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by gruez 1055 days ago
Your quote missed a few crucial words. The claim was that "every person exposed to it over the course of a full lifetime would be expected to get cancer".

Suppose you get a bunch of people to flip 3 coins. You'd expect the average person to get 1.5 heads, but it would be inaccurate to say "every person would be expected to get heads".

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Every person can mean considering each individually. The bigger problem is screening every person for a cancer their doctor should expect.