This chief medical officer has got his head up his arse..come on this guy is a fricking joke

so I must assume that any other factors of lung cancer causes have been eliminated, asbestos, fuels, auto emmisions, ect ect..

Lung cancer could be virtually wiped out in Scotland as a result of the smoking ban in public places, according to the chief medical officer.

Dr Harry Burns said lung cancer rates would be reduced to just a few hundred cases a year in the future.

In 2005, there were 4,000 recorded deaths from lung cancer in Scotland.

His annual report also said there were other signs of improving health, including increased life expectancy, breast feeding and immunisation rates.

Dr Burns said: "Imagining Scotland with no lung cancer is not trivial speculation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6120540.stm

He sounds like some of the people around here.... however, they are starting to throw rocks at fast food lately, so I guess when lung cancer doesn't drop to zero here (our city council just banned smoking), then they'll have another target to go after.
I am actually still waiting to have someone walk within 30 feet of me while I'm smoking a cigarette and then they should have a heart attack.

These hysterical ramblings make it seem like somebody's been smoking something, and it's no cigarette.

Banning smoking = wiping out all lung cancer?

Hey Joe, pass the crack-pipe, will ya? I got another page to do before this study is finished!

Dr Burns: "In the 1960's one in 100 men died of lung cancer. Today, rates are falling all the time and thanks to the smoking ban, I expect the reduction in deaths to accelerate until dying from the disease becomes a rare occurence."

I don't know about you guys, but isn't 1 in 100 pretty rare? Let's assume that 40 years ago, half of Scottish men smoked, or 50 out of 100. If 1 out of even as few as 50 smokers died from lung cancer, that still leaves 49, or 98%, that DIDN'T.................And that's assuming they weren't exposed to asbestos, car exhaust, other toxins, or simply inherited a predisposition to cancer........

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Originally posted by Jemeyes:
Lung cancer could be virtually wiped out in Scotland as a result of the smoking ban in public places, according to

If the pattern follows what happened in USA, the lung cancers should increase as smoking rates drop. As shown at the link given, CDC had to switch to some funny counting (their so called "age-adjusted rates" decreased while the actual LC rates increased) to obscure this increase. The increase of actual LC rates in USA agrees with other previously known facts e.g. significantly lower LC rates among smoke inhalers than among non-inhalers, as well as explicitly in animal experiments (the smoking mice gets fewer lung cancers from radiation than nonsmoking mice).