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To: Smokin' Joe
Einstein smoked (a pipe). SO much for that BS. Get a life.

I have a life, and so do you, for now.

But don't worry, you're smart for smoking. Just think how smart you will seem to your family and loved ones as they watch you in hospice.

But since you are making the case that smoking is smart, I'll change the little post.

Smoking is a selfishness meter, the more you smoke, the more selfish you are.

64 posted on 08/28/2006 7:27:16 AM PDT by Protagoras (Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas)
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To: Protagoras
You also managed to miss my main point.

I reiterate. We would all be better off if the money which has been pissed away trying to convince people of the obvious,to wit: 'that cigarettes are bad for you', had been, was being, and would be in the future, spent on basic research into curing cancer.

Maybe you feel safe from cancer as a nonsmoker or as someone who is never around smoke from cigarettes. I am happy for you.

Tremendous numbers of people who have never smoked have died of cancer. Many of them before tobacco was introduced to Europeans. When tobacco is gone people will still get cancer. All sorts of cancer, not just lung cancer.

My point is simple. We can fund fundamental research into the disease or waste fortunes trying to make 'nicotine niggers' out of smokers.

We can find a cure which will benefit anyone and everyone who gets cancer, whatever the type or cause, or we can spend fortunes villifying people so we can write smug bromides on the internet.

Frankly, I view the latter as a tremendous waste.

69 posted on 08/28/2006 7:53:53 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Protagoras
Rule #1: You are going to DIE! (you are in fact, in the process of dying right now)

Rule #2: You cannot change rule # 1.

76 posted on 08/28/2006 9:05:11 AM PDT by AFreeBird (... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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