It would be idiotic to suggest that we endorse smoking until you cross a certain threshold . Well , this now becomes the germane question . There is no ambiguity that A ob is causally related to atherosclerosis .
By the way , I think the data are very , very relieved to hear . So , but , but I'm going someplace very important here because if there's one topic that doesn't get enough attention in medicine , it's causality and uh causality is an obsession of mine . Like most of the day , on some level , I sit around thinking about causality .
That is a , that is a logical equivalency . There can be no debate about that . What if I said to you , Andrew , this is going to be our new philosophy around smoking cessation .
Would you agree that smoking is causally related to lung cancer ? Yes . So just to be clear , Andrew , you do not think that it's just an association that smokers get more lung cancer .
We're saying , I'm , I'm coming at this in a long way . But your question is so important that I want to answer it this way . We're answering your question today as follows .
