<prompt> TabaccoSmoking is considered as risk factor but not cause of cardiovascular disease because?No temporal associationLong latent periodMultifactorial causationLess sensitivity  <response>: Ans. is c i.e., Multifactorial causationMost non-communicable chronic disease e.g., cardiovascular diseases are the result of multiple causes and rarely there is a simple one-to-one cause-effect relationship.In the absence of a known agent i.e.- in multiple causes, the term risk factor s is used to describe ceain factors which are involved in causation of the disease 