Here you go.
Here you go. A thoughtfully worded statement from the WHO IARC (their cancer group). The link to it is below, along with a link to an informative but obviously from a certain perspective on it article from The Atlantic. Since the media are supposed to be professionals, I do not place blame for this nonsense on WHO. Anyone who has expertise in covering medicine and research would have been able to parse that and explain it to the public as interesting but merely confirming decades old recommendations. Instead, the USS Maine has once again exploded, because CANCER, and Pulitzer and Hearst are lying contentedly in their graves. 1) It does not mention cigarettes. (Some media does because of WHO classification scheme. See the Atlantic article link for an explanation.) 2) Sounds like they did a meta-analysis of the literature. (Not a new study.) 3) They specifically use the word "association", i.e., not causal links. 4) Choice quotes include (italics were theirs): "... classif...