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Posted on 10/08/2003 10:01:53 AM PDT by South40
In an unprecedented move, Imperial Tobacco will argue in Scotland's Court of Session that there is no conclusive evidence linking smoking with lung cancer, the London Observer reported Oct. 6.
The British tobacco company will make its arguments in a lawsuit brought against it by Margaret McTear of Beith, whose husband, Alf, died of lung cancer in 1993. He smoked Imperial's John Players brand, starting in 1964, seven years before the government health warning was placed on cigarette packs. McTear smoked about 60 cigarettes a day.
In documents filed in court, Imperial Tobacco claims that, "Cigarette smoking has not been scientifically established as a cause of lung cancer. The cause or causes of lung cancer are unknown."
The British government accepted a link between smoking and cancer in 1957, after reviewing decades of scientific proof.
Imperial Tobacco will argue that the research shows a "statistical association between cigarette smoking," but not complete proof.
The lawsuit seeks $835,000. The case is the first in the United Kingdom to go to court.
Lawsuits are run amok in Britain too, I see.
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For many years life insurance companies did not charge more to pipe and cigar smokers because their was no statistical evidence that these smokers died sooner. However, lawyers and politically correct politicians got involved "making the world a better place for a small fee". Now it's hard to find life insurance that does not charge more for this habit. When math meets leftism, math always loses.
"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. "
~ John Enoch Powell
Yes they will, but facts and proof or lack thereof, will have nothing to do with it.
Perhaps this will address two questions always avoided by the anti-smoking nazis:
a) Why do some people who never smoke and never lived with smokers develop lung cancer?
b) Why did, of the documented 10 longest-lived people of record, did 9 smoke past age 100?
These questions are both like garlic to vampires.
As a former smoker (3 pks a day for 35-40 years) and a 5-yr. lung cancer survivor thanks to God, good doctors and a special diet, I've learned that in addition to the smoking, you also have to have the gene for lung cancer. It's the same as the one for colon cancer, from what I've read. Colo-rectal cancer runs in my family, also.
The research is tending toward concluding that inflammation is a precursor for cancer. And think about it -- sunburn (inflammation) is a precursor for skin cancer, lung irritation (inflammation) is a precursor of lung cancer, whether by smoke or asbestos or something else. Also a lot of singers appear to get throat cancer. There is much more work to be done, but I think that diet plays a large part as well.
Carolyn
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