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The least alcoholic province in Spain has more bars per capita than America's drunkest state, so if you want to roll the dice on fun ways to get cancer or an STD next weekend, there you go.

Lung cancer now is not as high as during the apex of ci******es but lawyers tried to claim it was small micron particulate matter (PM2.5), second- and even third-hand "smoke" - except they couldn't torture epidemiology enough to link them.

The confounder to all lawyer-driven lawsuit claims is that women account for two-thirds of never-smokers with the disease.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01457-0?utm_source=science20.com

Lung cancer in women emerges as a distinct disease A malignancy that once mainly affected men has broadened its reach. But marked disparities in research, detection and treatment remain.