I understand your passion and agree that smoking is bad for people. What I don't agree with and you don't address is the continued practice of the CDC to promote its social and political agendas through artificially skewed statistics. One personal example - a friend who worked in the asbestos industry for 30 years was diagnosed at age 70 with lung cancer. He had smoked for about ten months while he was in combat in Vietnam (where he was repeatedly showered with Agent Orange. His cause of death was listed as lung cancer brought on by tobacco use. Do you think that's good science or good statistical practice? I do not. CDC has employed similar tactics in its fight against guns. Since we, as tax payers are getting the bill for all this supposed "research" I believe that the research should be objective, repeatable and peer reviewed. Just sayin