17 Quotes by Michael Thun

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    It really comes down to whether a study is representative or valid, ... You can't get a valid answer from smokers or sick people because anyone who's ever practiced medicine knows that being sick affects weight. We want to know about weight before, not after, people get sick.

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    It's still a very good idea to eat a diet that's high in fresh fruits and vegetables, both for its direct benefit on heart disease and reducing adult-onset diabetes.

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    The benefits of short-term nicotine replacement therapy in helping smokers quit smoking far exceed any risks from nicotine replacement therapy.

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    The CDC seriously underestimated the risk of dying in the overweight by not adequately dealing with the bias due to smoking and disease,

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    If there's blame to go around, most of the blame falls on the tobacco companies,

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    If you have a short follow-up, you still have a problem with people who don't know they're sick, ... As the follow-up lengthens, that's less of a problem because the people who don't know that they're sick die.

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    Cigarette consumption is down where it was at the start of World War II. About 1 in 5 people are current smokers,

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    Colon cancer screening is probably one of the most underused ways to save one's life from cancer that exists.

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