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I guess it depends on what you're using the problem for; the Smoking Lesion seems valuable for training, by relying on the fact that people will be tempted to assume the answer based on their emotions, instead of the [hypothetical] evidence.
Yeah, but that skill is adequately trained via hypothetical syllogisms (e.g. "if some animals are mammals and some mammals are primates, does it logically follow that some animals are primates?"), and that's not a good trick to mix in with decision theory problems which already confuse beginners.