Posted By TheNewsCommenter: From Nydailynews.com: “Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis”. Below is an excerpt from the article.

Years before conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his show Monday that he’d been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he downplayed the health risks of smoking on his show.

The 69-year-old firebrand said he is receiving treatment for the cancer but did not provide further details.

During a discussion with a caller to “The Rush Limbaugh Show” in April 2015, Limbaugh denied second-hand smoke was a danger and said it takes 50 years for smokers to catch cancer.

The caller to the program was questioning Limbaugh’s logic that society should be thankful for smokers because of the tax money generated from the sale of tobacco products.

“That is a myth. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed,” Limbaugh claimed. “There is no fatality whatsoever. There’s no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you.”

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