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Re:When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018) by jack1243star on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:47PM (#30004310)
And yet the Japanese have high life expectancy?
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Re:When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018) by DoreenMichele on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:00PM (#30004406)
Not necessarily evidence that it isn't problematic for other people. The Japanese seem to be different in ways we are still trying to sort out.

The prevalence of cigarette smoking among Japanese men has been consistently high compared with Western males over the past 30 years. However, during the same period, the incidence of and mortality rates for lung cancer have consistently been lower in Japan than in Western countries ('Japanese smoking paradox').

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12889681/

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Re:When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018) by 30002926 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:25PM (#30004615)
How do you know this?
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Re:When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018) by champagnois on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:36AM (#30005127)
Chinese family. Have lived there and among chinese elite for most of my life.
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Re:When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018) by fomine3 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:51AM (#30005251)
Not true in Japan. Everyone eat soy based foods like tofu without worrying.
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