any form of smoking is bad for you..... period, it doesnt take a genius to figure that out, i think its funny they had to waste time to make a "study" for this,

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Follow the money.

Needless to say, just like the global warming freaks this is utter crap cooked up by somebody trying to justify their research grant.

the GOP is just finding ways to give us news

Bull, bunk and poppycock. You could have a bowel movement, mail it to the New England Journal of Medicine, and they would publish it, as long as I told them it proves smoking is bad for someone. Why don't they ever publish papers like "Jogging through Los Angeles, is worse than smoking three packs of filterless igarettes per day." "Working in a toll booth is worse than smoking two cartons a week". They won't, because theres no money to be made.

Ah i must quit smoking. I have been holding it off for too long.

Ridiculous. Not too long ago my daughter came home from school and was telling me that her teacher was telling this at school. She was telling the kids that if their parents smoked that they were in a way, killing other people.

Here's my view:
I'll be 34 years old this month. I started smoking when I was 12. I smoke about a pack a day, some days maybe a pack and a half.
I don't have that "dreaded smokers cough" people always refer to.
I don't choke and cough up black nasty things or burnt lung tissue like I have heard it called.
I don't have trouble breathing.
I can still play sports, run 3 miles on a treadmill, help coach my daughters softball team.
I don't have nicotine fits or suffer from withdawls if I don't have a cigarette.
I don't turn in to a big meanie-head if I don't have a cigarette.
My family:
My mother smoked when she was pregnant with all four of her children. We were all born heathy and none of us suffer from any from of illness.
Out of the 4, I am the only one that smokes.
My grandparents, all 4 of them, lived well in to their 80's, and all 4 of them smoked non-filter cigarettes all their lives. Even when pregnant.
No one in my family has any illness from smoking. No asthma, no lung cancer, no emphasyma (sp?),no heart disease, or anything else.

Now I'm not claiming that smoking is not bad for you. I just don't think i's as bad for you as some people claim.

Big tobacco companies work with the government to raise taxes on their products. Why? To make more money. The know that most people can't or won't quit smoking. And for those that do want to quit? The tobacco companies offer stop smoking programs. Gums, Patches, Hypnosis, Throat Sprays, Presription Medicines, Mints, Therapy Programs, etc. All of it cost money. MOST of it cost more money than the cigarettes themselves. Plus, they all have a high failure rate. They're not meant to work, they're meant to fail so you'll keep spending money on them or go back to smoking. It's all a sham.

Pack of Smokes: $5
Pack of Stop Smoking Gum: $45

They sell you a product. Tell you it's bad. Sell you the anecdote that they know doesn't work. They send you money saving coupons to buy more cigarettes.

Originally posted by dashen
Bull, bunk and poppycock. You could have a bowel movement, mail it to the New England Journal of Medicine, and they would publish it, as long as I told them it proves smoking is bad for someone. Why don't they ever publish papers like "Jogging through Los Angeles, is worse than smoking three packs of filterless igarettes per day." "Working in a toll booth is worse than smoking two cartons a week". They won't, because theres no money to be made.

I speak from personal expirence and can assure you that 3rd hand smoke can indeed be harmfull (well in large amounts anyway).My family owned a bungalow with a tenant that came with the property when my father bought it at auction(sitting tenant on a protected lease) she was in her late sixties when we got it and was a very very heavy smoker.The house stunk of smoke.Any way she did cut down smoking but still smoked right up to her death aged 79 which was natural and non smoking related( unbelievably).When we went in to do a re-furb I was amazed at how yellow everything in the house was especially doors and ceilings.The ceiling in the lounge was completely yellow. It was my job to decorate and I knew the nicotine would bleed through any paint I applied so decided to clean using sugar soap.Wow that stuff sure works but when cleaning the ceiling the horrible yellow nicotine that had built up from over 40 years of puffing was now running down my arms.Very soon my hands and arms became very red and sore and lasted for at least a couple of days.A direct result of the nicotine's poison on my skin. I abandoned the nicotine cleaning(which i had nearly finished) and had no other choice than to use white undercoat to paint over the ceilings which did stop the nicotine coming through and emulsion over that. So Sir not all Bull, bunk and poppycock .

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poison chemical residue is bad?? Some one give these scientist a metal. I collect my tabaco pipe residue and rub it on people for giggle.s

1 question for now.

The radioactive contamination on tobacco for decades.

Question: how many of the countless of studies done took into account this radioactivity in their results?

A multitude of radioactive isotopes were found in tobacco.

Includes for example uranium, thorium, strontium, radon, lead.

EPA's public ruling is that for one, radon is a confirmed cause of lung cancer.

See what I mean?

Glaring confounding factors seemingly ignored.

Note: I'm not talking about the analysis identifying the isotopes. But the mostly cited, actual medical studies used to reach the current consensus.

This is ridiculous, I still haven`t seen conclusive proof that first hand smoking is bad for you. In fact, people who smoke less then 5 cigarettes a day have a benefit from it ! Because the tobacco smoke and tar it contains lays a thin layer on the inside of your lungs preventing other pollution and microcrobes to enter your blood stream.

And another thing, didn`t our early ancestors discovered fire and didn`t they use it to heat themselves with campfires in and outside of caves and dwellings ? If it were all so bad for you, how come we made it this far ?

I`m sick of this kind of news, everyone should tolerate as much as humanly possible, until someone brings in the smoker. I`ll smoke as long as I can, even if it`s the last thing I do :-)

yeah, I agree with most people here. I am not a smoker, but here are my thoughts on it:

Everything in Moderation: don't smoke 5 packs a day. One cigarette every once in a while would be fine. The body can handle a lot of stuff thrown at it.

There are much worse pollutants out there in the world. Also, like I said, the human body can handle mild amounts of discomfort.

I think I make sense, tell me if I don't.