Posted on 03/07/2006 10:12:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I thought Kerry healed the sick?
Scan and post the death certificate stating cause of death as SHS.
So it couldn't have been old age, then, could it? Got to find some way to blame the smoke.
If she lived to almost 90, then I doubt it was so-called secondhand smoke that did her in. Can you prove she would have lived longer if she had never been exposed to it? That would be the only way you could prove an absolute link between the two.
The lack of clear logic on this subject is astounding. The technical term is "post hoc ergo propter hoc", meaning "after this therefore because of this". Assuming that the first event is directly causal of the second event, based on sequence.
You're so full of chit your shoes must squeek when you walk.
None of them believe the SHS bs.
that's an amazing graph
you certainly don't need a doctorate in medicine to see the correlation, which does not equal causality.
Please link me to where I said that forum participants were saying that smoking was good for you. If I said that, it was incorrect. What is accurate is that people say it's not really all that bad for you. The denial this forum regarding smoking is amazing.
Amen to that! Why must the media look for someone to blame? Oh, I forgot, they don't believe in God, so some person must be punished. Wait, it's Bush's fault!
Many many clinical nutritionist say when a vegetarian comes in to go through a detox program; they say it is next to impossible to detox them. If not impossible. That should tell vegetarians, this is NOT a healthy lifestyle.
This whole thread, with all the faux posturing about the death of someone none of us knew (and I, for one, couldn't care less about)is, IMO, in extremely bad taste, loaded with basic logical fallicies (post hoc, ergo propter hoc) and dividing us on a petty issue which is just how politicians like it.
Life's a crapshoot. Some of us make the long run and some of us run the 220.
Lung cancer is so deadly because it is so hard to cure or keep in remission; over time, most lung cancer patients die from complications, hypoxia and edema are two.
Massive metastasies invade nearby organs as well.
Yes I agree it COULD WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY be also be due to global warming, nuclear fallout, flouride in the water, or contaminated moonshine from prohibition days, or some other phenomenon that initiated during this time period.
a hundred years ago ? Nice Try.
the average life span of males born in 1850 was 38 years
the average life span of males born in 1900 was 47 years.
Lung cancer is an old peoples cancer.
Fewer than 3% of all lung cancer cases are found in people under 45 years old.
Leaving this realm of anguish and pain may be a blessing in disguise. The one that will suffer is her young son.
You had a doctor tell you that with a straight face?
Call the funeral home and get them to make a copy of the death certificate and post it here; you'll make headlines.
force feed them White Castles, LOL
From a Google:
"Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue (invasion) or by migration of cells to distant sites (metastasis). This unregulated growth is caused by a series of acquired or inherited mutations to DNA within cells, damaging genetic information that define the cell functions and removing normal control of cell division. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer
Don't know much about epidemiology, eh?
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