Fags and Drinks 'Can Cause Bowel Cancer'

Hindustan Times ^ | 6/2/09

[nickcarraway]

Take warning!

[KoRn]

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[Gay State Conservative]

Please note that in Britain and former Brit colonies “fag” means cigarettes.

[King Moonracer]

I didn’t realize people smoked there and got bowel cancer. How do they inhale?? ...... Oh.....Never mind.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Fags=ciggies (British vernacular)

However......there’s a great joke just waiting to burst out, there. LOL!

[martin_fierro]

Nope.

Not goin’ there.

Wouldn’t be prudent.

[jessduntno]

Does Bawney Fwank know abowt this?????

[mylife]

I thought in India they were called “beedi’s”?

[Revolting cat!]

... and AIDS, the clap, gone korea, harpies, crabs, warts, and so on...

[OpeEdMunkey]

Please note that in Britain and former Brit colonies “fag” means cigarettes.

Given that it's "bowel cancer" it probably doesn't matter either way.

[OpeEdMunkey]

“gone korea”?

[Squawk 8888]

Actually, a bidi is not a cigarette- they are made by rolling tobacco in and ebony leaf.

[JoeProBono]

[GSP.FAN]

[mylife]

There are all different kinds. Some are all tobbaco

[kingu]

So it's a report on the efforts of others, extrapolating data that means little to draw dramatic conclusions. Why bother with original research when you can simply re-run the numbers someone else came up with.

[Slings and Arrows]

Mark Morford just got to add a second disease vector to his resume.

[newhouse]

Yeah I had forgotten that fags are cigarettes- initially there was a different mental image.

[max americana]

> Please note that in Britain and former Brit colonies “fag” means cigarettes.

I’m ex-Canadian and in BC and the western provinces, it’s still called a ‘smoke’. Even though we still use the Queen’s English back in HS like “harbour” (harbor) or ‘colour” (color), some things we just got from living beside America.