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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 January 2021 and 21 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Hanafarooqui312.

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Recent rollback?

Ping User:Sennecaster; User:Sandstein. I do not understand the rationale for the rollback here. The edits rolled back were *not* pov-driven, and were basically intended to implement the Merge decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smoker's paradox. For example, the edits implemented the decision to restrict usage of the term smoker's paradox to cardiovascular disease and COVID-19. (Of note, while I personally found that questionable in the context of the pre-existing page specifically named 'Smoker's paradox', I do not perceive it to be an issue here). Other rolled-back edits were explained in the edit summaries. Fwiw, I believe that some more of the content/sourcing could possibly be trimmed (per WP:WEIGHT?). 86.186.120.156 (talk) 10:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm a PCR that happened to see the edit. I thought some of the wording was a bit non-NPOVish and I don't usually check the talk page unless it's linked in the summary, so it looked suspicious. Thanks for explaining,I've accepted your most recent revision :) Sennecaster (What now?) 10:47, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you User:Sennecaster. 86.186.120.156 (talk) 10:49, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

L.O

Recommend two possible programmes or campaigns that you think could be developed and implemented in south Africa to decrease the number of teenage pregnancies in order for teenage girl to complete there education Sitsili (talk) 17:42, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Be self.

People should start loving themselves, how comes people want to clean outer self, yet inner self is dying slowly slowly... Maryneema (talk) 20:56, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Misleading comparison of radiation dose

Smoking an average of 1.5 packs per day gives a radiation dose of 60-160 mSv/year, compared with living near a nuclear power station (0.0001 mSv/year) or the 3.0 mSv/year average dose for Americans.

The comparison is heavily misleading, because a very localized dose is compared to a whole body dose. The radiation dose due to smoking is the Bronchial Epithelial Dose, as mentioned in the cited source. This whole body dose due to smoking is much lower. This should be clarified. 93.218.4.43 (talk) 19:37, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]