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To: trumandogz

Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!


3 posted on 10/17/2006 1:10:43 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

Because the risk of COPD is much higher than was previously believed. That's the news-part of this.


9 posted on 10/17/2006 1:13:37 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: wagglebee
Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!

The other 75% get heart disease, cancer, and bad breath.

15 posted on 10/17/2006 1:16:22 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: wagglebee
Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!

Sort of like playing Russian Roulette with 1 loaded and 3 empty chambers. (Once)

17 posted on 10/17/2006 1:16:56 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: wagglebee

Yes, but 25% will DIE. In 'meat & potato' terms....1 IN 4 WILL DIE THAT SMOKE.


51 posted on 10/17/2006 1:52:49 PM PDT by maineman
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To: wagglebee

You said: Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!
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I don't smoke, never have. I don't who else does, that's a personal choice. But a 25% chance of a pretty crummy disease might bother me if were considering smoking. Sure, 75% chance of no lung disease, but I'm not sure what other risks I would take at 25% chance. If 25% of those who crossed the street were killed by cars, would you cross? If 25% of those who ate peanut butter sandwiches choked to death, would you choose another kind of sandwich?

Those odds don't sound too good when you are talking about a risk to your life. Then again, each of us gets to choose.


58 posted on 10/17/2006 1:58:57 PM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: wagglebee
"Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!"

Because the 75% have heart attacks first

73 posted on 10/17/2006 2:13:42 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: wagglebee

I just examined a smoker's lung in Anatomy this week. Very yucky, full of dark plaques, very hard to the touch compared to a healthy lung. Smoking is not good for anyone.


87 posted on 10/17/2006 2:32:21 PM PDT by brwnsuga
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To: wagglebee; SheLion

"Which means that 75% NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM, so why not report it that way?!"




Good for you. Your interpretation (and mine) will never see the light of day,

The public brainwashing by the anti-smokers continues.


137 posted on 10/17/2006 5:40:39 PM PDT by Mears
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