Talk:Tobacco smoke
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Ridiculously ambiguous "safety" section
Under the heading "Safety", it states "Tobacco smoke, besides being an irritant, is alleged to cause lung cancer, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema, and other serious diseases in smokers (and, according to some, in non-smokers as well). The actual mechanisms by which smoking can cause so many diseases remain largely unknown." This is so incorrect as to be farcical. Tobacco smoke is not "alleged" to cause lung cancer, heart disease, etc., it has been well-documented in countless scientific studies to do just that, beginning in the 1930s at the Cancer Institute of ArgentinaThe Carcinogenic Effects of Tobacco. There's an exhaustive Wiki on the health effects of tobacco with no fewer than 225 sources cited. Even the tobacco industry's own scientists knew that it caused these diseases, as early as the 1950s (and suppressed this information for as long as possible), such as the 1953 RJ Reynolds memo that stated "Studies of clinical data tend to confirm the relationship between heavy and prolonged tobacco smoking and incidence of cancer of the lung." Nor is smoking merely "alleged" to cause serious diseases in non-smokers; again, there is a substantial body of scientific evidence that secondhand smoke causes the same diseases in "passive smokers", such as here http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/secondhandsmoke/fullreport.pdf and here http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol83/index.php. Furthermore, the mechanisms by which tobacco smoke causes these diseases is well-known; the "Mechanism" section of Health effects of tobacco goes into considerable detail as to precisely how tobacco smoke injures the body. In short: the "Safety" section of this article as it stands is so wildly divergent from reality, that I'm going to give it a serious pruning. If anyone wants to weigh-in first, they're welcome to. Bricology (talk) 08:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Nicotine hypothesis
Isn't this section borderline fringe, by putting too much emphasis (
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