If smoking doesn't kill, Mike Pence, neither does the plague
- Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
US Vice President elect Mike Pence (who has been the recipient of funding from Big Tobacco) once famously wrote:
Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill. In fact two out of every three smokers does [sic] not die from smoking-related illness and nine out of ten smokers...