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Use this tag for questions about the science of medicine and its practices. Use [medications] for questions about the actual cures that people take, and use [alternative-medicine] for claims about cures and practices which are claimed to be alternative to official medical science

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Does smoking cigarettes cause lung cancer?

People generally use the term "cause" as being similar to being "risk factor" and even I fall into that same people category so in that sense smoking causes cancer and I would agree with OP. However i …
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