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The risks of smoking are greatly exaggerated
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| 20 November 2002
| ERIC BOYD
Posted on 11/26/2002 4:58:07 AM PST by SheLion
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To: metesky
"James P. Siepmann, MD, editor of Journal of Theoretics Probably a little deep for a mere oncologist."
I was able to muddle through in my own pathetic way, although my wife claimed I was moving my lips as I read. You can find much of his material archived at http://www.crank.net/
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posted on
11/27/2002 7:45:20 PM PST
by
Dr. Luv
To: AppyPappy
No one has ever alleged that being overweight won't hurt you. No, but as far as I know, it hasn't been banned or over weight people haven't been told they can't go into a public place where skinny people are.
I have found some really over weight people are almost fanatic about smoking.. I figured maybe they should try it and it might curb their appetites a little bit..
To: VRWC_minion
Thank God for Darwin.
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posted on
11/28/2002 12:33:19 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: VRWC_minion
You haven't posted a person that I don't think the world is better off with out.
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posted on
11/28/2002 12:38:16 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: Dr. Luv
Thanks, Doc. I love crank.net. Talk about the good, the bad and the ugly, it's all there.
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posted on
11/28/2002 3:30:33 AM PST
by
metesky
To: Texas Mom
A fat person does not affect anyone with their weight. A smoker affects people around them with their smoke.
To: VRWC_minion
I don't remembering indicating I was a smoker.
But, you did an admirable job of attempting to insult me, when you clearly didn't have an answer.
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posted on
11/28/2002 7:04:31 AM PST
by
Bogey
To: Great Dane
Since women took up smoking in greater numbers, industry, population and other pollutants has grown equally, count the numer of cars then and now......... I rest my case.
You have no case. As women have increased smoking, their lung cancer and heart attack rates have marched up in lockstep. As men have DECREASED their smoking rates, guess what? THEIR rates of lung cancer and heart attack rates have FALLEN. Why are you so resistant to the idea that directly inhaling the smoke of burning organic matter is not a healthy thing?
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posted on
11/29/2002 5:56:50 AM PST
by
Kozak
To: AppyPappy
A smoker affects people around them with their smoke. Greatly exaggerated as well. Sounds like you have bought into the whole anti smoking program hook, line and sinker..
To: AppyPappy
A fat person does not affect anyone with their weight. A smoker affects people around them with their smoke. Fat people make me sick!
I'm neurotic too.
: )
So I'm entitled to be as irrational as I wish.
Deal with it...
To: Texas Mom
Greatly exaggerated as wellIf you had a child with asthma, you would understand. I took one to the morgue once after an attack brought on by a babysitter smoking. We had to keep my daughter in the house when the neighbor would burn leaves. Enjoy your denial.
To: Publius6961
So I'm entitled to be as irrational as I wish.Paranoia will destroy ya.
To: AppyPappy
If you had a child with asthma, you would understand. I took one to the morgue once after an attack brought on by a babysitter smoking. We had to keep my daughter in the house when the neighbor would burn leaves. Enjoy your denial. I am sorry to hear about your child, There are exceptions asthma being one of them. Why would you hire a baby sitter who smokes. I would never smoke around a child with asthma if that was what triggered an attack and I was aware, and I think most smokers would respect that. But a child or any one with asthma that bad is usually triggered by more than one thing.
At least you didn't tell your neighbor he couldn't burn leaves and try to pass a law but now there is a law in most areas where you can't burn leaves or anything else. Maybe you did. Now we have to pay someone to haul them off. My son was allergic to freshly mown grass but we sure didn't stop cutting the grass. We bagged it then watered down the lawn after it was cut, which seemed to help, and we didn't try to have a law passed that forbid our neighbors from cutting grass.
I'm not living in denial at all. I am aware that there are a lot of people out there who have allergies. I'm allergic to certain perfumes. I try to stay away from them. I don't want them ourlawed. What bothers me is the hysteria on the anti side. It's a campagn of behavioral modification.
I am convinced that most of the anti smoking hype is brought on by the companies like those who make products such as Nicoderm since they sure seem to be pushing " The Patch" "The Gum" "The Pill" etc. The stop smoking campaign has become big business with big bucks to be made and how to you make your business grow if your selling " Nicoderm" etc.? Convince everyone to quit smoking and sell them your product. If that doesn't work, convince non smokers that smoking is bad for them.
To: Texas Mom
It was not my child. I was working at the hospital. The babysitter was an uncle who was told specificly not to smoke He did it anyway. And I'll never forget the look on his face as long as I live when we wheeled the gurney out of ER on the way to the morgue.
Laws are worthless on this but so is denial. People need to know that smoking and excess perfume can cause problems with others. My daughter goes to a school with a child that is so asthmatic that he had to be taken out of school for home-bound study. And his mother smokes in the house and in the car with him. And his mother demands the government spend money to home-school him because he is so sick.
To: AppyPappy
Laws are worthless on this but so is denial. People need to know that smoking and excess perfume can cause problems with others. My daughter goes to a school with a child that is so asthmatic that he had to be taken out of school for home-bound study. And his mother smokes in the house and in the car with him. And his mother demands the government spend money to home-school him because he is so sick.
Difficult situation. How does the mother prevent contact
for her child in public? Grass, stores with perfume counters, potporri in stores, barbeque restaurants. Fumes from automobiles must be horrific. Much more dangerous than second hand smoke. Hard to avoid cars anywhere. Or worse, buses.
An asthmatic child has a tough life. 1200 things currently trigger asthmatic attacks. Hopefully someone will figure out a fix in the not so far future.
I had 2 brothers growing up with asthma in the 60's.
Anything and everything triggered an attack. Very scary stuff.
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posted on
12/01/2002 8:53:01 AM PST
by
Bogey
To: Bogey
How does the mother prevent contact for her child in public? She needs to quit smoking around him. She is making the problem worse.
To: AppyPappy
True. But SHS is the least of most asthmatics problems.
At least the many that I know. They have more problems
dealing with everyday activities. Actually outdoors is the biggest problem my brothers have.
Avoiding grass,and other living things god produced is difficult to do.
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posted on
12/01/2002 11:06:49 AM PST
by
Bogey
To: SheLion
There is no excuse for smoking. lets say for one instance that it is overexagerated. are we really going to let our children and families be exposed to it even though it "might" be bad for you?!?!? My daughter has lung problems, and her father tries to use these same poor excuses to justify him smoking around her. isn't the fact that that they have found toxins and PROVEN that it does kill some people enough to say that we shouldn't be exposing people to it? What do we get from it? NOTHING!!! Does it benefit human kind any? NO IT KILLS!! does it make you feel good? NO YOU HACK YOUR LUNGS OUT EVERY MORNING!! Quit resisting and just accept the fact that there is no good reason to smoke. The only thing you people are trying to do is come up with excuses to keep filling sick and unsuspecting peoples lungs with toxic air. weather its AS bad as they say it is, is irrelevant!! Just the fact that its bad should be common sense enough to stop!!!
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:28:44 PM PST
by
lilmamma18
(How many people will be alive if people like you are trying to convince our kids its okay to smoke??)
To: lilmamma18; The Foolkiller; Just another Joe; Madame Dufarge; Cantiloper; metesky; Judith Anne; ...
(Puff list, check this out! hehe!)The following thread was posted on 11/26/200. This "person" sees fit to resurrect it! heh!
There is no excuse for smoking. lets say for one instance that it is overexagerated. are we really going to let our children and families be exposed to it even though it "might" be bad for you?!?!? My daughter has lung problems, and her father tries to use these same poor excuses to justify him smoking around her. isn't the fact that that they have found toxins and PROVEN that it does kill some people enough to say that we shouldn't be exposing people to it? What do we get from it? NOTHING!!! Does it benefit human kind any? NO IT KILLS!! does it make you feel good? NO YOU HACK YOUR LUNGS OUT EVERY MORNING!! Quit resisting and just accept the fact that there is no good reason to smoke. The only thing you people are trying to do is come up with excuses to keep filling sick and unsuspecting peoples lungs with toxic air. weather its AS bad as they say it is, is irrelevant!! Just the fact that its bad should be common sense enough to stop!!!
I'm not even going to justify answering ANY of your dumb questions. And why or why would did you resurrect a thread from back in 2002???? Are you that hard up to post something??!!
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posted on
03/23/2006 5:50:11 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
Sounds like she has some kind of anti smoking agenda or something.. lol yeah she bumps a 4 year old thread.. that will really get people on her side.. hahah..
Thanks for the ping :)
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posted on
03/23/2006 5:57:40 PM PST
by
eXe
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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