll get some other kind of cancer anyway. The statistics indicate that possibility, too, but oncologists are under orders to come to whatever conclusion leads to totalitarian harassment of those not born-rich. Everybody knows that nowadays this is primarily a working-class habit.
Oncologists are educated eunuchs incapable of curing cancer. So why should we believe these abysmal failures know what causes cancer? The same incompetence applies to both curing and preventing cancer.