What context was that?
I quoted the entire statement.
Better go read it again.
And how exactly would that be clear? Were you also joking about miners dying from coal dust? How would one figure out where you are joking and where you are being serious? That is why forums have emoticons, because emotion is not easily conveyed via text.
Me thinks if you joking, you may want to consider using the technology correctly and not assuming people can read your mind. I don't know you from Adam. I have no idea what you consider a joke or what you are dead serious about. My apologies for not taking everything you say as a joke, unless you otherwise specify.
Also my apologies for giving a crap whether you get cancer or not and speaking up in the hopes you reconsidered your statement, of which I didn't know was a joke.