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A reaction gif of a twenty-year-old semi-literate screed on tobacco legislation could just as well support the conclusion that politicians, not Republicans, are unscientific. The clumsy choice of wording (in a paragraph that conflicted with itself) cited statistics that were reasonably accurate at the time. Pence maintained that a third of smokers died of smoking-related illnesses, a figure that appeared to come from a 1987 study. Data demonstrating the percentage of smokers who contract lung cancer were mixed, but some indicated the number was roughly ten to 15 percent.