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"but the health effects are smoking are well documented and significantly worse than eating candy bars, or even most other poor diet habits that people have"

Heart disease is a bigger killer than cancer in many countries.



Smoking causes heart disease.


Plenty of non smokers get heart disease as well.

Plenty of non smokers also get cancer.


You linked heart disease to candy bars. That link is weaker than the link between smoking and heart disease.


My quote included most poor dietary habits as well. There is plenty of evidence that poor diet is linked to heart disease.




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