Vejam o relato do Dr. Samuel Epstein em "Curing the Cancer Outbreak" - disponível no excelente documentário The Corporation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71XP7Qpg_ik

Segue uma entrevista com ele, na qual ele afirma que a lógica da política do câncer é culpar a vítima (por seus hábitos):
Cancer: It’s a Growth Industry

[...]DR: What are the policies of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society on the causes and prevention of cancer?

Dr. Samuel Epstein: First of all, they try to explain away cancer by what’s called, “blame the victim.” If you get cancer, it’s your own fault. You smoke too much. They’re absolutely right that smoking is an important cause of cancer, but it doesn’t explain the massive, current epidemic. So, it’s not smoking. Apart from smoking, they say, “Well, it’s a fatty diet.” I’ve already indicated that fat, itself is not a risk factor for cancer. Or they claim it’s because people are spending too much time in the sun. There’s no question at all that malignant melanoma and skin cancer will result from spending too much time in the sun, but that has nothing to do with any of the other major cancers that I mentioned—brain cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, breast, testicular and childhood cancers. They parallel this emphasis on “blame the victim” by ignoring, to all intents and purposes, a vast body of scientific information on avoidable causes or risk factors of cancer. …