Posted on 08/27/2006 8:20:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Just look at the settlement with the states. "
Liawyers have to eat , too!
"It always made me laugh that there was a scientific debate over whether constantly inhaling smoke into your lungs was unhealthy."
But it does actually reduce lung cancer and breast cancer and MS and Lou Gehrigs disease in moderation.
"Lung cancer rates are higher among smokers, period."
Not true if you ar a uranium miner - those that smoked less than 10 a day had less lung cancer than nonsmokers
We have liberals, what more do you want?
I hope it gets more publicity. Cancer has gone on long enough. Maybe it will knock Hitlery out of the media spotlight.
Remember, it's Bush's fault. (sarc)
Could be like 10 years, Clinical trials with people have three stages,...real treatment on real patients starts at stage III....as I remember it....
Thanks!
Right, but what's the point of the comment?
Add "arguing without a point" to your list of things you like to do.
Having witnessed the atrocious conditions of American military cancer facilities, I can tell you that it needs a LOT of work. It may even be better to shut down the VAs and push the money saved into insurance plans with commericial doctors. That way, the soldiers could get top notch care and the government could demand better pricing due to the volume.
Sadly my recollection and continuing inmpression is that VA hospitals are definitely not top calibre. Just another example of a missing chunk in the national conscience.
Once again.. If the research money that has been expended on all the redundant studies which reached the preordained conclusion that 'cigarettes are bad' for you had been spent on research into finding a cure for cancer, we might even be there by now.
Not cut and paste butchery, not zapping someone with radiation, and not poisoning the person, but killing the specific cells which are multiplying uncontrollably.
Find a cancer cure, then it does not matter if you get cancer, and it does not matter why. It could even be from a virus. Get it???
Whether it be from the formaldehyde in your carpet, the flouride in your water, picking your nose in the freeway, the cause does not matter because you can be cured.
Nope you are so hung up on feeling all superior about having quit smoking YOU try to distort my point as being pro tobacco, rather than pro cancer cure.
One last time. Spend the money on good, basic cancer research, not pissing around with billboards and dubious computer models, but find a cure, not a remedy, a cure, something which will benefit everyone, (not just those who despite all social villification, being treated like a second-class citizen, and putting up with the tedious self-righteous rants of ex- and anti-smokers, just might take up the evil habit).
I have a life, and so do you, for now. But don't worry, you're smart for smoking. Just think how smart you will seem to your family and loved ones as they watch you in hospice.
The point I was making that we're all dying. And in fact, one of the primary ingredients required to live - oxygen - is also one of the most corrosive elements in our atmosphere.
The #1 cause of death, is LIFE! (go figure)
Huh? No stem cells were needed?
doncha know?
Life is sexually transmitted and is fatal.
Sheesh....
Thank you for 'getting it'.
Add in the money spent on doing computer simulations to decree "secondhand" smoke as evil, and all the redudnant 'studies' done to further villify smoking, and there would have been one heck of a research budget for biochemistry and microbiology to find ways to interrupt the mechanisms of the disease, once in progress.
Unfortunately, some here are so hung up on arguing about smoking, they can't get at the essential point, that of funding for research to cure all cancer, as opposed to rabidly targeting one source of carcinogens.
Nope. People are not that focused. But even half would be a tremendous improvement, don't you think?
Once again, you are wrong. But nice try at turning your opinion into fact. Sorry though, it won't work.
Find a cancer cure, then it does not matter if you get cancer, and it does not matter why. It could even be from a virus. Get it???
Cancer is only one of the issues, as I have pointed out twice already, but you don't GET IT.
One last time. Spend the money on good, basic cancer research, not pissing around with billboards and dubious computer models, but find a cure, not a remedy, a cure, something which will benefit everyone, (not just those who despite all social villification, being treated like a second-class citizen, and putting up with the tedious self-righteous rants of ex- and anti-smokers, just might take up the evil habit).
One last time, it ain't your money and you don't get to choose how other people spend theirs.
And please don't pretend you aren't advocating smoking, you certainly are, down to your very screen name. Misery loves company.
Most cancers (there are 100+ types of cancer, depending on how you count them) have nothing to do with tobacco use and have little if any relationship to personal choice or lifestyle issues. Yes, there are some possible correlations between obesity and some cancers, but again there is a vast array of cancers for which the patients bear little or no responsibility in any way for their plight. Thus, outside of cigarette smokers, there is no similarity between people arguing for more funding for cancer research and those who have so distorted public debates over HIV/AIDS funding, etc.
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