Assignment America: Smoke screens/One of the best articles I have read!

United Press International ^ | 22 August 2002 | John Bloom

[SheLion]

Finally! A Journalist who makes sense!

[SheLion]

Yes Sir! I LIKE this article!!!!

[SheLion]

I'm sending this guy a nice email! Finally, someone in the press who makes sense!

[fellowpatriot]

The second-hand smoke scare is a political farce. It was invented in the mid-1990s by the Clinton administration -- it has Hillary's hands all over it -- because anti-smoking radicals, who tend to be like anti-abortion radicals in their zealous devotion to the cause, actually convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to change its "conventional standard for statistical significance" so that second-hand smoke could be proven to be a killer.

As much as I wish this was true, the bs about second-hand smoke actually started prior to sinkspur and hitlery - but they sure promoted this lie along with all of the other enviro-wacko theories! One of the first things that 'president hitlery' did was to ban smoking in the whitehouse (we all know how billyboy used the cigars - oh well, as long as he didn't actually smoke them!)

[Steve Eisenberg]

A book I just read and loved, "The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine," by James Le Fanu, touches on some of this.

Second hand smoke is hardly the only myth. Also mythical are almost all claims linking diet and health.

The original proof that smoking causes lung cancer was impressive. The decline in smoking has saved millions of lives. But subsequent efforts to find other ways people could get healthier by changing their behavior have largely failed.

[Bahbah]

Excellent analysis.

[SheLion]

(we all know how billyboy used the cigars - oh well, as long as he didn't actually smoke them!)

ewwwwwwww.......what an image I have of THAT! ack! heh!

[SheLion]

Second hand smoke is hardly the only myth. Also mythical are almost all claims linking diet and health.

Right! And look at the war on obesity today. They have to keep the fur flying, I am afraid.

[Just another Joe]

That's a bookmark.

[Eastbound]

Great article. I went to get my medical checkup to day and told the doctor about the Supreme Court decision concerning second hand smoke. He said he wasn't concerned with second-hand smoke, only first-hand smoke. I told him I've been smoking a pack a day for the last 62 (sixty two) years, so he sent me over to get an x-ray with a sheet of paper on it identifying me as a smoking abuser. When I go back, I'm going to ask him if he identifies people who are overweight as food abusers. Will let you know what the x-rays show. In the meantime, do you have any studies on first-hand smoke I can bone up on? Thanks... Dave

[AdamSelene235]

The original proof that smoking causes lung cancer was impressive. The decline in smoking has saved millions of lives. But subsequent efforts to find other ways people could get healthier by changing their behavior have largely failed.

This is parallel to the Polio success/HIV failure story.

[SheLion]

That's a bookmark

It's a great article, isn't it Joe? I was really impressed with this one!

[Eastbound]

To the doctor's credit, he agreed that it is not government's call to ban smoking in bars, restaurants, etc, and said it was the decision of the business owners.

[fellowpatriot]

ewwwwwwww.......what an image I have of THAT! ack! heh!

Sorry about that - gee, I wonder which method of use is considered better for your health!

[Just another Joe]

I told him I've been smoking a pack a day for the last 62 (sixty two) years, so he sent me over to get an x-ray with a sheet of paper on it identifying me as a smoking abuser.

I would have stood up and told him that he just lost a patient and walked out the door.
I'll be DAMNED if I take that type of abuse from ANYBODY.
If my physician says that that worries her and would like me to get an x-ray, that's one thing. When they do what you just described they can KISS MY A$$.

[Just another Joe]

Sorry about that - gee, I wonder which method of use is considered better for your health!

I guess that would depend on whether you had a reaction to smoke or tobacco. ;^)

[SheLion]

Will let you know what the x-rays show. In the meantime, do you have any studies on first-hand smoke I can bone up on?

A smoker abuser? That's pretty cruel. And your right: Does he call obese patients "food abusers?" That's really sad, coming from a professional. I would kick his butt.

Well, nothing but common sense in the way of smoking. Its like anything else......nothing is good for us, so we pick and choose what we like that isn't good for us.

[Sungirl]

The only think that bothers me about smoke is that having asthma, being in a room with smokers literally takes my breath away. I have to leave.
But, just for the record..I have told off 2 petitioners asking me to sign to ban smoking. I told them "NO ..leave the smokers alone!"....even though I can't be around them in closed in places.

[SheLion]

Smoking Abuser.

Isn't that awful, Joe? I would have kicked him in the butt!

[fellowpatriot]

I'd just love to see a study on that! Hee, hee!