Re: Interstin' Inconsistency

Frenchy wrote: 
Yeah. it's just mob hysteria and junk science goin' down the path of least
resistance. Tobacco has always been a nice easy target and it's always had
this gang a' people who just hate it and, even more interestingly, hated
the users of it, since the first time they saw the unwashed "heathen"
suckin' the smoke out of a hole. All they needed was that first victory
when they finally got it banned from TV advertisin' and they were off and
runnin'. I'm gonna be 60 years old next month and ain't it strange how in
the first 30 years of my life I never heard of one, single person bein'
"allergic" to smoke. Not one in 30 years durin' which I'd been in the
Marines and around the world. Not one person "allergic" to tobacco smoke,
ever. In the second 30 years I've seen hundreds. "Allergy" to smoke has
suddenly afflicted an enormous number of the population. When someone tells
me they're "allgeric" to tobacco smoke I ask if they break out in hives.
No? Do ya' sneeze and have a runny nose? No? How 'bout your throat? Does
your throat swell like if you were allergic to shell fish? Uh-uh? Oh okay
so you ain't really "allergic" ya' just don't like it. If you were really
"allergic" you could take a Benedryl and be fine, even better you'd fall
asleep and the rest of us'd be fine.

YEs yes yes!! Frenchy, you are on the money. Honestly this whole thread is dead-right. I have some more info for you regarding issues with smoking from another smoking list:


courtesy of gkayser30 from a yahoo-list:
information from:www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
Clrd stats on page 72,smoke % on page 64:
"In the real world of real numbers, realpeople, and real deaths;this is what the 2005 report by the National Center for Health Statistics has to say. From 1965 -2002,the % of smokers is down by 47%. From 1980-2002 the death rate from chronic lower repiratory diseases (bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, etc) is up 54%. The cardiovascular death rate for men and women from 1979-2002 is down by a whole 3%. From 1979-2002,asthma alone death rates are up 1.5%. Lung cancer death rates from 1973-2002 are up 27%. From 1979-2002 the Asthma rates for children is up 56%."

Now, we chatted about this before on a previous thread, but the implication is quite simple. The major thing we can say here, is that smoking itself cannot be the main reason for chronic lower respiratory diseases, lung cancer deaths, or asthma rates in children. If it were the major direct link, it would track the changes in smoking rates. What this points to is that there most likely is a much more major reason for these diseases. Yet, what you'd hear on the radio and TV and all over the media, is that SHS is the biggest killer since Genghis Khan. Reality says not so.

I tell ya, if we don't stand up for ourselves, they'll require us to pee sitting down for our own safety...

Hope you're doing well today, Frenchy!

Cheers!
-Allen


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a.s.p. Brother of the Briar
May 2001
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