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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:43 pm Post subject: Look, I fixed it! |
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Let's create another law or legislation that won't be enforced or even advertised. I also doubt that stats that say that only 3.9% of women smoke.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/01/117_58508.html
"In response to the rising smoking rate, the ministry plans to intensify anti-smoking efforts by designating more parks, hospitals and other public facilities as smoking-free areas." |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen these statistics a few weeks ago. That newspapers nowadays simply print without questioning the numbers is one of the reason that I hardly read more than the title and the funny pages.
One way to get to that ridiculous number of 3.9% could have been the way the survey was conducted:
Q: Sir, do you smoke?
A: Yes, sure.
Q: And how about your wife/daughter/mother, sir?
A: No, of course she doesn't!
[scribbles on his notepad] Thank you for your time sir.
At 3.9%, the entire smoking female population of Korea would be sitting in Tom'n'Toms 365/24/7 (from my own observations).
Unless "smoking" in Korea is only considered a "yes" if it's more than 1 pack a day.
Or (shock! horror!) the female respondents simply lied?
Or it is an image thing to conserve the purity of Korean women?
3.9%, that's the number of Korean women who'd agree to date me. Silly news. |
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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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100% of women's bathroom stalls have cig burns on the paper dispensers. Maybe every woman smokes? Nicotene is an appetite suppressant. Take that away and BOOM!
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I have seen these statistics a few weeks ago. That newspapers nowadays simply print without questioning the numbers is one of the reason that I hardly read more than the title and the funny pages.
One way to get to that ridiculous number of 3.9% could have been the way the survey was conducted:
Q: Sir, do you smoke?
A: Yes, sure.
Q: And how about your wife/daughter/mother, sir?
A: No, of course she doesn't!
[scribbles on his notepad] Thank you for your time sir.
At 3.9%, the entire smoking female population of Korea would be sitting in Tom'n'Toms 365/24/7 (from my own observations).
Unless "smoking" in Korea is only considered a "yes" if it's more than 1 pack a day.
Or (shock! horror!) the female respondents simply lied?
Or it is an image thing to conserve the purity of Korean women?
3.9%, that's the number of Korean women who'd agree to date me. Silly news. |
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Beeyee
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Look, I fixed it! |
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| Crockpot2001 wrote: |
"In response to the rising smoking rate, the ministry plans to intensify anti-smoking efforts by designating more parks, hospitals and other public facilities as smoking-free areas." |
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: Look, I fixed it! |
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| Beeyee wrote: |
| Crockpot2001 wrote: |
"In response to the rising smoking rate, the ministry plans to intensify anti-smoking efforts by designating more parks, hospitals and other public facilities as smoking-free areas." |
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! |
Funny that hospitals are apparently still on the legal side of smoking. Better for long term business, I guess. However, as a smoker myself, I made a few rules for hospital smoking:
- Do not smoke in the vicinity of oxygen tanks or emphysema patients with O2 tanks (your cigarette will burn much faster and you will have less time to enjoy)
- In the maternity ward, do not blow smoke directly at your own baby. Don't let baby hold cigarette (lack of muscular control means that cigarette may break).
- If no other place available, find the coma ward. Nobody ever complains there.
- If a patient yourself, don't smoke in bed (but you knew that). At least, sit up.
All in all, I'd trade the hospitals (which are depressing) for the malls (which are fun). Those were the days when one could light up a cheap cigar in an elevator full of Christmas shoppers  |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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I am surprised KAL doesn't allow smoking on domestic flights and I am surprised the Korean government doesn't promote smoking during pregnancy.
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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I am surprised KAL doesn't allow smoking on domestic flights and I am surprised the Korean government doesn't promote smoking during pregnancy.
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Gaah... not even on trains (at least the KTX) or the subway, buses, taxis... all great places for a smoke and all well contained inside Korea.
It would be real fun to set up a hoax web site promoting pregnancy smoking (including links to nicotin patches that would pre-train the embryo in case the mother does not smoke herself). Done right this could be as much fun as the old 'bonsai kitten' pages.
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eIn07912
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| mc_jc wrote: |
I am surprised KAL doesn't allow smoking on domestic flights and I am surprised the Korean government doesn't promote smoking during pregnancy.
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All things in good time.
I had an ex Korean gf that was a bit on the chubby side (well, for a Korean girl anyways. At home she would be "average"). She was selfconcious about it, so she went to one of those "slimming clinics."
Here was the Docs advice.
-Get vitamin injections (meso therapy I think it's called.) Anyway, the give like a hundred shots of this vitamin mix that is supposed to melt fat.
-Join a gym and exercise everyday. At least bike or treadmill 30mins a day.
-Only eat once a day. Preferably a rice and tuna dish.
-Smoke. Yes, a doctor actually suggested to her to take up smoking. A few times a day or only when she felt hungry. And of course do it in private. Behind a building or in the bathroom.
I pleaded with her. "Baby, please don't do this to yourself. This will do more harm than good in the long run. Please don't." Thankfully she took most of my advice. She didn't take up the smoking. I tried to convince her that eating more smaller meals is better than eating once a day because it would keep her metabolism working all day. She didn't listen. She got the vitamin injections and joined a gym. Lost a lot of weight. Once she started eating normally again, it all came back.
I finally got her to eat more smaller meals and the weight was coming off again at a slower, but steady and healthy rate than before.
Anyways, waaaay off topic but just wanted to point out, that if a Doctor (a real MD) was suggesting smoking to lose weight, smoking while preggers can't be that far off.  |
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