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ScooterTrash -> RE: Second hand smoke (7/25/2006 4:56:49 PM)
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Wow..what a serious case of mass happy bullshit. This is a bit out of character for me, but I am going on a rampant rant because I am simply tired of hearing this crap!
For the anti-s who keep stating the term "facts", sorry to say, but your information is just as erroneous and staged as anything else you read. The surgeon general's latest smoke and mirrors (no pun intended) scam has already been unraveled as well. http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3394
http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2327
There is no evidence that second hand smoking does a damned thing except maybe make your clothes smell bad (to you, not me). All of the exaggerated claims, most notably the ones that state that some nasty ass medical condition will happen within minutes of being around a smoker are quite simply, big lies. The biggest liars are in "fact" the antismoking organizations, there is your "fact". In the absence of legitimate information, they simply make up, or exaggerate any medical findings they can find. If you want links, I can provide literally hundreds, just ask. If you always believe what you read, bear in mind that a lot of the information you are reading is brought to you by the same administration that is bringing you the Iraq War, based on the pretence of eliminating the invisible weapons of mass destruction.
I smoke because I want to. I don’t try to quit, because I like to smoke. I won’t try to compare it to any other unhealthy practice…everything is unhealthy in one way or another. I don't say it's healthy or unhealthy. I don’t purposely blow smoke in someone’s face, although I would a few on here to maybe wake them up, but then again I don’t feel pity for anyone to the extent that I will give up my right to do as I please. If you don’t like smoke in a restaurant, don’t go in, but don’t tell me or the restaurant owner that there has to be segregation or banning. If I come upon a restaurant that does not allow smoking, I leave, I will not eat there…it works both ways people, if you don’t like it, exercise your right to turn tail and go somewhere else. My honest attitude is if you want fresh air, go outside. Making the smokers go outside is about as backwards of a gesture as I have ever seen. As for asthma…what a hoot. Most, and I’m really thinking all, the people I have known that have asthma smoke. I find it ludicrous to even suggest that second hand smoke caused it and I don’t know any that are blaming an attack on it. Fix your own genetics, that’s a more likely cause and a lot more plausible than trying to blame it on something else. Even if it's trigger for some, it certainly didn't cause it. Someone else mentioned that genetics is a cause for cancer, which is reasonably correct. If you have a family that has cancer running in it, I don’t know how to politely tell you this, but you can avoid tobacco or anything else you want, all you want, but you are likely going to die of cancer. If you happen to have a clean genetic trail, well then do what you want because your risk is minimal at best. As for its effect on the poor innocent little lungs of the youngins. Perhaps your memories are rusty, but youngins will do things 100 times worse to themselves before reaching adulthood than a wisp of smoke will. I grew up around smokers and have no ill effects and have outlived many a poor soul that I watched have dirt thrown on their casket.
This whole secondhand smoke masquerade is just like religion, it’s a belief, so believe what you want, because there are no facts to back you up either way! By the same token, don’t push your beliefs on me and try to restrict my behavior to conform…cornered even the most passive life form will strike back.
In other words, for the very verbal anti-smokers who are talking bullshit, don’t try to blow smoke up my ass….just kindly blow it out yours (and I bet I won’t suffer any ill effects), because you being all noble and trying to save the world is just pissing a bunch of us off.
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