To: SheLion
I agree with you, it's too bad the surgeon general doesn't jusr ban tobacco altogether, the "pull the band-aid off quickly rather than slowly" and we'll all be done with this highly poisonous substance.
My brother's asthma is now so bad he had to be put on steroids to breathe. Three of the five children in our family have asthma, the direct result of smoking parents.
Suggestion: Go to the zoo. Put a long pipe into the lion's cage and pump in tobacco smoke. See how many minutes it takes to be arrested. Make it a she-lion.
Oh, the injustice of it all!
6 posted on
03/04/2004 2:29:25 PM PST by
at bay
(no deals, Jacquelyn, only choice of lobster, steak or chicken for last dinner party of one)
To: at bay
Suggestion: Go to the zoo. Put a long pipe into the lion's cage and pump in tobacco smoke. See how many minutes it takes to be arrested. Make it a she-lion. Your feelings for me are quite plain.
However, how about you sitting in a closed garage with your car running, and I will sit in a car with smokers. See which one of us lives the longest!
10 posted on
03/04/2004 3:06:12 PM PST by
SheLion
(Curiosity killed the cat BUT satisfaction brought her back!!!)
To: at bay; SheLion
Asthma has nothing to do with smoking. Correlation does not equal causation nor do anecdotes equal data.
11 posted on
03/04/2004 3:07:56 PM PST by
annyokie
(There are two sides to every argument, but I'm too busy to listen to yours.)
To: at bay
California is a great place for a child with asthma to grow up, with polution in the cities equal to smoking a pack a day.
16 posted on
03/04/2004 3:28:26 PM PST by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
To: at bay
I'm sorry about the three kids with asthma but their parents' smoking didn't give it to them.
I was a severe asthmatic from age 5 until age 21,in a non-smoking home.I started smoking in my late teens and am still smoking 50 years later and no more asthma.
I raised 5 kids and my husband and I both smoked and none of our kids had asthma.
I'm certainly not saying smoking is good for asthmatics,although Teddy Roosevelt's fancy doctors thought it was.(in the book "Mornings on Horseback). I just feel that smoking is blamed for everything today,from low birth weight to delinquency.
If smoking causes asthma how did the many thousands of kids who live in non-smoking homes get it?
17 posted on
03/04/2004 4:49:45 PM PST by
Mears
To: at bay
My brother's asthma is now so bad he had to be put on steroids to breathe. Three of the five children in our family have asthma, the direct result of smoking parents.Asthma is not caused by smoking...... first or second hand, it can be agrivated by it.
Think about it, with a lot fewer smoking, how come cases of Asthma is on a sharp increase.
24 posted on
03/04/2004 7:03:45 PM PST by
Great Dane
(You can smoke just about everywhere in Denmark.)
To: at bay
Liar!
We all know that only smokers get cancer and asthma! It is impossible for a non smoker to contract any detrimental disease!
Pass me more kool-aide please!
34 posted on
03/05/2004 5:15:03 AM PST by
CSM
(Looking for a stay at home mom for my future offspring!)
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