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Who said it was the result of smoking? Yes, he smokes, but that does not mean his cancer is necessarily a result of smoking.
He also sings A LOT, so that might have just as much to do with it as the smoking.
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I'm not saying that smoking did or did not cause his cancer because I'm no doctor.</blockquote>
You probably should've stopped right there.</blockquote>
By the same token, there is no proof from your medical background as a doctor anywhere in this thread saying singing causes cancer, unless you failed to post your credentials with your opinion.
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Which was kinda my point. None of us know enough about Tsunku's case to be making determinations as to what caused his cancer.
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If that was your point you failed to make it. If you only wanted to say that we don't know enough to know for sure that it was caused by smoking then you should've stopped after your second sentence. Instead you went further by asserting that singing has an equal chance of having caused his cancer as smoking does. I'm quite sure that if you've taken any health class or done any reading online you'd know that smoking carries a very high risk of causing cancer. Nobody is claiming that his cancer was 100% caused by smoking and nothing else, however, it is impossible to deny that smoking played a big part in his developing cancer.
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You do know that I was responding to this, right?:
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showraniy, on 10 Mar 2014 - 1:22 PM</div>
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"I'm sad this sounds like the result of smoking. I've never seen him smoke, but if that's what caused this, that is just entirely too preventable and sad."</div>
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<div>Nobody knows enough about this to make that presumption, which was my point.</div>
(OT: Why can't I use "quote" tags here without my comments after the closed quote tag ending up within the quoted text area? Neither can I copy & paste from another reply window.)
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Furthermore, you saying that "it is impossible to deny that smoking played a big part in his developing cancer" only serves to validate my point.
You don't know that. Period. Full stop. Not all smokers develop cancer, and along with that, not all smokers who do develop cancer do so as a result of smoking. You simply don't know. If you were to say, "Damn, it's probably the smokes" that would be one thing, but you are essentially saying that it is 100% for sure the smoking "played a big part" in it. So how big a part of it does it need to be before I can say that you are completely contradicting the sentence previous to your claim that?
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