FATS LIMBAUGH IS WRONG AGAIN...

Today Limbaugh claimed that the reduction in smoking has not led to a improvement in health. His larger point seemed to be that we can't trust the experts about our health. Of course, he's wrong about smoking, as this article describes.

Epidemiology of Lung Cancer
Anthony J. Alberg, PhD, MPH and Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS
CHEST January 2003 vol. 123 no. 1 suppl 21S-49S

Far and away the most important cause of lung cancer is exposure to tobacco smoke through active or passive smoking. The reductions in smoking prevalence in men that occurred in the late 1960s through the 1980s will continue to drive the lung cancer mortality rates downward in men during the first portion of this century. This favorable trend will not persist unless further reductions in smoking prevalence are achieved.