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The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: A., I am aware of this issue
(In detail, pp. 978-980).
- Grotto was asked about the effect of smoking on health and answered as follows:
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: What is the impact of smoking on public health?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: At the level of public health, smoking is harmful to public health.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: Harmful to public health?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Yes
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: If I smoke, I'm harming my health.
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: If you smoke you harm your own healthI mean...
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: Only my own, yes? of myself and also of those who have been exposed.
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Maybe also exposure, yes.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: Also to the exposure of those who were exposed to me, right?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: True.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: And this smoking the more I smoke the more I get hurt or does it not matter?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Look, it could be, I'll say it like this, I'll explain the matter, It is an event that has a statistical probability. I mean, if you smoke basically one cigarette can cause one harm, but of course if you smoke 100 cigarettes then it increases the chance of more of some riskSo there's a connection between the quantity and the effect, not that he, I'm again, it's ultimately a specific event that happened at one point and it's a matter of probability.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: Obviously, so the more cigarettes I smoke, the more cigarettes per day and the longer I have, the greater my health risk. Right?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Yes.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: And there's such a thing in medicine that they talk about the patient's years of smoking, a few boxes for a few years, right?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: That's right, PERSON YEARS The so-called
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: PERSON YEARS. My late father, who unfortunately died of lung cancer, had 75 years of smoking, which was 50 years and a box and a half a day. Do you know that?