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American Cancer Society catches the Surgeon General in an outright lie...
United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | July 1, 2006

Posted on 07/09/2006 10:11:30 AM PDT by SheLion

The Surgeon General showed up very regal looking to provide a press release rehashing the tired old argument that secondhand smoke is deadly and must be banned. And with his next statement:

Separate "no smoking" sections DO NOT protect you from secondhand smoke. Neither does filtering the air or opening a window.

It seemed a feable attempt to pre-empt any action short of a total smoking ban.....as if to confirm that pro-smoking ban activists' credibility in the public is failing miserably.

Well I am sorry to report that the American Cancer Society conducted air quality testing at several smoking venues which prove the Sugeon General flat out wrong.



Take a look at the above table, do you see the 20 reading? It represents a restaurant with an enclosed (separate) smoking area. And the 20 is actually 20 nanograms, a nanogram is 10 (-9).

So......let me put a number to that nanogram for you: 0.000000020 of a gram/cubic meter was the secondhand smoke concentration for the restaurant with the enclosed smoking area. Which is 25,000 times SAFER than OSHA regulations for the secondhand smoke measured airborne component. Thus the American Cancer Society destroys the Surgeon General's and RWJF (Nicoderm) funded James Repace argument that seperation and ventilation don't work.

The Surgeon General can stomp his feet, and scream at the top of his lungs...like a little Napoleon "....because I said so....." all he wants. But it doesn't change the facts........and the facts show he is telling a bold faced lie to the American public.
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Liar Liar pants on fire!
1 posted on 07/09/2006 10:11:43 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: Just another Joe; Madame Dufarge; Cantiloper; metesky; Judith Anne; lockjaw02; Mears; CSM; ...

2 posted on 07/09/2006 10:12:17 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion

Good post, She Lion!

BTTT!


3 posted on 07/09/2006 10:15:54 AM PDT by fanfan
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To: SheLion

THANK YOU!!!

And the moron brigade is passing LAWS because of this jackass!


4 posted on 07/09/2006 10:22:53 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: SheLion
It seemed a feable attempt

Seriesly?

5 posted on 07/09/2006 10:23:13 AM PDT by Triggerhippie (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
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To: SheLion

Physicians and lawyers are in competition to see who becomes the elite class of the new dark age.


6 posted on 07/09/2006 10:24:03 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SheLion; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; Mears; ...

Nanny Statist Smackdown PING!!!!!


7 posted on 07/09/2006 10:25:54 AM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: SheLion
In the court of public opinion -

It's not the facts.
It's the headlines.

8 posted on 07/09/2006 10:26:38 AM PDT by llevrok ("Drink your beer, damnit! There are people in Africa sober.")
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To: SheLion; All
Just to get this in early on this thread but....
Businesses have lost money since the nine-day-old Colorado smoking ban took effect!

9 posted on 07/09/2006 10:30:31 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: SheLion

better question yet...is just WHO the surgeon general is working for.....


10 posted on 07/09/2006 10:30:56 AM PDT by mo
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To: SheLion
Here's what I don't understand:

I recognize that, as a smoker, you have a much greater risk of acquiring a number of conditions that a non-smoker has a much lower risk of. But smokers are breathing in the carcinogens at a much greater concentration for a much longer time period than the people they live with, let alone those of us who occasionally eat with them in a restaurant.

Consider the following statistics from ASH (Action on Smoking and Health):

Time since quitting

Beneficial health changes that take place

20 minutes

Blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal.

8 hours

Nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in blood reduce by half, oxygen levels return to normal.

24 hours

Carbon monoxide will be eliminated from the body.
Lungs start to clear out mucus and other smoking debris.

48 hours

There is no nicotine left in the body.
Ability to taste and smell is greatly improved.

72 hours

Breathing becomes easier.
Bronchial tubes begin to relax and energy levels increase.

2 - 12 weeks

Circulation improves.

3 - 9 months

Coughs, wheezing and breathing problems improve as lung function is increased by up to 10%.

1 year

Risk of a heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.

10 years

Risk of lung cancer falls to half that of a smoker.

15 years

Risk of heart attack falls to the same as someone who has never smoked.

If this is correct for smokers, what are the timelines like for people that don't inhale directly from cigarettes multiple times a day?

I can buy the fact that prolonged exposure in enclosed spaces can pose health risks (to some extent) for non-smoking family members, but come on! The level of non-smoking deaths we've been quoted don't pass the smell test at all.

I'm not a doctor. In fact, I have no medical aptitude whatsoever. I do know a behavior-modification con-job when I smell one, though.

11 posted on 07/09/2006 10:32:48 AM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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Good post, She Lion!

Thank you!  I'm tired of these people in zoot suits trying to make life more miserable for legal smokers of a legal commodity!

12 posted on 07/09/2006 10:36:42 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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And the moron brigade is passing LAWS because of this jackass!

Yep!  And I don't even think this idiot is a real DOCTOR for heaven's sake! 

13 posted on 07/09/2006 10:37:57 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SpaceBar

Physicians and lawyers are in competition to see who becomes the elite class of the new dark age.

They are making it DARK alright!  And we all know they won't stop at smokers!  They are already into our food and jumping on parents for having obese kids.  Yes, very dark days ahead indeed.


14 posted on 07/09/2006 10:39:22 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion

Me too, and I enjoy your pings, but I don't often comment on those threads because I would come off sounding like a broken record.
LOL.


15 posted on 07/09/2006 10:39:44 AM PDT by fanfan
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To: RandallFlagg
Businesses have lost money since the nine-day-old Colorado smoking ban took effect!

That's all I have been reading of late.  How the smoking ban is affecting businesses and forcing the business owners to lay off, cut back and even close. 

16 posted on 07/09/2006 10:41:12 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Triggerhippie

Hugh...just hugh...


17 posted on 07/09/2006 10:43:00 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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To: mo
better question yet...is just WHO the surgeon general is working for.....

He works out of the White House.  He was appointed by the President.  Not sure if he is a Clintoon hang over or not.  But he was appointed by the President and sits on his council.

No one has even HEARD of this idiot until he jumped on the second hand smoke bandwagon! 

18 posted on 07/09/2006 10:43:11 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Gabz
When the USSG published, he very carefully stated that he was publishing a "scientific" report, and not promulgating a rule. Thus, according to the appellate decision in the EPA case, his finding cannot be challenged in court, no matter how fictional they are.

In phase II of this con job, local governments all over the place will cite his finding as the basis for promulgating new rules, thus accomplishing the same effect - further restrictions on smokers.

This is a planned strategy, IMHO. And the blatant dishonesty makes me ill.

19 posted on 07/09/2006 10:44:13 AM PDT by patton (LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
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To: Egon
I'm sorry.  But I never ready anything put out by ASH, the propaganda machine.  Got to keep the blood pressure normal you know. 
20 posted on 07/09/2006 10:44:50 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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