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.
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).
We all have to die from something. I would rather die knowing I enjoyed my life, then if I had sat in a corner rocking all my life, not enjoying life and things I find enjoyable.
I don't really see the parallel to sunshine with statistics like those.
The anti nico nazi's say that "second hand smoke" is a Class A Carcinogen. I said " the sun is also a Class A Carcinogen. Are they going to ban it too?"
I saw one article citing a survey concluding that most smokers think cigarettes are eight times as harmful as they actually are.
Actually, according to most information - smokers OVER estimate, rather than underestimate the risks involved in their habit.
A lot of smokers don't like to hear these facts, and I don't blame them.
I didn't realize that edtimates of increased risks were known as facts. The reason most smokers don't like hearing all of this is because we are sick and tired of it. and we know that most of it is over exageration, or as you say in the case of second hand smoke - it's a scam.
Unfortunately your average person has no idea of the significance, or lack thereof, of the terms used about all of this. Epidemiology and statistics are not exact science and the numbers determined for risks using either science can, and are, manipulated anyway the antis want them to be.
Remember, figures don't lie, but liars figure!!!!