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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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 Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| bossface wrote: |
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| bossface wrote: |
| Sure. The U.S., the richest country in the world with under .05% of the world's population, widespread smoking bans, and a relatively low smoking rate also happens to have 1/12 of the world's alleged second hand smoke deaths. Perfectly sensible math there. |
5% of the world's population. 1/20th. Not a stretch considering there are many complex factors involved. |
D'oh. I meant 5%. Stupid math be me too ha.
I still say the rest of my argument is valid. |
America has not always had low rates, or bans, and damage from smoking occurs over a lifetime, so I imagine it is the same with secondhand smoke, so maybe not as valid as you think. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I think we're missing the point here. The article in the OP was about third hand smoke being as dangerous as smoking itself.
"Third hand smoke" is apparently "exposure to surfaces and objects that have been saturated in cigarette smoke".
What is "exposure" in this case? What's "saturated"? I'm sorry, but unless they're talking about sucking on an ashtray, I have a seriously hard time believing that being around an ottoman that belonged to a smoker is as dangerous as smoking yourself. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
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| You think mainstream news networks publish made up fake news? |
Sure, to attract audiences. It's good business, isn't it? Get everybody worried about SARS and mad cow. We're very irrational creatures. We fear things that never happen to us and are extremely unlikely. This makes shocking news appealing. There are many stories in the news published by major sources that are totally full of it. They don't have time to check out things like veracity of claims or whether enough research has been done. That story has got to get out there fast because their competitors in the business are sure putting it out there. If they don't keep up money is lost. They have to make the news interesting to sell it or a bored public will turn to another source for that entertainment. |
One thing that's not happening and you seem to be showing fear of is false news reporting on this issue. Did you see those references? Faking those is kind of hard to sweep under the rug. |
I don't know about the issue. Third hand smoke? Yeah I guess it is not good as the smell can be noticed long afterwards for someone, say, looking to rent a place. I'm not showing fear about it all. I was just responding to that one thing I quoted, namely that major news sources do make stuff up, or rather report things without proof and slant things to sound interesting in self-interest because it is a competition for money. |
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