Passive Smoking Doesn't Cause Cancer - Official

13 November 2002

[XDemocrat]

Did you read my reply? I didn't ask anyone to stop smoking in public, I know it takes a lot more that that to stop a drug addict. I said I don't go to smoking places because of the problems it causes, and it would only be considerate of smokers to consider the people around them before they light up. I don't have aids, so are you saying it's ok for me to spit on you and you blow smoke on me? Sounds about equal to me.

[SheLion]

Sorry, facedown. That's an ASH site. I never go there. They are hateful people.

Thanks, though!!!

[metesky]

I personally don't mind if people smoke, but I don't want THEIR smoke served with MY steak.

This is one reason why we believe so strongly in property rights and the free market.

To disallow or to allow smoking should be the owners decision, not the governments anyway and the owner would end up with the clientele he/she preferred.

Some owners don't like smoke and some do; some want a restricted group and some have a "come one, come all" attitude.

All we've ever said on these threads is that the property owner has the right to set his own parameters for the consumption of legal products without government interference.

It is the anti-smokers, the liberals, who can't abide the idea of there being a choice.

[SheLion]

To download a copy of the study, go HERE. You will need adobe acrobat reader, at the least, to read it.

WAY TO GO JOE!!!!!

[Madame Dufarge]

Try this

[SheLion]

When I came across this the first time...I mentioned it to several people and nobody believed it...but it's always nice to be exposed to the scientific vs the emotional truth!

You KNOW it, borisbob! And now with the links Joe and Gabz provided, we have it in print for sure!

[XDemocrat]

I really can't understand why so many of you addicts think it's so bad for me to spit on you, but you should be able to suck on a poison weed, draw the smoke inside you mucous filled, tar coated lungs and then expel it into my nose, mouth and lungs. Could it be that it's because of your addiction and lack of self control you know you could never give up your drug addiction to nicotine and can only try to rationalize it, and just what would an old woman or 15 yr old do to an ex viet nam vet, black belt instructor packing heat?

[SheLion]

Very mature response. I bet it works too! For about the 1/2 second it would take for even a fifteen year old or a woman to respond.

Like I said in my post: I would rather breath second hand smoke ANY day then have some one's body fluids thrown at me. ugh!

[Eva]

My father-in-law also died of lung cancer, at 80, 15 years after he quit smoking. His lungs also looked clear in his check ups, but when he developed the lung cancer, the oncologist told him that the lungs were still damaged, 15 years after he stopped. The sad part is that he was so healthy in every way, when he developed the cancer. He was still running his own tax accounting service, working every day. He probably would have lived to be 100.

[borisbob69]

Get a clue...are you sure your screen name is accurate? You sound like a died-in-the-wool dim lib to me!

Your idea of equal action is juvenile at best. Your deliberate decision to spit on someone vs the unintended entry of our eveil smoke into your personal space highlights the need for people like you to make damn sure you stay away from us...and trust me...I can't imagine a smoker ever volunteering to encroach on your rights. That would require them to be in your vicinity which I suspect is a hate-filled place to be!

[SheLion]

I don't have aids, so are you saying it's ok for me to spit on you and you blow smoke on me? Sounds about equal to me.

Never fear. You and I shall never meet.

And why do you people have the need to get so ugly about this?! We are all American's. That alone, should make us all equal.

[chnsmok]

I think people who jump on the anti-smoking bandwagon, do so because it makes them feel better. By better, I mean, better than you or me. I have been told that my granddaughter-to-be cannot visit at my house. Oh well...

[SheLion]

Try this

Madame, thank you SO much! I'm even getting articles now that I haven't seen before. This means a lot!

Thanks again!!!!

[Red Jones]

you mean those big billboards that shout out that smokers are child abusers are lies??? Oh what a surprise.

[HIDEK6]

One whiff of cigarette smoke and I can't breath for over 24 hours.

And yes, folks, he lived to tell about it!

I want what YOU'RE smoking.

[XDemocrat]

Read my original post, as a conservative I didn't ask that anyone give up their privilege to smoke in public, and the only hate involved with me, is the hate to be ill as a result of someone else's addiction. That is why I stay away from second hand smoke as much as possible. I didn't get hostile until I was attacked, and no I don't really spit on any one, just making the point that you probably wouldn't like it any more that I like your smoke. I find the real liberal are the ones without understanding, or humor. Now don't you feel "cough, cough" guiilty.

[metesky]

Let's do a list of your perfectly reasonable responses to smoke:

Spit in face: Assault, fines and/or jail time.

Black belt assault on civilian: Assault with a deadly weapon, fines, long jail time.

Shooting or threatening to shoot person defending themselves from your assault: Using a gun in the commission of a felony = Bring your toothbrush to court with you, 'cause you're takin' the ride.

Did you leave your brains in Viet Nam, or were you stupid before the war?

Another Keyboard Kommando.

[XDemocrat]

Please addicts, reply to my arguments, not my grammatical errors. Sorry about the typing mistakes, my eyes are a little swollen from the neighbors burning leaves, but that's ok, their yard looks nice.

[HIDEK6]

I've spent thousands on allergy doctors and clinics, all of them say my sinus problems are the result of growing up in a house of heavy smokers.

You might be an ex-democrat, but you certainly remain a current victim.

[HIDEK6]

my eyes are a little swollen from the neighbors burning leaves,

Victmimized, yet again, I see.