US Surgeon General lies by omission: Smoking one cigarette can kill you? Seriously?

In what can only be called a bizarre leap of pseudoscience, U.S. Surgeon General Dr Regina M. Benjamin recently announced that smoking one cigarette can kill you. In fact, she says, just breathing in the smoke from someone else's cigarette can kill you, she claims. It's all part of a just-released report entitled A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease
Lying by omission What's so wrong with this statement? While there's no question that smoking factory-made cigarettes is harmful to your health, this statement is being made by a US Surgeon General who utterly fails to offer similar warnings for all the other toxic products made by powerful corporations -- products that can kill you far more easily. For example, if smoking one cigarette can kill you, so can taking one pharmaceutical pill. Numerous pharmaceuticals cause DNA mutations , meaning that they, too, can "damage your DNA, which can lead to cancer," to use the Surgeon General's own words. At the same time, there are countless personal care products such as perfumes, shampoos, skin lotions, antibacterial soaps, sunscreens and cosmetics that are also loaded with DNA-mutating synthetic chemicals. The average perfume or cologne product contains over 20 carcinogenic chemicals, all of which contribute to an increased risk of cancer. So where is the Surgeon General's warning about the risk of death from using all these products? On these issues, the office of the Surgeon General is strangely silent. Perhaps that's because much of what the Surgeon General actually says is really just (tobacco) smoke and mirrors. Politically correct cancer warnings See, in the circle of conventional medicine (to which the Surgeon General belongs), there are some products that are considered politically correct to publicly bash -- such as cigarettes -- while there are other products which are collectively far more dangerous to public health (like chemotherapy) which are entirely off limits. You won't see the Surgeon General warning anyone that "just one chemotherapy treatment can cause cancer" even though it is scientifically true that chemotherapy subjects your body to far worse cancer-causing agents than the ones found in cigarette smoke! What's really fascinating in all this is that conventional doctors will bash cigarettes and explain that "smoking causes cancer," but when smokers show up at their clinics with cancer and want some treatment, those very same doctors will poison them with yet more cancer-causing chemicals in the form of chemotherapy! See, it's "fashionable" to attack cigarettes now. It's a safe target. No one gets fired from the government for saying that cigarettes are bad for you. But no one dares point out that chemotherapy is far more deadly than cigarette smoke because the cancer industry, unlike the tobacco industry, still holds influence in the medical industry. At one time, Big Tobacco dominated the health doctrine of conventional medicine.