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Smoking causes Cancer. Then why do we all smoke?

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My grandma died of cancer when she was 50.
Her son, my dad, is now almost 70 and smokes a pack a day.
The stuff they put into diet coke to substitute for sugar "causes" as much cancer as smoking does.
So does drinking from plastic bottles, the wifi signals, and let's not forget about the constant radiation from the sun that should give us cancer.
If everything really was that bad for us we would all be dead with 40, but for some reason we have the longest average lifespan since the beginning of motherfucking time right now.
@SW-User I'm sure improved medicine has a lot to do with our life span being longer. "Other things are bad too" is a lame reason. Things like the sun can be hard to avoid. Smoking, not so much.
SW-User
@AcidBurn I'm not saying other things are bad too. Self proclaimed health gurus say these things are bad for us, but they're not. WiFi signals do not melt your brain, the sun the sugar substitutes do not give us cancer, the sun may radiate all the time, but that's why we have the fucking atmosphere.
My point about the lifespan was that even though we "compromise" our health with all the unhealthy shit like plastic bottles, smoking, etc. we still live longer than the chaps from a 100 years ago. Sure that's due the medical advancements but back then they didn't have WiFi but still died at the age of 20.
@SW-User Wi-Fi is reasonably new so its long term effects are still unknown. There have been studies that indicate Wi-Fi can be detrimental. It's simply too new to say for sure either way.
SW-User
@AcidBurn WiFi operates like any other frequency based media really.
The frequency and amplitude that is used in WiFi Access Points do about as much damage as a gust of wind.