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To: Rome2000
People should be free to smoke, but they should all of the facts.

We know the facts! We also know that "they" are telling us that french fries cause cancer.

Also, the sun, just like smoking, is a class A carcinogen. But I don't see them calling for a ban on IT.

55 posted on 08/01/2002 1:27:55 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
We don't see the liberals calling for a ban on the sun cause its an impractical proposition. Mustn't give em any ideas. Next thing they'll do is tax being out in the sunshine on the grounds we can catch skin cancer from it.
56 posted on 08/01/2002 1:30:35 AM PDT by goldstategop
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To: SheLion
I wouldn't assume that all smokers know that they have a 15% chance of getting lung cancer.

I smoked twenty years and thought the risks were a lot lower.

I don't support taxes or banning smoking anywhere.

I believe second hand smoke is a scam.

I also now know cigarettes are fatal to 15 out of every 100 smokers(thats just lung cancer, not to mention emphysema and heart disease).

Lung cancer kills about 160,000 Americans every year.

I don't really see the parallel to sunshine with statistics like those.

A lot of smokers don't like to hear these facts, and I don't blame them.

66 posted on 08/01/2002 3:26:22 AM PDT by Rome2000
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