Posted on 07/15/2006 7:01:38 AM PDT by Moonman62
This is only because smoking has been banned in hospitals, so they're coming from an environment to which they're accustomed into one that's foreign to their bodies. The solution is to hold a small (no more than six or seven players) poker party in the operating room while the surgery is taking place. I have to think of everything ....
Nanny State PING........they're coming out of the woodwork folks.....
No sympathy for what you are pushing. Second hand smoke does very very definitely lead to respiratory problems. My wife had a similar experience growing up. At several points both of us nearly died in childhood from pneumonia and bronchitis. Our son has grown up in a smoke free house and not a minute of health or respiratory problems lung infections, etc. etc.
Chain smoking is hell for those around you.
I grew up (50s, 60s, and on) with a father that smoked cigars and or a pipe his whole adult life, a mother that was smoking long before I entered the womb, and continued to smoke her whole life.
Yes, it did make for a smokey living environment. I even remember as a teenager how I painted our main living areas a number of times, just to "clean up" the walls again.
And yes, I believe the smokey environment (I too began in the 1960s and quit in 1983) did leave its trace in some of the health factors of me and most of my siblings. We all have had one or the other of chronic sinusitus or chronic bronchial congestion. Of course those conditions are greater for those of us who also smoked at some point, but many of these conditions we had as children also.
Here come the tobacco defenders and apologists.
"This can't be! Smoking is harmless! It's just another nanny-state liberal ploy aimed at taking away our personal freedoms!"
This is one area where I part ways with many here on FR.
I'll take a zot, thank you. I F*****g hate cigarettes.
Do you also hate liberties?
No one is trying to make you live with someone that smokes.
No one is trying to make you ride in a car with someone that smokes.
Or is it, just because you hate cigarettes, smoking should be outlawed?
Walking miracle here! Both my parents smoked and I never suffered any respritory problems or other side effects.
As for the article, they have covered their behinds just like they always do.
The study suggests.
Is smoking bad for you? Undoubtedly.
Does smoking cause any type of harm to your body? Undoubtedly.
Is it right for the government to keep you from doing yourself harm? BS.
This article is about ETS, not first hand smoking.
I've been studying the issue of ETS for a number of years now and haven't been able to find any conclusive proof that ETS does anyone any harm unless they have a preexisting medical condition.
I've looked at the studies, I've seen the lies that anti-smokers make about the harm caused by ETS, I've seen liberties being curtailed on the basis of lies, innuendo, and money spent deceiving the public.
You may not like smoking anymore but don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.
The evidence is not there for banning smoking anywhere based on harm done by ETS to public health.
I think that our society simply has a lot more wusses than it used to. I'm still waiting for all of the lead paint that I was exposed to as a kid to do me in.
(Slumps in chair...stops breathing...)
Or that smoking actually cures cancer. Some amazing things come out of a state of denial.
Wait...........it's coming! ;*)
Glad you made it home safe and sound.
Yep-I'm home. Thanks once again for hauling me around! If you get down my way--be sure and let me know.
Really, really getting tired of the bs. Yet, there are some so blinded by their own agendas they cannot see the bs right before their own eyes.
I love Texas................IN JANUARY!!! Seriesly, I would love to be in Texas in August (you know why) and as soon as I find an air conditioned body suit I will book the trip and contact you! ;*)
Wait, I just figured out where you got your name.
You're from the moon, aren't you.
"Or that smoking actually cures cancer"
Anyone who states that, even sarcatically, must be from the moon.
Is it really made of cheese?
EXACTLY.
Just look at the headline of the article....the article itself says no such thing, as you justly point out.
But of course, as we've seen on this thread, the hatred of smokers is so ingrained that they refuse to acknowlege the difference between smoking and being exposed to the smoke of another. And when they are called on it.they disappear back under the rock from which they had emerged and all we hear are crickets chirping.
"Yet, there are some so blinded by their own agendas they cannot see the bs right before their own eyes"
So very true.
Gee, ya THINK!?
Don't worry, they will find a way to blame smoking for the crisis in the middle east soon.. lol
Amazing that after ALL these years previous, where the majority of people smoked, kids seemed to be LESS sick then they are today.
Today kids are allergic to everything, take more pills than most seniors, and almost all have some kind of asthma.
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