Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Paved Paradise; Radix; Wheee The People; Raycpa
Level of proof? Your inference that SHS has caused a single death doesn't even pass the laugh test. If it did, what are you all still doing here? We can play the game of dueling bogus studies until either 3 am or until everyone gets bored...you've got 1,000, we've got 1,000.

There is a legal term called prima facie evidence...i.e. the evidence speaks for itself. There are no deaths associated with ETS. If SHS kills people, why should smokers even bother to quit? The SHS will kill you and them anyway.

Besides Richard Moorehead, can anyone here name 10 other people who have been killed by smoke in a bar? He is the only documented case to date.

Man's Impending Death to be Caused by Second Hand Smoke

In a joint press conference on Friday, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the premature death of a Montana man will be caused by exposure to Second Hand Smoke.

“After extensive conversation with the SAMMEC computers and after long and grueling hours of torturing the data until it told us what we want to hear, we are finally prepared to definitively state that Richard Mooreheads’ death will be a direct result of his exposure to Second Hand Smoke.” Said WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan “We can find no other logical reason for Mr. Mooreheads soon to be tragic demise other than his exposure to SHS.”

The soon to be deceased Mr. Moorehead, 54, an unemployed HIV positive, type 2 diabetic, MS, ALS and kidney dialysis patient who is addicted to Crystal Meth and Heroin, was shocked and visibly angry when told of his diagnosis and cause of death. Reached at his home in an exclusive gated trailer park community in Missoula, MT, Mr. Moorehead blamed his impending death on the careless brutes with cigarettes down at Jim’s Roadhouse Bar on Highway 263. “I’ve never smoked tobacco in my life. But that darn Jim’s Bar was always filled with that there smoke.”

Second Hand Smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of a smoker. It causes an estimated 450,000 deaths per day, according to health authorities, Al Gore and Dionne Warwick’s Psychic Friends Network. It’s also been known to cause AIDS, herpes, hemmorhoids, athlete’s foot and jock itch.

286 posted on 08/19/2007 10:22:59 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 273 | View Replies ]


To: Eric Blair 2084
Level of proof?

Like 9/11 truthers who believe fire can't melt steel, there is no evidence that science can provide that will ever change a smokers mind.

291 posted on 08/19/2007 11:02:32 AM PDT by Wheee The People (Go FRed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 286 | View Replies ]

To: Eric Blair 2084

Back on topic

The Risks to Children are Widely Acknowledged

The conclusion that secondhand smoke causes respiratory effects in children is widely shared and virtually undisputed. Even the tobacco industry does not contest these effects in its media and public relations campaign.

EPA estimates that every year, between 150,000 and 300,000 children under 1-1/2 years of age get bronchitis or pneumonia from breathing secondhand tobacco smoke, resulting in thousands of hospitalizations. In children under 18 years of age, secondhand smoke exposure also results in more coughing and wheezing, a small but significant decrease in lung function, and an increase in fluid in the middle ear. Children with asthma have more frequent and more severe asthma attacks because of exposure to secondhand smoke, which is also a risk factor for the onset of asthma in children who did not previously have symptoms.

Top of page

http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/strsfs.html


294 posted on 08/19/2007 11:19:53 AM PDT by Raycpa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 286 | View Replies ]

To: Eric Blair 2084

Only God knows the real answer.


315 posted on 08/20/2007 11:04:57 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 286 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson