>>1467560>pretend that being outside is more dangerous than using any form of tobacco,You are either illiterate or intentionally obtuse. The purpose of the comparison is not to rank the relative levels of cancer risk (even though they are comparable in the case of casual pipe use), but to illustrate that we accept risk all the time without a second thought when we do other activities that increase the chances of cancer. What matters is absolute risk, not percentage of increase. Smoking a pipe infrequently causes a (barely) demonstrable increase in the risk of certain cancers. But the absolute risk is still extremely low.
Crossing the street likely increases the chances of getting run over by a very high percentage, but the chance of you getting run over if you look both ways is very very slim.
