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World Traveler
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Dodge7
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Suck BS. I am an EX-smoker and I don't believe most of these. |
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World Traveler
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:51 am Post subject: |
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Why not, man? These are real studies. The information, however, is not common knowledge, which is why I posted this. |
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12ax7
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:32 am Post subject: |
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In the (approximate) words of Fran Lebowitz, 'if second hand smoke is so bad, think what must happen when you drive your car!'. |
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sligo
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Privateer wrote: |
In the (approximate) words of Fran Lebowitz, 'if second hand smoke is so bad, think what must happen when you drive your car!'. |
That sounds like it was meant to be sarcastic, but air pollution from cars is a real health concern as well, and society would probably be wise to move in a less automobile-intensive direction in addition to eliminating public smoking. |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure none of those articles referred to occasional second-hand smoke exposure.
If anything I think people could stand to sit around camp fires a little more... breathe in the warm, woody fumes and remember for a moment the life of our ancient ancestors. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Fox wrote: |
Privateer wrote: |
In the (approximate) words of Fran Lebowitz, 'if second hand smoke is so bad, think what must happen when you drive your car!'. |
That sounds like it was meant to be sarcastic, but air pollution from cars is a real health concern as well, and society would probably be wise to move in a less automobile-intensive direction in addition to eliminating public smoking. |
2nd hand smoke is a joke in terms of danger compared to the fumes and pollution our factories, cars, and power plants generate to the point where its pretty much ridiculous to even worry about it outside of a 24-7 exposure/workplace allergy scenario.
Unless humanity get its head out of its rear and starts worrying about real problems like global warming instead of cosmetic ones like smoking in nightclubs, the death toll from car and factory smoke will be in the billions and all those 2nd hand smoke whiners will wish they had spent a 10th of the energy on reducing pollution as they did in making sure veterans in veterans halls didn't have the right to smoke. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Privateer wrote: |
In the (approximate) words of Fran Lebowitz, 'if second hand smoke is so bad, think what must happen when you drive your car!'. |
Cough cough, haha, cough cough |
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Lunar Groove Gardener
Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Location: 1987 Subaru
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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I remember chain smoking on buses and airplanes.
Now I am in a swarm of scooters chasing buses through
traffic in SE Asia. It seems VERY unlikely that the two could
ever be equal (the pollutants formerly attributed to the
commuter and those contributed by ones chosen form
of transportation).
All my professors at university chain smoked during every class.
Pretty bad example, at least.
That said, it is QUITE unexpected that even in places like Italy
smoking in public has been banned. I would love to know
how many toxins a person in Bangkok, Hanoi, Seoul, or NYC
absorbs just walking to McDonald's for a fatty boom boom with
secret sauce. I'd also like to see the numbers
on the impact of flatulent cattle upon the bee population in
Uruguay and how that impact extrapolates as pertains to fluctuations in produce
cultivation over the past 27 seasons of summer squash.
That said, when we die, our lives will surely flash before us.
I hope mine flashes some glamorous mammories, a swisher sweet
gripped firmly in its teeth.
Agreed though,that E.D. (oh and lung disease) should be cause enough to slow the grinding, self-wrongteous weather measuring of even the most strident defender of cowboy killers.
Lots of love.
LGG |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:31 am Post subject: |
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Luna Lovegood! |
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