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And Russians also eat a lot of salty food.

Just to be clear: I'm not implying that smoking, drinking, or eating salty food was the cause of his stomach cancer, I'm just generalizing based on stereotypes that I know.

Smoking definitely is one of the causes (around 20% in the UK).

As is (sadly) eating smoked foods.

And of course, you know this because you're one of Ilya's doctors. And also because you have diagnostic skills that the world has never experienced before.

I don't think rorr was implying that smoking was the cause of Ilya's cancer, but rather is the cause of 20% of stomach cancer cases in the UK.

Read my comment and then his. He's implying causation. Not that it even matters to prove this point.

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