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.

[Paulus Invictus]

And then they came for the SUVs (but they let me keep mine since it gets good mileage and runs on HOH.

[Old Professer]

Boy, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you don't need a prescription for poison ivy, you can come over to my house and get all you want.

[Old Professer]

So does perfume and those crummy little cakes they put in urinals but they don't kill you.

[Old Professer]

It was too late for you the day you were born; you will die, I guarantee it.

[Bahbah]

All I would have to do is stand on your back porch, point and say "That looks like poison ivy" and that would result in a supperating horror of manor proportions.

[Core_Conservative]

Yup - but with God's grace and Jesus's love I will go to a better place where I will not have to deal with the troubles I caused myself on earth!

[Swordmaker]

"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

Only if someone is smoking Poison Ivy cigarettes...

[Great Dane]

Second hand smoke, is so deluted as to have no effect on anyone, the same can't be said for car fumes and a lot of other toxins

[Great Dane]

And it stinks....

Gee, I wondered where you were at, but there you are.
Husband went to the barber today, in the short time he was there, 2 unwashed people came in smelling so bad, the barber refused to touch them, one mans son came to complain, barber told him to bring his dad in ........... after he had a shower.

[cinFLA]

Gee, I wondered where you were at, but there you are. Husband went to the barber today, in the short time he was there, 2 unwashed people came in smelling so bad, the barber refused to touch them, one mans son came to complain, barber told him to bring his dad in ........... after he had a shower.

Terrible. Probably smokers ....

[Just another Joe]

And it stinks....

If that is all you can come up with you lose the argument from the beginning.

[cinFLA]

If that is all you can come up with you lose the argument from the beginning.

It is not all I can come up with but it is enough to get smoking banned from most public indoor facilities.

[Just another Joe]

:It is not all I can come up with but it is enough to get smoking banned from most public indoor facilities.

Don't bet on it.

[cinFLA]

Don't bet on it.

Don't bet on it? It has already happened....

[cinFLA]

Second hand smoke, is so deluted as to have no effect on anyone, the same can't be said for car fumes and a lot of other toxins

Really. Then why does the "smoker" hold his cig behind his back when standing in line so he doesn't have to smell it?

[Just another Joe]

Don't bet on it? It has already happened....

And it is already being repealed in some places.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Really. Then why does the "smoker" hold his cig behind his back when standing in line so he doesn't have to smell it?

So the dumbarse in front of us dont bump into it and burn both of us! and to keep the guy behind us from getting to close !

[Not Insane]

--Whether smoking should be outlawed is another issue, but folks it ain't good to breathe in smoke as a general principle.--

Technically correct. But quantity DOES matter. You don't get sick every time you're exposed to someone with something communicable because the total exposure must cross some threshold. Below that, it is harmless.

This is true with second-hand smoke. Below a certain threashold, you may smell it, but it is doing no harm whatsoever. Your body filters it away from harm as easily as it does all the other garbage in the air. The smoke is just more VISIBLE.

BTW, I HATE smoking and don't respect people who smoke, regardless of their lifes accomplishments. However, I hate all the bs statistics being bandied about regarding SH smoke. Here in Seattle there are a lot of billboards advertising that 58,000 people a year die of second-hand smoke. What tripe.

It makes me uncomfortable but it's none of the governments stinking business. I sincerely wish they would butt out!

[Not Insane]

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

Well, a lot of us ARE dead. 8-)

[Not Insane]

--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!--

I made that same point to a friend. His response: I was lucky.

I love to remind people who say a thing isn't "safe" that the word "safe" has no meaning without a qualifier. Riding without a seatbelt isn't "safe" but riding a motorcycle with a helmet IS "safe.?" Yeah, right.

Maybe they mean "legal."