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Gaunt Patrick Swayze Defiantly Chain-Smokes As He Battles Cancer
UK Daily Maill ^ | Last updated at 4:54 PM on 14th February 2009

Posted on 02/14/2009 11:27:16 AM PST by lewisglad

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To: jwalsh07

Got a few posters here who would sign banning dihydrogen monoxide petitions ;)


121 posted on 02/14/2009 1:19:39 PM PST by libertarian27 (Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
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To: DesertRhino

Tell that to Roy Castle, and to my late grandfather, who didn’t smoke but was forced to inhale a load of second-hand smoke.
And on what basis do you feel that it is a myth? Crackpot theories and wishful thinking, or genuinely objective scientific research?


122 posted on 02/14/2009 1:20:17 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: lewisglad

Memo to the Nations Busy Bodies:
MIND YOUR OWN @#$%^&*(*&^% BUSINESS.

Any part you did not understand? Good.


123 posted on 02/14/2009 1:21:12 PM PST by Rumplemeyer
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To: libertarian27

>>>Got a few posters here who would sign banning dihydrogen monoxide petitions ;)

Got that right.


124 posted on 02/14/2009 1:21:32 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (ESPN MNF: 3 Putzes talking about football on TV while I'm trying to watch a game.)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Crackpot theories and wishful thinking, or genuinely objective scientific research?

Second-hand smoke does not cause cancer. Says the World Health Organization.

125 posted on 02/14/2009 1:22:12 PM PST by Dianna (Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Dihydrogen monoxide kills hundreds of people every year, and I can imagine congress passing a law banning it. The Texas Legislature passed a resolution commending William Bonnie for his work in population control.


126 posted on 02/14/2009 1:25:26 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: libertarian27
Got a few posters here who would sign banning dihydrogen monoxide petitions ;)

A major greenhouse gas. And since SCOTUS, in it's infinite wisdon, has declared carbon dioxide a pollutant when it is a weak greenhouse gas then dihydrogen monoxide must be the mother of all pollutants.

127 posted on 02/14/2009 1:28:30 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: deannadurbin
Sometimes non-smokers can even smell smoke in the cars in front of us when we are stopped at a light, even when the smokers’ windows are up!

You are a perfect fool and a liar.

128 posted on 02/14/2009 1:28:49 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan; libertarian27
Your father may have died of lung cancer but if he did he didn't get it from second hand smoke. Lots of non smokers die of lung cancer.

The second hand smoke theory has been disproved, even to the point of money being awarded tobacco companies(sorry I am not going to dig for hours in the archives just so I can show you a link, find it yourself, it is there, try about 1998)because of fake reports of second hand smoke.

Second hand smoke was brought out as a scare tactic because trying to scare smokers out of smoking wasn't working, so they decided to scare everyone else into believing smokers were harming the world.

Want a brief lesson in thinking? Ok, here you go: During the 1950s, and earlier, when it was discovered, and proved, that there was a correlation between smoking and cancer, everyone smoked. Now, according to the smoke nazis second hand smoke is actually deadlier than the first hand stuff. Now, stay with me here: If second hand smoke is so deadly, how did they ever prove cigs were causing cancer to start with? Everyone during the 30s,40s, 50s and a good part of the 60s, when they were running the tests and seeing the results, were exposed to second hand smoke.

I mean you couldn't go to a movie without coming out smelling like a cigarette. Everyone breathed it, in school, in church, at movies, in bars,on buses, street cars, trains. Therefore(stay with me)cancer rates should have been just as high in everyone, not just the smokers, their spouses, children and other non-smokers would have had cancer at the same rate therefore their tests would have proved nothing.

The fact that the tests did show that smoking did cause cancer in a smokers at a higher rate than non-smokers proves the second hand smoke crap is just that, crap.

129 posted on 02/14/2009 1:30:40 PM PST by calex59
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To: Madame Dufarge

Now, now; we all know nobody’s perfect, she’s just real good at what she does.


130 posted on 02/14/2009 1:32:44 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: deannadurbin
if you want to avoid risking other people’s health who are around you when you want to light up

By golly, I'll want to use less aluminum, too.
That saves the baby seals from getting brained with aluminum bats.

you’d better not light up

For sure. I don't want to get hauled off to a gulag after all.

131 posted on 02/14/2009 1:33:24 PM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner

Smoking is not a question of right or left or liberal or conservative. Smoking kills regardless of political convictions.

Smokers should not inflict their cancer causing habit on other people via second hand smoke, especially children, people with asthma, or already suppressed immune systems; that’s courtesy and common sense, not politics.


132 posted on 02/14/2009 1:42:17 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: Old Professer

I always enjoy the part where their insanity becomes increasingly apparent, yet they’re oblivious to the reality that normal people have started to cross the street to avoid them.


133 posted on 02/14/2009 1:43:28 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge

No, I’m telling the truth. I can smell the cigarette smoking coming out of closed cars of smokers right next to me on the road. It’s that pungent that it even overwhelms gasoline fumes.

Smokers don’t even smell how bad they smell to others.


134 posted on 02/14/2009 1:44:36 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: libertarian27

I HATE candle smoke WORSE than cigarette smoke!!!


135 posted on 02/14/2009 1:46:58 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
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To: jwalsh07

Most people drive cars because they have to to get to work or school or grocery shopping. They have little choice in the matter. But smoking a cigarette is a choice, one that is not necessary to conducting life’s business, and it also subjects other people to the bad effects of second hand smoke. That is why there are so many laws against it now.

Sure, go ahead and kill yourself with your nasty, filthy cigarette habit, but don’t be so callous or angry or bitter or selfish that you expose others to your added risks.


136 posted on 02/14/2009 1:48:18 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: lewisglad

It’s good to see him out and about. What a fighter. Go, Patrick!

The smoke nazis are hardly worthy mentioning; such small, pinched minds.....


137 posted on 02/14/2009 1:49:21 PM PST by La Enchiladita (God help us)
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To: goodnesswins

http://banthebanwisconsin.wordpress.com/the-camels-nose/


138 posted on 02/14/2009 1:50:03 PM PST by libertarian27 (Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
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To: deannadurbin

I bet you have NO nasty habits, do you....you’re little Miss Perfect.....BBAAAAAWWWWAHHHHHHHHHH


139 posted on 02/14/2009 1:51:35 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
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To: deannadurbin

Deanna, you have no idea what people think of your opinion, either.

And it’s just your opinion. There are a lot of people who will say, for money or the sake of a grant, that second hand smoke causes cancer. It should be very simple to find one study: ONE STUDY, where that is proven, a double blind longitudinal study.

I am quite certain you will not find one. But I’d love to see it, if you do.

BTW, what is the lethal amount of tobacco smoke, in the air. I mean the amount below which it’s safe to smell it. Every lethal gas has an amount where it is safe to inhale and causes no damage, so there ought to be such an amount for cigarette smoke. Can you please find that for me? Thanks.

And PS, I don’t want to discuss anything else except my questions, because of all the smoking discussions I’ve heard on this forum, THOSE are the two issues I’ve never heard smoke nazis (of which you are one) discuss.


140 posted on 02/14/2009 1:52:41 PM PST by Judith Anne
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