Sure there are statistics associating lung cancer and cigarettes. Sure you can manipulate statistics to say pretty much whatever you want.
No less an American author than Mark Twain said this years ago. These “scientists” think they’re smarter than Mark Twain. Well, we have more humility than that. And they use the metric system, too.
It’s real simple. All we ask is this: Does the action reduce freedom, or increase it?
And in this case, it’s an easy one.
The New York Times hates freedom and that’s why we’re dropping it too.