> Surrealists, dadaists and fans of retrocausality tried in vain to warn us that smoking caused cigarettes

At risk of taking this typo-launched tangent far too seriously, smoking absolutely caused cigarettes, and without retrocausality; cigarettes weren't the first vehicle for smoking, and were developed as a result of the popularity of the practice.

You might be interested to learn that one of the fathers of modern statistics believed this too

https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...

lol, wow, I have a slight issue with transposing information... it caught me this time. Watch out you may catch lung cigarettes...