<story><title>Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37849000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthcolumn</author><text>Hitting yourself repeatedly over the head with a hammer can give you a headache. Not sure DeWalt are worried from a litigious point of view. I doubt there is a smoker alive today who can reasonably claim to have been unaware of the risks when they started.&lt;p&gt;Anal point - why the apostrophe? Should it be &amp;quot;Smoking becauses hundreds...&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This has some legal implications. You can now prove fairly conclusively that your lung cancer came from smoking. I wonder if it will lead to a new wave of tobacco litigation.&lt;p&gt;I think even Fisher would be convinced [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;priceonomics.com&amp;#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;priceonomics.com&amp;#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CoryG89</author><text>There is literally a 69 year old woman in the article who claims just that:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Had I known as a teenager that smoking caused mutations which would stay with me for life then I would never had started&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It agree with you that it&amp;#x27;s a little silly, especially for young people, but it wasn&amp;#x27;t that long ago they started forcing cancer warnings on tobacco.</text></comment>
<story><title>Smoking “causes hundreds of DNA changes”</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37849000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthcolumn</author><text>Hitting yourself repeatedly over the head with a hammer can give you a headache. Not sure DeWalt are worried from a litigious point of view. I doubt there is a smoker alive today who can reasonably claim to have been unaware of the risks when they started.&lt;p&gt;Anal point - why the apostrophe? Should it be &amp;quot;Smoking becauses hundreds...&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This has some legal implications. You can now prove fairly conclusively that your lung cancer came from smoking. I wonder if it will lead to a new wave of tobacco litigation.&lt;p&gt;I think even Fisher would be convinced [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;priceonomics.com&amp;#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;priceonomics.com&amp;#x2F;why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>There are plenty of people alive today who were unaware of the risks because until about the mid-80s the cigarette companies could actively deny them. You can only argue ignorance from when the mandatory product warnings were introduced.</text></comment>