The risks of smoking are greatly exaggerated

TheRecord.com ^ | 20 November 2002 | ERIC BOYD

[azhenfud]

"What state do you live in? I might have on hand what the smokers contribute to the state economy in your state."

That could be a fairly large hand since I am in North Carolina....

[SheLion]

I do not smoke and I see a link to slamming smoking while drug companies push all sorts of drugs to cope. Smoking bad, chemical coping acceptable..............

That's how this war on the smokers got started. Big Pharm invented their wonderful (?) kick smoking aides, so then they wanted everyone to quit smoking so smokers could be dependent on THEM!

Click on photo.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

""My wife, who is a chemist, is damn tired of BS science being used by advocacy groups and an enabling media who asks for no relevant facts, data, or sources to the table, just scary claims, shocking accusations, and WAG'd numbers.""

Then she would also be tired of (like I am) the stupid junk science that is being used about the dioxin scare. It's costing jobs, livelihoods, and business profits.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

""NBC had a report Monday night of a non-smoker who got lung-cancer. Never in the entire story did they mention RADON. ""

Amen. You never hear of explanations as to why people who never smoked got lung cancer. Radon is one of those explanations. But why research that, when second hand smoke fulfills their agenda so much better!

[SheLion]

It looks to me that it is physically impossible to generate enough carcinogen to get cancer.

Thank you! Your so right. I wished more people could see the irony of this.

[SheLion]

Imagine that! My uncle, great uncle, geat uncle, grandfather, and cousin all died of strawberry poisoning. The fact that they all smoked like stacks while none of the other close relatives who didn't smoke are still alive or lived normal life spans is completely irrevalent, I'm sure.

Oh common! Get serious! You wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?

[SheLion]

Last night one of the left wing nightly news shows were scaring people saying second hand smoke was a dedly killer and basically they were saying if you've even seen someone smoking you'll probably soon die.

The well-funded anti-smoking health coalition will stop at NOTHING to achieve their end goal! NOTHING!

They think everyone out here condones their stupid lies. And they laugh all the way to the bank, while leaving closed business's, lay-offs and lost revenue in their wake.

[SheLion]

Federal courts are not medically knowledgable to make such decisions and despite the gracious nodding from the smoking community, the court justices often render "quack" rulings. (Ex. 9th Circuit - Pledge of Allegiance

It took the Federal Court "5" years to reach their conclusion, after much research from medical sources helping the court.

[SheLion]

Would all of the obese (and you know who you are) anti-smokers please shut-up?

Yes, I agree!

LOL!

[Great Dane]

I would be tempted to believe this if I didn't know so many people who were destroyed by smoking and saved by stopping.

And I happen to know a lot of smokers living with no ill effects.

[SheLion]

BTW, Ann Coulter said that you can't have an intelligent discussion with a liberal because all they want to do is to ridicule or insult the other side.

Ann is so right. Have you noticed that when an anti-smoker reaches the end of their knowledge, they resort to personal attacks? I have seen this time and time again in here. That is why I started the "Conservative Anti-Smokers Hate List." I anotate every anti-smoker that I run into, in here. To date, there are a little over 40. Pity.

Most people just go on what they have been told, what they see on TV and that alone, is enough to turn them against smokers. They believe all the rhetoric that is thrown at us, taking it at face value without doing any research whatsoever. Personal opinion does not a fact make.

[SheLion]

Try telling them that you will deduct the cost of your dry cleaning from the bill if you come out smelling like cigarette smoke. It works like a charm.

You can wash off the smell of smoke. But bigotry is bone deep!

[Great Dane]

Sigh. Tell that to all the folks in my waiting room....

Again I will ask, are all your clients smokers. ?

[SheLion]

You keep using that term as if to indimidate, but because smokers are so "undercoated with tar" they can't smell, doesn't make the scent of a trash fire any better....

Oh! That's ridiculous. I have the best nose in the North! Don't come on to me with those ridiculous accusations!

[Great Dane]

NBC had a report Monday night of a non-smoker who got lung-cancer. Never in the entire story did they mention RADON.

And radon occurs in most homes naturally, with our houses sealed up the way they are today, radon becomes a risk.

[SheLion]

They can prevent death by quitting.

Hey! When the cure death, I might quit smoking.

[azhenfud]

"after much research from medical sources helping the court."

And with exactly how much protest from the tobacco industry? I would like the names of these "medical sources" that directed the court as such with their "research".

As I see it, it took time before Bubba Clinton and his anti-smoking crowd were replaced with a more tolerant administration. The report you cited was generated under Bubba and thusly was tilted. Again, Federal Court rulings aren't without error - they'd have done the same if the report were overly whitewashed in smoking's favor.

[verity]

You are definitely working exhaustively to justify your addiction.

[azhenfud]

"Don't come on to me with those ridiculous accusations!"

Ridiculous? If I hadn't been there, I wouldn't make such "accusations". My years of tenure at the butt end and then quitting is enough experience to qualify my statement.

[Great Dane]

#31....... But you have the option to stay out of establishments allowing smoking........ it's called freedom of choice.