Posted on 08/28/2018 8:04:16 AM PDT by kathsua
- Yul Bryner
It’s not like drinking arsenic. It’s more like getting an X-ray every week. X-rays cause cancer, we know that. Some people are just lucky, or made of the right stuff, and they survive the exposure.
Smoke cigarettes and you’re playing roulette with your life. The black lungs of dead smokers convinced me that smoking is a health risk.
“Liberals are so hypocritical on this issue.”
On ANY issue! They want what they want, and they don’t want you to have what they don’t want. They claim we must be tolerant of every demented behavior they can pull out of their demented little....minds, but their tolerance is a one way street.
I was a pack and half a day smoker for 50+ years. I used to get 1 cold and 1 flu over the course of a winter season (Nov.- Feb).
I quit over two years ago and now I have been getting “something” almost every month. Sometimes it knocks me on my butt and sometimes, like right now, I'm functional but contagious. I've been scoped and examined 6 different ways from Sunday - they found lots of stuff, but nothing related to these “flus & colds”
I’ve been around too many relatives dying of cancer to dismiss the premise of this article.
No, not everyone is going to get cancer.
But then again, my R8 M&P revolver has eight chambers. Only one of them will kill me.
Shall we put in a round, spin the wheel and see what happens when we pull the trigger?
That is the logic you are proposing.
Spot on.
Spot-on. Ridiculous premise masquerading as something resembling “scientific”...
I remember when William Talman, Jr, (Hamilton Burger) of PERRY MASON fame, was diagnosed with lung cancer. He spent the last few months of his life on public service announcements warning people not to smoke.
A co-worker of mine, ten years younger than me, smoked like a chimney for years. Barely forty, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died leaving a wife and two kids.
Anti-smokers treat smoking as just a “nasty”
I don’t have a problem with those e-cigs.
Regular tobacco cig smoke, even a small ammount, causes me to gag.
And i am an ex-smoker!
Plus, i never realized how much stale cig smoke STINKS.
In conclusion: e-cigs
Is the argument that: Inhaling smoke is not harmful? Seriously.
I’ve never smoked, but over my lifetime I have seen how smoking apparently looked so very cool. Just about every movie from the 40’s through the 70’s showed everyone smoking. Sometimes there was no scene throughout the movie where a character wasn’t smoking. Now it’s unbelievable how foolish the act of smoking looks.
Yes, some people are genetically lucky and survive decades of inhaling poison, but just on the face of logic if you spend much of your life deeply inhaling toxins and poisons your body is simply going to break down and react negatively. Whether that’s a heart attack, stroke, aneurism, or any multiple health maladies, it’s likely traced back to continually putting toxins in your body.
How foolish to think one can injure their body in this way and have no consequences.
I wonder if the author ever met a smoker suffering from emphysema? I have my doubts that the author has.
Ever see how nasty a bongo gets in short order?
Bong not bongo. Damn autocorrect.
I don’t care if you smoke pot or cigs but don’t blame pot smokers for cigarette Nazis
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