Re: => Trucking Smokers will just have to Suck It! <=

Marc Schneiderman <garbaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:8ef24414bn8blgdgh2ruddgc2lemdrl4r8@xxxxxxx:

On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:14 -0400, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
<Popeye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The risk of death from cigar smoking approaches that of cigarette smoking


I think the risk of death is still 100%.
CigarBaron

Also note that "approaches" implies that the risk is moving. I'd
sure like to see a study that says that the risk is getting worse.

(Or could it just possibly be that this is another nancy-contrived
fact...just possibly?)

B.


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Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
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