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To: hattend

Yes -- the average smoker loses 12 years of his life, according to the government epidemiologists, and a recent study said a 20 year old homosexual man will lose on average 8 to 20 years of his life. Yet it's the smokers the liberals give a hard time.


7 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:50 PM PDT by megatherium
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To: megatherium

Yes -- the average smoker loses 12 years of his life, according to the government epidemiologists


What I want to know is how do they know that? In order to calculate years lost you have to have something to subtract from. Are they saying they knew the exact day a person was going to die? Because that is the only way you can throw out figures like this. And I don't know about you but I don't know anyone smoker or not who has known the exact day or year they are going to die. Not to mention, my sister-in-law works in the health care field, she has seen ALOT of smokers die of non-smoking related illness. They try very hard to connect it to their habit but doesn't work. Nothing more than scare tactics to justify raping the American public once again.


19 posted on 07/16/2004 4:33:13 AM PDT by BriarBey
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To: megatherium
"the average smoker loses 12 years of his life, according to the government epidemiologists"

Yea, but those are the wheelchair, adult diaper years, so smoke 'em if ya got 'em!

49 posted on 07/16/2004 4:17:35 PM PDT by paleocon patriarch (Rule One: -"The cover-up is worse than the event." Rule Two: "No one ever remembers the first rule.)
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To: megatherium

OK. We quit smoking, live 12 years longer. NOW THE A$$HOLES CAN BALANCE THE Social Security Trust fund they have been buying votes with all these years.


54 posted on 07/17/2004 5:15:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (If it seem hers like a good idea, imagine it diabolically twisted in the hands of your worst enemies)
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