[Colosis]

Maybe they should ban smokers, now that their saliva is a threat to us all.

[Fintan]

Probably not much worse than Monica Lewinsky's saliva.

 

[Born Conservative]

Ping

[aruanan]

Smoking and drinking are the leading causes of head and neck or oral cancers,

Strange that they didn't say anything about the chemical interactions between cigarette smoke and liquor in the mouth. That combined with chemical changes in saliva could be very interesting.

[xm177e2]

Maybe they should ban smokers, now that their saliva is a threat to us all.

Maybe they should ban science, because it makes smokers feel bad about themselves emotionally. After all, that's what's important, right?

[Conspiracy Guy]

More scientific smoke bellowing from the scientific anus.

[camle]

geez! it's a wonder smokers don't glow in the dark with all these contanimants they cause! Now they have "love canal" mouth!

what next? toxic seminal fluid?

[Condor51]

Nearly 400,000 new cases of the illness are diagnosed worldwide each year with the majority in developing countries.

Uh, hello you brainiac 'scientists'. I think you're overlooking the obvious here.
(what else is new, sheesh)

[CSM]

In research reported in the British Journal of Cancer on Wednesday, Nagler and his team studied the impact of cigarette smoke on cancerous cells in the laboratory.

Half of the cells were exposed to saliva exposed to cigarette smoke and the other half just to the smoke. Cells exposed to the saliva mixture had more damage and it increased along with the time of exposure.

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Seems to me that the conclusion is clearly that saliva causes cancer to accelerate! The saliva mixture being the key element and allllllllllllllllll!

[Allegra]

I read that article and had to go out and smoke and Benson & Hedges Light.

[GROOVY]

Maybe they should ban smokers, now that their saliva is a threat to us all.

At least they should ban kissing a smoker..

[Nik Naym]

I thought it had already been established that saliva causes cancer?

Of course, there is nothing to worry about, as this can only happen if it is swallowed in small amounts over long periods of time.

[FairWitness]

Saliva is an ultrafiltrate of plasma (speaking with my biochemist hat one). In other words, whatever is in saliva is also in blood/plasma (including ingested drugs - you can do a drug test on saliva same as you could on blood, though blood is much more pleasant to work with) and will find its way to the cells via their blood supply. I am skeptical of this report without knowing a lot more about it.

[chilepepper]

All of this is easy to avoid: french kiss a dog, with lots of tongue action. Dog spit is very healthy...

[cinFLA]

Maybe they should ban smokers, now that their saliva is a threat to us all.

Years ago in high school we discovered that kissing a girl that smoked was like licking a used ashtray.

[MontanaBeth]

I remember an old Saturday Live routine, where the newscaster, Chevy Chase, reported that saliva has been found to cause cancer, but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Smoking is such a nasty habit.

[VRWC_minion]

A new product idea is born. All a smoker has to do is dry out his mouth before smoking to reduce his changes of cancer. They can alternate sucking on cigarettes and on special tampons to absorb the saliva. They wouldn't look and sillier.

[spodefly]

"Most people will find it very shocking that the mixture of saliva and smoke is actually more lethal to cells in the mouth than cigarette smoke alone," Nagler added in a statement.

This is why I always make sure I have no saliva in my mouth when I smoke.

[hosepipe]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.-- C. S. Lewis

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

I shudder to think of the dangers of "second hand saliva"!!!