Posted on 01/10/2005 10:52:26 AM PST by aynrandy
As I said on the other thread before you followed me over here. I have no time to debate you on your pro-crack legalization platform.
How shocking....NOT!
I'm really sick of social engineers (I think that's the new pcname for interfering busybodies, isn't it?).
JAMA 10/1/03:
From the results of their systematic review, Dr Critchley and colleagues1 estimated that individuals who quit smoking have a 30% reduction in their risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD). None of the 20 studies in this analysis, however, reported data regarding exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS). This has been a consistent flaw in most published studies on the health risk of smoking.2 In healthy nonsmokers, exposure to SHS causes acute adverse changes in coronary circulation and increases the risk of CHD mortality by about 30%.3 While there has been a 70% decrease in exposure of persons to SHS since 1988-1991, about half of US nonsmoking adults continue to be exposed chronically to SHS,4 and thus it is likely that many nonsmokers in these studies were exposed to SHS.
I was asking for correlation, not speculation.
That's not what you said ... you said, "No time to debate today." Period.
Same here! I have 3 dogs and a cat that are 15+ years old. I guess them being around me and hubs smoking is making the same dent in their health as it is in the kids'----who have had perfect attendance for the last 3 years at *gasp* Public School!
Uh, the licensing regulations, meant to be "health" I suspect but I could be wrong, are normally there for things that the customer can't see and has no control over.
These things are, also, normally backed by proven science that has no, or very very little, wiggle in it.
The 2nd hand smoke health risk isn't even close to this. It's not only not in the ballpark, it's not in the neighborhood, city, county, state, or country with things such as food poisoning, roaches in the kitchen, etc.
The ONLY thing that these bans are based on is, "I don't like the smell."
Well, get over it. I don't like the smell of the local Arab restaurant either. We better ban Arab food.
And don't give me the old, 'majority of the people', we don't live in a democracy. At least we're not supposed to.
We live in a representative constitutional republic that is supposed to guarantee and defend the rights of the property owners.
Oh, the second hand smoke BS is included in the Delaware law.
And just like you, I despise the social engineer types with a passion.
Some of them have.
But the newest anti-smoker re-tread is really a pain in the keister.
You really should consider putting down the bottle of your screen name once in a while.
Actually correlation is not much better than speculation as correlation does NOT equal causation.
On the plus side, I convinced my Wife to roll her own as well. WOO-HOO!
Yup. The same as anecdotes about Uncle Bill do not equal data.
OMG.....now you've done it..........you have uttered the words that trigger the onslaught of the HTTs.....kids, smoking, and Public School..........
Be afraid, be very afraid.
ROFLMPJO!!!!
Thanks for the ping! This is the first ping I received on this thread. And no, he certainly isn't on 'my' ping list.
Let me read this. Thanks again!
Someone has to do it. I'll put on my Kevlar.
LOL!!! I'm not very PC myself.....I really like sniveling crybabies!!!!
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