User talk:Jmacattack87

Your edit on Philip Morris USA

Just to explain my revert of your edit here. You use 2 sourced statements concerning smoking: That an estimate of 1 person per each 1 million cigarettes produced dies, and that Philip Morris Richmond produces about 146 billion cigarettes annually. You combine these to reach the conclusion that therefore, the Richmond factory kills 146,000 people per year. This is clearly synthesis and not allowed on Wikipedia. In you second attempt, you change it into a direct claim by doctor Proctor, which is not what he stated and clearly false. Editing Wikipedia so it provides information about the detrimental effects of smoking is a good thing, but please stick to the facts.--Atlan (talk) 16:54, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Altan, I wish you had looked at the sources. If you had, you would not only have see that the two citations were both from the same source, but you would have also seen the table in which Dr. Proctor explicitly shows the name of factories, their number of cigarettes produced, and their number of deaths caused annually. They are all his calculations in a respected, accepted published article. I came to no synthesis or conclusions myself, but was simply citing the existing, verified information. I included the fact about 1 million cigarettes because it would give the reader further background on the factual basis of the source's information. In case you are curious, you may find the source here: https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/87

I do wonder, are you employed by the cigarette industry? Jmacattack87 (talk) 21:45, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I didn't see this message sooner. I replied on my talk page, here.--Atlan (talk) 09:42, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]