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PDFMini-Symposium: Regulating smoking
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What's the point of tobacco control? Comment on Dan Halliday, ‘The ethics of a smoking licence’
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↵i Interestingly, the risks of smoking are commonly presented as relative risks—for example, lung cancer risk of a long-term smoker is 21 times that of a non-smoker3—even though absolute risks are likely to be far more relevant for an appropriate assessment of the risk by individuals.
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