Page 32 - Push Back

Despite the fact that cigarette smoking is the cause of lung cancer, emphysema, high blood
pressure, and a host of other maladies, this did not prevent doctors with a personal interest from
advocating the “benefits” and “healthiness” of cigarette smoking. Offer a man who loves money
a substantial financial reward, and he will betray the Hippocratic oath to “do no harm.” Millions
of people worldwide have died horrendous deaths, gasping for breath, experiencing a sense of
suffocating, being in terror of dying, because doctors told them for decades that cigarette
smoking was healthy.

There was no science behind the claims that cigarette smoking is harmless, even as there is no
science to support the contention that homosexual behavior is normal and harmless. People need
to discern that adding the title “Doctor” to a person’s name is no guarantee that the individual’s
advice will be either accurate, helpful, or harmless. No man’s opinion should be beyond scrutiny.
Those who fail to exercise due diligence in testing what they are being told by “professionals”
and “experts” will suffer the consequences of their gullibility.