Bottom Line, Bloomy, You're Wrong (secondhand smoke doesn't kill) RUSH LIMBAUGH

Rush Llimbaugh ^ | May 13, 2003 | Rush Llimbaugh

[TLBSHOW]

Bottom Line, Bloomy, You're Wrong

No, folks, I didn't see New York falling apart yet while I was up there on Monday. But there was a big story in the New York Post Monday, a survey of a bunch of restaurants and bars to find out how badly the smoking ban is hurting them. It looks pretty bad in some restaurants and bars, and in other bars and restaurants it's not affecting them at all.

So, Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of the city said, "I don't think that anybody seriously takes something on the front page of the New York Post that has to do with smoking as gospel or as good scholarship or good science. C'mon, I mean they're going to make up stuff no matter what…I'm not trying to hurt anybody's opportunity to smoke. If you want to, you can do it. You just don't have the right to kill somebody else. That's what secondhand smoking does."

Well, the bottom line is secondhand smoke doesn't kill people. There's been a World Health Organization survey that's been suppressed, but nevertheless is out there and posted right here on this site. They found that secondhand smoke might make people uncomfortable, but it doesn't even make them sick and certainly doesn't kill anyone. It's all very overblown, despite what Mayor Bloomberg wants you to believe.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

"First they came for the smokers, and I said nothing because I was not a smoker.

Then they came for Beverly Hills school that has oil rigs near it, but I said nothing because I didn't attend.

Then they came for the Oreos..."

[Williams]

OK, sorry to say it Rush, but ever since I was a kid (a long time ago) and they were debating whether even first hand smoke was bad for your health, it seemed awfully obvious to me that breathing smoke into your lungs was not good for anybody. If anyone wants to believe otherwise, they are putting ideology or their love of smoking over common sense. Whether smoking should be outlawed is another issue, but folks it ain't good to breathe in smoke as a general principle.

[tentmaker]

ditto

[Drew68]

Ping to the puff_list for smoking-related threads.

[Sonny M]

Is there any way to legaly overturn the smoking ban in NYC? Some kind of law or constitutional issue?

[qam1]

If anyone wants to believe otherwise, they are putting ideology or their love of smoking over common sense. Whether smoking should be outlawed is another issue, but folks it ain't good to breathe in smoke as a general principle.

Give me a break, I hate to tell you but life is dangerous maybe you should move into a bubble.

Secondhand smoke is one of the more harmless things you can encounter just in your day to day life. Just look at all the toxins cars, Trucks & busses put out. It takes about 4700 cigarettes smoked just to equal the exhuast one gallon of gas puts out.

[qam1]

They are trying.

Try
http://www.nycclash.com/Lawsuit.html

[Fraulein]

Funny how the children of the 30s, 40s, and 50s have yet to die off from second-hand smoke, don't ya think?

[TLBSHOW]

Then they came for the Oreos..."


I draw the line with oreos,,,,,,,LOL

[Bahbah]

"Funny how the children of the 30s, 40s, and 50s have yet to die off from second-hand smoke, don't ya think."
Yup, my parents smoked like chimneys. I virtually never get sick and haven't had to see a doctor for years for anything but poison ivy.

[cinFLA]

And it stinks....

[Sunshine Sister]

My experience exactly. All the grandparents smoked. My parents smoked. Two of my significant others and all their friends smoked.

Poison ivy and bugs are my worst enemies this day in age.

I also rode a bike without a helmet, drove without a seat belt, and horor of horors, rode a horse without any safety gear, and by golly I grew up without experiencing death. Imagine that!

[Publius6961]

If anyone wants to believe otherwise, they are putting ideology or their love of smoking over common sense.

And if anyone wants to believe that the odor of burning tobacco is the same as "second hand" smoke can continue to practice his/her neuroses and cognitive dissonance...
...over common sense too.

Other than stating the obvious,
What's your point?

[An Old Man]

"haven't had to see a doctor for years for anything but poison ivy"

Me too! Do you suppose it was all that smoking?

LOL

Semper Fi

[Bahbah]

We grew up very much the same way, including the horse thing. My dad sent me off with my cousin with a gun to shoot crows when I was 12. We got 25 cents for each. It was great.

[tbpiper]

Virtually the same story for me. I had asthma as a child but it wasn't my Dad's fault. Anyway, not because of his smoking. I don't smoke and my son has asthma, turns out it's hereditary. My Dad died of lung cancer when I was a senior in highschool, so I don't have a foundness for cigarettes. However, nobody has ever made me go into a smokey bar or resturant against my will. I've always had a choice and sometimes I've put up with the stench to be with friends. I find antismoke crowd far more irritating.

[Core_Conservative]

So sorry Rush - but second hand smoke will hurt people as much as first hand smoke - smoke of any kind kills. If people want to kill themselves (SLOWLEY) then so be it, If they apply for a job at a bar and want people to not smoke they are dilusional - I don't agree with the law that restricts smoking from places - if ya don't like it - go somewhere else. I am on a 1+ year quit from smoking and am still waiting for my lungs to catch up - I have a hard time breathing walking up 2 flights of stairs. I just hope that it wasn't too late for me!

[onyx]

Rush is right. The smoking hysteria is way out of hand, just as Walter Williams predicted many moons ago.

I smoked for years (2, usually 3 packs per day). Quit one day, never missed it. Easiest thing I ever quit.

[schmelvin]

...it seemed awfully obvious to me that breathing smoke into your lungs was not good for anybody.

If you have a wood burning fireplace in your home, you'd better get rid of it. Breathing in all that smoke isn't good for you. No bonfires either. And no barbecuing. It's all bad for you. Very, very BAD.

If you succeed in your efforts to maintain a smokeless environment for yourself, then you will never die.