Posted on 11/12/2007 6:51:35 AM PST by fanfan
Now Im wondering.
Know this: If smoking/lung cancer/sponge lung or whatever doesn't get you, something else most assuredly will.
One of the beauties of life on this level of existence is that we can literally pick our own poison. We're only here for a while. Live life as you want it; it is, after all, your life.
For sure, all of our actions have consequences, but those are the types of things I believe we are supposed to learn about during our stay here.
Just one guy's opinion...
CA....
Carolyn
Oh stop. People do have reactions to tobacco smoke. Does it matter if it is anaphylactic or anaphylactoid? No, tobacco smoke cause some people to have trouble breathing, FACT! Does it matter if you break your right leg or your left leg? Your argument makes just as much sense.
No, I am not saying that, just have always thought that she did so good giving up smoking and really trying to have a healthy lifestyle for ten years with diet and arobics and then gets lung cancer, seemed odd.
Unless they're hooked up to an oxygen tank....then KABOOM! There's a death by smoking I wouldn't want to experience!
Put them on a nicotine patch if they need nicotine that bad!
Interesting article! I’ve stopped smoking for verious periods of time (the most recent for over a year now). Should I start smoking again to insure I don’t develop lung cancer?
Sort of does if you drive a stick shift---sorry, just couldn't resist :-)
I used to live in South Korea and it was quite a sight seeing doctors standing outside with their patients (in hospital gowns, IV's etc.) smoking together. I imagine that's what it would have looked like in the '50's here in the US as well. LOL!
There's a scene in April Snow where the wife has awakened from a coma after a severe car accident. She's in a wheelchair and her husband is pushing it and when they get outside for a talk, she asks him for a cigarette. He asks her if the doctor said it was alright and she said yes. Surreal, IMO! LOL!
Oh, come on, think about starting smoking and how cool you would look to the other kids.
My experience is exactly the opposite.
I am a non smoker and I think that smoking is about the dumbest thing you can do, but I cannot tell you when I met a rude smoker. They are almost courteous to a fault.
The anti smoking nazis will push their agenda no matter what. The rudeness — or lack of it by smokers — matters not. They have an agenda and nothing will stop them.
My experience is exactly the opposite.
I am a non smoker and I think that smoking is about the dumbest thing you can do, but I cannot tell you when I met a rude smoker. They are almost courteous to a fault.
The anti smoking nazis will push their agenda no matter what. The rudeness — or lack of it by smokers — matters not. They have an agenda and nothing will stop them.
“Peter Jennings resumed chain smoking after the 09/11 attacks.”
Yes, I remember reading that too. He had quit 20 years earlier and then resumed after 9/11.
KIDS? LMAO! I am nowhere NEAR a "kid"...;-) (Maybe at heart)
"Medical Hypotheses takes a deliberately different approach to peer review. Most contemporary practice tends to discriminate against radical ideas that conflict with current theory and practice. Medical Hypotheses will publish radical ideas, so long as they are coherent and clearly expressed. Furthermore, traditional peer review can oblige authors to distort their true views to satisfy referees, and so diminish authorial responsibility and accountability. In Medical Hypotheses, the authors' responsibility for integrity, precision and accuracy of their work is paramount. The editor sees his role as a "chooser", and not a "changer": choosing to publish what are judged to be the best papers from those submitted."
It isn't peer reviewed. LOL
Also from their website:
Impact factor of this journal 2006: 1.299 2005 Impact Factor 0.920<BR> (sic -- lol, badly written webpage) 2004 Impact Factor 0.607 Journal Citation Reports® 2007, published by Thomson Scientific
In conclusion, I think that we have reason to be skeptical of non-peer reviewed papers published in journals that nobody reads that make very unusual claims. XD
LOL! I thought about getting into and out of the car too.
You know, my husband and I had stick shifts for years. Loved driving them, but finally it dawned on me that we should have at least one automatic just in case.
If you had been alive in the US in the 50’s you would have seen the doctors and their patients smoking INSIDE the patients rooms in the hospital.
Best of luck to you.
Do what feels right, may actually be good medical advice.
Your body will tell you......
How many people wait to quit smoking until they begin to feel unhealthy?
THese genius doctors ever think of that? Maybe these old life long smokers finally quit smoking because they feel something is awry! And they feel that way because SOMETHING IS AWRY! Then they die a few short years later.
HELLO?
Maybe the key is to quit BEFORE you feel you need to.
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