Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a lot of ways to get lung cancer too, but that doesn't stop smoking from being a powerful predictor. Prediction isn't assigning. And nobody in this comment chain said anything about banning. In fact the OP specifically said "I don't see a solution to that any time soon."
I introduced morality to demonstrate, with argument left to the reader, how the question you are trying to compel is misguided. Adjacent threads provide context for doing so.
And all you managed to demonstrate being misguided was yourself.