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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

We don't know for 100% what caused Mrs. Reeve's lung cancer, but second-hand is not bullcrap, it did kill my grand-aunt who was in a house full of smokers and never once fired one up herself. At least she lived to almost 90.


33 posted on 03/07/2006 10:55:14 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
but second-hand is not bullcrap

The heck it ain't. Even the WHO (no, not the rock band) debunked second-hand smoke years ago.

it did kill my grand-aunt who was in a house full of smokers and never once fired one up herself. At least she lived to almost 90

But she lived a relatively long life though, so that point is moot.

37 posted on 03/07/2006 11:02:22 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Spontaneous combustion occurs most often in Democrats)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

"it did kill my grand-aunt who was in a house full of smokers and never once fired one up herself. At least she lived to almost 90."

Isn't that a bit of a stretch?? I'd say your great-aunt died of old age natural causes.

I don't think anything 'killed' Dana. It was her time to go and she did!!



85 posted on 03/08/2006 6:13:06 AM PST by LADY J
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To: fieldmarshaldj
At least she lived to almost 90.

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.

104 posted on 03/08/2006 8:15:21 AM PST by nobdysfool (Faith in Christ is the evidence of God's choosing, not the cause of it.)
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