Re: "Smoking alone is estimated to have caused 21 percent of deaths from cancer worldwide."


"allan tracy" <thunderbird57303@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ....
>> "The nine risk factors were overweight and obesity, low fruit and
>> vegetable intake, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol use, unsafe sex,
>> urban air pollution, indoor smoke from household use of coal and
>> contaminated injections in healthcare settings."
>>
>> http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press11172005.html
>>
>> "In high-income countries, these nine risks caused 760,000 cancer deaths;
>> smoking, alcohol, and overweight and obesity were the most important
>> causes of cancer in these nations.
>>
>
> Yes, but has anyone studied the risks of not smoking or drinking?
>
> For example, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the UK yet has
> anyone considered that this just might be due to everyone giving up
> smoking.

Obesity is caused by not expending what you consume.

> And what about the French and Japanese who refuse to die because
> they're err... well doing lots of fags and alcohol basically.

Do the French and Japanese generally have healthier diets, safer sex, less
pollution and so on?

> The real problem with the US and UK is that the Puritans never went
> away. To them, if it's pleasurable, then it always has to be wrong.
>
> But if it's things like traffic pollution or stress well those are OK
> cos it's nose to the grindstone and all that sort of thing.

No, they are not OK, which is why people work on reducing those as well.


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