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RE: RE: Re: Source of cancer data
Jerry,
I think the issue is correlation. If you look at sales tax, you do not know
who smoked, or how much (When I was young, my father had me go an pick up
cigarettes for him. I have never smoked.) If you take a medical history,
you know if the person smokes or not. If I develop lung cancer or heart
disease, it will not be from smoking.
One suggestion is to ask the CDC or other agencies how they determine the
smoking habits of the public.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Cohen [mailto:jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:31 AM
To: John Williams; Jack_Earley@RL.GOV; ruthweiner@AOL.COM;
hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: RE: Re: Source of cancer data
. . .
If per capita consumption of cigarettes (as indicated by tax revenues) is
not indicative of smoking frequency, then what is? What do people do with
all those cigarettes if not smoke them.
What ever happened to plausibility?
. . .
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