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To: Gabz; SheLion

Your rebuttal? ;)

It’s coming. And it’s coming fast. My Mayor said he would NOT support a smoking ban...and he was re-elected in a landslide. And guess what? Now he’s FOR a smoking ban, and it starts April 1st. Two pubs and a bowling alley are “exempt” for two more years, for some reason.

That must be where he goes to smoke. *SHRUG*


2 posted on 01/28/2008 5:46:06 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The research that shows this is based on a meta analysis conduct by the US Surgeon General. What they did it take a bunch of studies that were not statistically significant and pooled them together. It’s BS.


3 posted on 01/28/2008 5:48:38 PM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Talk about blowin smoke up somebody’s rear end.
Where’s the scientific proof?
As sensical as Human induced Global Warming.. just the last secular religion prior to ALGORE.


5 posted on 01/28/2008 5:51:24 PM PST by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

So much to rebuttal - so little time...............


7 posted on 01/28/2008 5:54:22 PM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
You know, it's interesting. My Grandmother, who died in 1983 at the age of 93, grew up and lived in a time where everyone smoked, even in elevators and movie house for a while; airplanes, restaurants, even smoked herself - socially. Was alive and kicking until the day she died.

Her husband died much earlier from complications of diabetes.

Life's a crap shoot people. Live your own life and allow others to do the same. If you don't want to associate with people that don't adhere to your lifestyle; then don't. But don't go around trying to be a nanny to everyone else.

13 posted on 01/28/2008 7:08:34 PM PST by AFreeBird (No Romney, No Rudy, No McLame, No Huck, No Paul! Toss the GOP into the ashcan of History.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Smoking related death hit close to home for Casanova two months ago when his 75-year-old sister died from throat cancer that was preventable, he said. She had smoked for 50 years, and as a nurse, she should’ve known better, Casanova said. “But she couldn’t quite quit.”

Considering that the average life expectancy for a female born in 1930 was 63.5 years, and for a female born in 1935 was 65 years, and that his sister was born in 1932, I would say that smoking added 10 years of life to her.

There, how’s that? Do I qualify for a government grant to study the subject?


26 posted on 01/29/2008 7:18:29 AM PST by CSM ("Dogs and beer. Proof that God loves us.- Al Gator (8/24/2007))
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