Ol' Smokey

They are not confused TS, they are presenting statistics. My remark was directed at you, not them.

Snail, I didn't say you were confused, you know that.

Snail, I said you were confusing correlation with causation, not that you were confused. There is a difference.

OK, now I AM confused. What have I said that makes you think I'm confusing correlation with causation? As I said, I just passed on the links.

It should also have been read in conjuction with the other half of the sentence

You mean the bit where you said "please note I have never claimed that smoking is safe."? You've certainly expressed considerable scepticism on the evidence that it is -

Pardon my pedantry, but there is no evidence whatsoever that lung cancer is caused by smoking, merely that you stand a greater chance of dying from it if you smoke.
There is no argument - no-one has ever produced actual evidence of passive smoking being fatal.

I have, at least at some point, answered all your comments except the one about being wrong about my overwhelming conviction that I am in the right

Yeah, I was getting a bit lazy there. I'd really covered it in the first two points about denial and self-justification which you don't seem to be contesting.