Posted on 03/07/2006 10:12:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
When your time's up, it's up, IMO....
More second-hand smoke BS...
Second hand smoke is the devil!!!!
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Didn't they live in Los Angeles for a time? The air there *has* to be significantly carcinogenic....
Hey, now. L.A. is the shiny beacon of liberalism on the hill. That's blasphemy, Spktyr. Blasphemy I say.
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Some folks can't wait to climb on a corpse, can they? How about all the entertainers from years gone by, who really did spend years in truly smoke filled night clubs, and yet did not die at 44 from lung cancer?
This is truly a tragedy, but I doubt it has much scientific value re: second hand smoke or even first hand smoke.
I think STRESS might be a factor though.
That's it, ET. Embryonic stem cells could've saved the day, if only Bush wasn't so close minded.
Good point!
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I could have sworn I heard someone on TV say today that her mother died recently of cancer, I thought lung cancer. Did I hear wrong? Could it just be heredity?
Sorta didn't matter where they lived. Lung cancer is the greatest cancer killer worldwide.
Yep, people like Keith Richards of Rolling Stones abuses drugs and is still kicking into their 60s. Genetics and pure luck, I say.
Heredity is more of a factor than anthing else when it comes to these diseases like cancer, diabetes, etc...
But we all know that second hand smoke is the culprit. It must be villified and we must protect you from your own self, flaglady. You're incapable of doing it.
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If she grew up in LA in the 60s 70s she was definitely at risk.
I remember the air would burn our lungs as kids playing in the pool and yard in the summer. Everyone I knew reported the same thing.
The air is much better there now; one of the few environmental efforts that really made a difference.
And it's the most excruciating, painful way to go too.
I just wanna die like Homer Simpson says in an episode, where a bunch of beavers are eating him up - "But I wanna die choking on food!"
John Kerry is such a stooge! :D
I am a non-smoker and do not frequent establishments where there is smoking, but it was ten years between the time she gave up her career and contracting lung cancer. Lungs can heal themselves after a period of time if one stops smoking before it is too late. Second hand smoke did not cause her cancer.
That was from third hand smoke - Somebody told her that somebody in the nightclub where her daughter worked twenty years ago smoked and that gave her cancer.
But don't worry, they'll figure out how a tax increase on something will prevent future such deaths.
And people who don't drink get cirrhosis of the liver...
I doubt that lung cancer suddenly appeared among humans when tobacco-smoking became popular a few centuries ago.
(And who introduced the world to nicotine addiction and tobacco smoke? The indigenous peoples of eastern North America!)
My only question is "why did Halliburton want her dead?"
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