Assignment America: Smoke screens/One of the best articles I have read!

United Press International ^ | 22 August 2002 | John Bloom

[Jaidyn]

I smoked while pregnant and all three boys weighed over eight pounds. Maybe if I didn't smoke I would have had girls! Just kidding. My youngest is 28 years old. None of them have respiratory problems.
The last two times I have had chest X-rays in general checkups, they were fine. Once, I had quit smoking for a short time but started in again. My doctor told me my lungs looked healthy again. I wonder what that was all about?

[SheLion]

..I have told off 2 petitioners asking me to sign to ban smoking. I told them "NO ..leave the smokers alone!"....even though I can't be around them in closed in places.

Well, there is plenty of room for all of us, Sungirl. I realize people don't like to be around smoke. I respect that. That's why we want to keep smoking businesses and non-smoking business, so everyone can live happy! :)

[Just another Joe]

The only think that bothers me about smoke is that having asthma, being in a room with smokers literally takes my breath away.

I can only say that if we were in the same room and I knew about that I would have the common decency to smoke elsewhere.
I couldn't do anything BUT that.

[BushMeister]

Puffer propaganda.

[SheLion]

Jaidyn, I smoked while pg as well. And my girl weighed almost 9 lbs! And she never had asthma. She smokes now, and has her own baby. It's all propaganda. I don't believe none of them. And the Doctor's are being programmed to slam it to us.

[SheLion]

Puffer propaganda

What?

[BushMeister]

I can't believe this smoker circle-jerk. Do you people believe that smoking is hazardous to a smoker's health, in the very least, or not? I can't imagine you don't.

By extension, if the mechanism for transmitting the harmful elements into a smoker's body result from LIGHTING CARCINOGENS ON FIRE AND INHALING THEM, I don't want to be around you when you're doing that.

Sure, we can discuss other issues of exposure, build-up, etc., but I reject the notion that second-hand smoke is harmless. I also am amazed by the mothers crowing about their failure to stop smoking while pregnant.

[fellowpatriot]

My mother smoked thru all eight pregnancies - none of us had ANY respitory problems, none whatsoever. I smoked when I was pregnant with my son (I tried quitting for three days and my poor husband begged me to start again I turned into such a beeaaatch). My son was 8.8 lbs at birth. Today he is 16, stands 6'3", weighs about 190 lbs and plays varsity basketball. He's as healthy as a horse!

[Jaidyn]

We have a bar and smokers are the main source of revenue. Non-smokers come in and complain (there is no smoking section)and are told to sit away from the smoke or are ignored. My other half doesn't smoke but says there is no way anyone is going to dictate who smokes or don't smoke in there. Why do nonsmokers want to be where smokers are? I sure avoid places where my Winstons aren't welcome.

[SheLion]

It's all propaganda. If you notice today, a lot of the young mothers don't smoke, yet their baby's are sick as dogs.

[fellowpatriot]

Show me some hard evidence that smoking causes lung cancer.

[SheLion]

Sure, we can discuss other issues of exposure, build-up, etc., but I reject the notion that second-hand smoke is harmless. I also am amazed by the mothers crowing about their failure to stop smoking while pregnant.

I don't know who you are, but it's none of your damn business. At least we aren't obese!

I guess you would rather we abort our baby's eh?

[Great Dane]

Just got it via e-mail from Roxxon, have it printed already. :-}

[SheLion]

I sure avoid places where my Winstons aren't welcome.

You and me both! We absolutely refuse to spend our hard earned money at a place that doesn't accomodate us. No way! If we can't smoke in a restaurant/bar, we take our money to the place where we can!

We refuse to pay for that personal abuse.

[SheLion]

Just got it via e-mail from Roxxon, have it printed already. :-}

Great Dane, this is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. I got it from Roxx, too, and slapped it on FR! heh! It's really good, isn't it!

[fellowpatriot]

We refuse to pay for that personal abuse.

Good for you! I feel the same way!

[Dawgs of War]

Anybody who believes that cigarette smoke is not dangerous (especially when it comes off the end of cig and not through the filter) is a total dumbass.

[SheLion]

Anybody who believes that cigarette smoke is not dangerous (especially when it comes off the end of cig and not through the filter) is a total dumbass

Listen, daaaaawgs........I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S.
Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the
question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific
fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"

Oak Ridge Labs & Second Hand Smoke

Statistics and Data Sciences Group Projects....so how do you explain that, Daawgs?

[Dawgs of War]

I guess you'll show everybody won't you, when you are gasping for breath or dying of cancer. Your post is the typical response of a fool.

[Eastbound]

Sounds good, Jaidyn. I've had no problems either. . . except for one of my grandchildren who won't come in the house anymore after being brain-washed in school about second-hand smoke.

Looks like they are going to start equating smokers with drug abusers. The doctor said that even one cigarette a day is smoking abuse. This is a VA doctor, and is probably using the new federal terminology created by the Fabian Fascist NGO's working for the UN's WHO.