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Second-Hand Gas Kills 130,000 Americans a Year -
Yahoo.com ^ | October 20, 2003

Posted on 10/21/2003 9:54:43 AM PDT by UnklGene

Second-Hand Gas Kills 130,000 Americans a Year

Monday October 20, 2003

Federal health officials are expected to soon issue a report warning the public about the dangers of second-hand gas. Human gas, that is.

"Second-hand gas, if inhaled on a regular basis, can cause headache, irritated eyes, emphysema, asthma, bronchitis and in many cases, heart attack," says a physician with ties to the Centers for Disease Control.

"Each year, approximately 130,000 Americans die from second-hand gas -- and many others suffer serious ailments as a result of long-term exposure.

"Gas-passers and non-gas-passers alike must realize the extent to which breaking wind -- commonly called 'farting' -- damages everyone's health."

According to the soon-to-be-released CDC report, each year second-hand gas causes:

800 heart attacks 250 strokes 30,000 asthma attacks 50,000 cases of earache Due to poor dietary habits, there is now an "epidemic" of flatulence in America, the report warns. The average American produces a staggering three pints of gas and breaks wind 14 to 23 times daily.


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To: UnklGene
This should make everyone think twice before "lighting up."
61 posted on 10/21/2003 10:46:14 AM PDT by Agnes Heep
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To: SheLion; Flurry; CSM
I'm running my car on the stuff!
62 posted on 10/21/2003 10:46:36 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"right index finger directly at Player 2 (preferably a person under the age of 5) and must say the phrase "Pull My Finger"."

Be careful, you will be accused of abusing and poisening children. Then the gnatzie will support removale of player 2 from your household!
63 posted on 10/21/2003 10:47:35 AM PDT by CSM (Congrats to Flurry and LE!)
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To: Xenalyte
I prefer to think of it as making my little contribution to the ozone hole.
64 posted on 10/21/2003 10:47:36 AM PDT by Bacon Man (Bacon is never wrong but occasionally fried.)
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To: SheLion
I would have thought it was from onions, but then flurry predicted it and that alone makes it believable!
65 posted on 10/21/2003 10:48:43 AM PDT by CSM (Congrats to Flurry and LE!)
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To: UnklGene
Tom Daschle is concerned... deeply concerned.
66 posted on 10/21/2003 10:49:13 AM PDT by night reader
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To: Gabz
"I have to go brown some meat for the pot of chili I'm making."

I will be sitting at my table with spoon in hand tonight at about 6:00! I need to do my part in this contribution, pass a bowl on over!
67 posted on 10/21/2003 10:50:22 AM PDT by CSM (Congrats to Flurry and LE!)
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To: Flurry
"Soon we will be required to wear a sticker on our butts that warns of this danger."

Oh, no, another prediction! Should we put it next to the "wide load" sticker?
68 posted on 10/21/2003 10:51:57 AM PDT by CSM (Congrats to Flurry and LE!)
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To: UnklGene

Your Honor, I object. Phhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Clunk.

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69 posted on 10/21/2003 10:52:33 AM PDT by GeekDejure
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To: Junior
This whole thing really stinks.
70 posted on 10/21/2003 10:52:59 AM PDT by Nashphil
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To: metesky
That is even more polluting. Second hand food when burned spreads its toxins even faster.
71 posted on 10/21/2003 10:53:44 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Taglines are for the curious to read and the talented to write. Would someone write me one?)
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To: JoeSixPack1
With pickeled eggs and beer..I can do it in 2.5.
72 posted on 10/21/2003 10:54:27 AM PDT by crz
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To: CSM
I wish I could find my second hand food rant on the threads that I posted it on.
73 posted on 10/21/2003 10:55:47 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Taglines are for the curious to read and the talented to write. Would someone write me one?)
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To: CSM
I would have thought it was from onions, but then flurry predicted it and that alone makes it believable!

Hahaaaaa!

74 posted on 10/21/2003 10:57:02 AM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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To: CSM; SheLion
LOL!!!

It won't be ready until at least tomorrow - it needs to percolate!!!!!
75 posted on 10/21/2003 10:57:31 AM PDT by Gabz (Smoke-gnatzies - small minds buzzing in your business - SWAT'EM)
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To: UnklGene
War has been declared on beans-what next?

Look for someone with a lot of powerful friends in government, to invent a catalytic converter, for human anuses, and have the Government enact a law requiring that everyone be equipped with one.
76 posted on 10/21/2003 10:58:21 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (The war on drugs is a tax-payer financed affirmative action program for drug dealers.)
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To: UnklGene
If true, this is at last something to assail the veggie eating, fart producing, second hand gas machines known as PETA freaks.

77 posted on 10/21/2003 11:00:05 AM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: andy58-in-nh
If they ain't aged seven days, they ain't baked beans.
78 posted on 10/21/2003 11:00:13 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (The war on drugs is a tax-payer financed affirmative action program for drug dealers.)
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To: Gabz
It won't be ready until at least tomorrow - it needs to percolate!!!!!

Takes me THAT long to GET there. heheh!

79 posted on 10/21/2003 11:00:56 AM PDT by SheLion (Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
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To: Flurry
I will scan for it, if I can find it I will freepmail it back to you for posting.
80 posted on 10/21/2003 11:01:05 AM PDT by CSM (Congrats to Flurry and LE!)
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