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Researchers Debate a License to Smoke Cigarettes
LiveScience ^ | November 13 2012 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 11/14/2012 6:14:38 PM PST by EveningStar

They do it for coal-burning power plants. So how about something for what many consider to be a walking smokestack — the cigarette smoker?

Yes, a license to smoke. Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney in Australia, offers this radical proposal to help reduce the damaging health effects of tobacco, both for the user and the recipient of second-hand smoke.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: license; napl; pufflist; smoking
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To: EveningStar

Are you sure this isn’t already in the healthcare bill? Has anyone actually read the entire thing?


21 posted on 11/14/2012 7:40:13 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
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To: carlo3b
"...A license to screw, and and an advance degree to to procreate!..."

Well, I'm qualified to teach the course, if that helps .................................................................................... FRegards

22 posted on 11/14/2012 8:23:33 PM PST by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms ... FRegards)
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To: ClearBlueSky
Someone help me make sense of this.

You can't.

There is no logic when it comes to liberals.

The term *liberal logic* would be the epitome of an oxymoron.

23 posted on 11/14/2012 8:25:11 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Liberals hate corporations

Notice, Liberals aren’t for legalization of pot instead they are for decriminalization. There is a significant difference.

If pot were legal, companies like Philip Morris etc can make their own pot brands and make billions, however if pot was just decriminalized, Liberals believe companies wouldn’t get involved and it would stay just small time growers.


24 posted on 11/14/2012 8:27:38 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Liberals hate corporations

Notice, Liberals aren’t for legalization of pot instead they are for decriminalization. There is a significant difference.

If pot were legal, companies like Philip Morris etc can make their own pot brands and make billions, however if pot was just decriminalized, Liberals believe companies wouldn’t get involved and it would stay just small time growers.


25 posted on 11/14/2012 8:27:56 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: gonzo

Ha! I’m sure you have the references to back that up.. LOL


26 posted on 11/14/2012 8:48:02 PM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: EveningStar

Why is it, when you hear something this astonishingly stupid, you can always say with a high degree of confidence “Some college professor thought it up.”

It’s a more sure thing than knowing a politician will lie at the drop of a hat or a reporter will never get it right when talking about firearms.


27 posted on 11/14/2012 8:54:13 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (John Winthrop's "City upon a Hill" just became a midden heap. Infested with rats and other vermin.)
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To: qam1

So all the potheads who dream of ‘decriminalization’ of weed will be rudely surprised by the fact that they join tobacco smokers in possessing a legal product they cannot enjoy at home or in public? They can carry it, but not light it up. Guess there’s always brownies, but wanna bet that smoking marijuana won’t be the pollutant( politically) that tobacco is?


28 posted on 11/15/2012 11:50:05 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: Army Air Corps

If they really believe its so horrible, and kills the user and everyone around them, gubmints around the world should just ban the product already.

This nonsense passed the silly stage years ago.


29 posted on 11/15/2012 8:05:06 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer to drink a bunch of them. Stay thirsty my FRiends)
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