NO, we DON'T! We already KNOW that smoking might not good for us! As with ANYTHING ELSE!
And if your obese, YOUR NEXT!
Posted on 08/05/2002 5:09:05 AM PDT by SheLion
NO, we DON'T! We already KNOW that smoking might not good for us! As with ANYTHING ELSE!
And if your obese, YOUR NEXT!
So they go in and put the bars out of business. Sounds a little immoral to me!
While I do not know what your profession might be, I suspect that neither you nor shelion are English teachers...
And that's why you aren't on our puff list. For anything you throw at us, we can counteract with the truth. All you know is Junk Science, my friend!
We have researched this issue thoroughly, and the truth shall set you free!
We are a kindly bunch but your kind has turned us cranky. And no matter what you say, your going to get flamed. Sorry, but that's how it it.
If you thought you would come in here and turn our thinking around, you have another think coming.
If smoking is so bad, why don't they ban it?! It IS a legal commodity, you know. So get over it.
"As an oncologist," you should be aware that 75% of the cancer that affects the population is in nonsmokers. Granted, there are only 20,000 or so lung cancers a year in those who don't smoke and aren't around smokers, but that's still quite a lot.
Health Crusaders don't approve of bars, period.To me it's a bit more than immoral...it's money out of my pocket.So they go in and put the bars out of business. Sounds a little immoral to me!
It all started with the "Hillary Clinton of the 19th Century", one Carrie Nation. This harridan, in her zeal for Prohibition, went around physically destroying the insides of bars, presumably with her broomstick. It's a shame no tavern owner apparently ever exercised his Second Amendment rights upon her.
-Eric
Max, good one!
Is that the best you can do?
That and the fact that my IQ is over 100...
Deaths, yes. The number one CANCER in the United States, not by a long shot. And why is it that more lung cancer cases end in death? Could it be because the funding supposedly going for reasearch into a cure has instead been funnelled into engineering society? The American Cancer Society spends less than 16% of its billion-dollar-budget each year on research and a fraction of that on lung cancer. When the nico-Nazis jumped on tobacco as the cause of all the ills in the world, lung cancer became the red-headed stepchild because most were allegedly self-caused. Breast cancer, on the other hand, is a politically popular cancer and gets approximately FIFTEEN TIMES the funding spent on lung cancer, so breast cancer is now far less deadly. Even though far more women GET breast cancer than GET lung cancer, far fewer of them die.
As they lie on their beds facing the inevitable, they all look up and say one thing: "Why did I do this to myself and my family?"
And when they lie on their beds facing the inevitable when they lived what they thought was a "risk-free" life, they all look up and say "How could this happen?" because you and people like you have made them believe, even if only subconsciously, they will live forever if they don't do x, y or z.
Which reminds me of this article:
Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year This article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm.
Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year
You bet. Already done. Thank you!
Pity that your name doesn't reflect your attitude.
Anyway, I have added you to my list, so I won't be responding to anymore of your 14-year-old guy posts.
GROW UP!
Next time listen to your friends.
Let me see if I can help you understand; I may be pi$$ing on a flat rock, but we'll see. Everyone makes choices in life, be they "good" ones or "bad," and those here who you call "apologists" believe that is as it should be. We make our own choices based on our own experiences, and we don't take kindly to others trying to coerce us into living OUR lives the way THEY think is "good." Period.
I come from a long line of long-lived healthy smokers; I'm active and healthy and plan to live a long, full life. Neither my teeth nor my fingers are yellow and I'm less at risk than others I know who don't smoke but live stress-filled lives. In case you're wondering, I detest Big Tobacco--I don't use their products and encourage others to circumvent them as well--but I believe Big Government and Big Anti-Tobacco with their shoddy science and outright lies are far more dangerous to the very fabric of this country than Big Tobacco ever was.
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