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Imperial Tobacco Denies Link Between Smoking, Cancer (It's a myth)
Join Together Online | 10/8/2003

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pufflist
"McTear smoked about 60 cigarettes a day".

Lawsuits are run amok in Britain too, I see.

1 posted on 10/08/2003 10:01:54 AM PDT by South40
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2 posted on 10/08/2003 10:03:18 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: SheLion; Just another Joe
Ooooo, check this out!
3 posted on 10/08/2003 10:04:42 AM PDT by netmilsmom ( FReeper Jonathansmommie finds out about jonathans sibling 10/9- taking bets ~ Boy or Girl?)
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To: netmilsmom; *puff_list
While they are technically correct, there is correlation but not causation, they will lose this one, IMO.
4 posted on 10/08/2003 10:07:49 AM PDT by Just another Joe (FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: South40
He also drank too much


5 posted on 10/08/2003 10:07:55 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
Yes, I've heard.


6 posted on 10/08/2003 10:10:51 AM PDT by South40 (My vote helped defeat bustamante. Did yours?)
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To: South40
I hope they win!
7 posted on 10/08/2003 10:12:35 AM PDT by CSM (www.banallfun.com - Homepage of all Smoke Gnatzies!)
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To: stainlessbanner
and ate to much pu*@# er I mean cat!
8 posted on 10/08/2003 10:13:27 AM PDT by CSM (www.banallfun.com - Homepage of all Smoke Gnatzies!)
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To: Just another Joe
Statistics show that pipe and cigar smokers actually live longer than non-smokers. It's not the tobacco, but that these men generally are wealthier than average and can afford better health care. Not inhaling much smoke into the lungs greatly reduces the health negatives while still delivering the nicotine. It's not the tobacco, but the smoke that does the damage.

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.

9 posted on 10/08/2003 10:27:36 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: South40
If smoking CAUSES cancer, then why do some get it and some don't? The best anyone can truthfully say is that smoking INCREASES your risk of getting cancer.
10 posted on 10/08/2003 10:28:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: South40
I guess the term Coffin Nails must have passed him by.

"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. "
~ John Enoch Powell

11 posted on 10/08/2003 10:43:11 AM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge
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To: Just another Joe
they will lose this one, IMO.

Yes they will, but facts and proof or lack thereof, will have nothing to do with it.

12 posted on 10/08/2003 11:51:58 AM PDT by Great Dane (You can smoke just about everywhere in Denmark.)
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To: CSM

You have a very foul mind. How you thought of that on a smoking thread is beyond me. Nasty
13 posted on 10/08/2003 5:23:03 PM PDT by Stinkerbell
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To: South40
Cool.

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.

14 posted on 10/08/2003 5:40:54 PM PDT by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Stinkerbell
Alf was always looking to eat the family cat! Lighten up!
15 posted on 10/09/2003 5:11:29 AM PDT by CSM (www.banallfun.com - Homepage of all Smoke Gnatzies!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"If smoking CAUSES cancer, then why do some get it and some don't?"

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

16 posted on 10/09/2003 5:19:10 AM PDT by CDHart
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To: Publius6961
Try taking a course in statistics and you may get a clue.
17 posted on 10/09/2003 5:21:45 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: CSM

Ok then I have the foul mind...lol, sorry
18 posted on 10/09/2003 3:26:02 PM PDT by Stinkerbell
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