Very different. The evidence was much stronger there. The correlations were so high as to be impossible to ignore. (It also helped that smoking was so prevalent across race/class/age etc that it practically controlled for all the other variables inherently, which is true of drinking water exposure to PFAs too.)
There were conditions like emphysema that were basically unheard of in non-smokers (or people who worked in certain occupations that involved a lot of combustion byproducts) and common in smokers.
The correlations here (at the levels most of us are exposed to) are incredibly weak. Don’t take my word for them, look them up.
This is more like the link between aspartame and cancer. There’s no smoking gun, no high correlations. If you look up the symptoms “linked” to it, there are hundreds at least.
Not all correlations are equal.
But, I install R/O filters in my house because I am not certain it is not harmful and why take the chance? I’m just not certain it is harmful and I would need to be to support jailing people or banning the chemicals immediately and entirely.