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shakuji
The issue isn't smokers rights. It's the hysteria and totalinarism of the second hand smoke crusders belief in dubios science. It seems evidence is irrelevent to the true beliver.
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shakuji
I cannot deny something I don't know about. I am open to persusion based on the facts. First tell the truth,then give your opinion.Can anyone point to another scientific report other than the Epidimolgy report? I would like to read another if there is one. I've looked but cannot find any other.
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shakuji
As Dennis Prager says: "the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."
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shakuji
You're right.
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shakuji
Stomach cancer is the number one health care costs here in Japan (Soy sauce) and cholesterol in the United States. I’m not defending smokers and I really believe that smokers should follow the rules and smoke in designated areas. It just seems to me reading the posts that it’s just hysteria like the other trends mentioned. The epidemiology report that this idea is based on makes a dubious jump that second hand smoke kills. I know of no other reports that make the claim. Authoritarianism and totalitarianism are different definitions. Personally, I would rather be governed by the first 100 people in a phone book rather than so called “experts.”
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shakuji
Please remember that for many people of the left , being “good” means taking the “right social position” on trendy issues of the day from heterosexual aids, DDT, social justice, reproductive rights, climate change, social justice, etc. It’s just part of the trinity of gender, race, and class taught in university. The social crusaders have murdered more people (Mao and Stalin) in the name of social equality than any other ideology in history. The left is religious in nature and totalitarian in practice. It’s really quite simple to understand. There are many good people on the left with good intentions, they are just misguided. Second hand smoke annoys (maybe kills) and alcohol causes far more damage to society across the board. But it doesn’t matter to the true believer in “social justice.” They are scary.
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shakuji
True belivers.
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shakuji
Sorry for the grammatical mistkes in my quick comment.
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shakuji
According to the epidemiology report that is cited as “proof” of the dangers of second hand smoke, the results (cancer) can show up as long 50-years later. Half of the doctors think cancer is genetically determined. Which is it genetics or second hand smoke? How do they make the leap to indicting all second hand smoke as the cause? I agree that it is annoying and stinks. I just think this totalitarian crusade is says a lot about character. Remember heterosexual aids to banning DDT. The left is a religion.
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shakuji
Quote from Dennis Prager that makes a lot of sense.
"One of life's great little pleasures is tobacco. Just watch old war reportage to see the serenity and joy a cigarette brought to a wounded soldier. Though I do not smoke cigarettes, I have been smoking cigars and pipes since I was in college (my father still smokes cigars daily at age 91), and it would be difficult to overstate how much I enjoy both.
No one opposes educating the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking shortens the lives of up to a third of smokers, often in terrible ways, and that is what public health organizations should be saying. But the battle against smoking and tobacco has become a religious crusade for anti-smoking zealots, who are almost invariably on the Left. If the Left hated Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro as much as it hates "Big Tobacco," the world would be a better place.
But because the Left hates the fact that people smoke (tobacco, not marijuana, which the Left defends) it uses totalitarian (I use that term with no exaggeration) tactics to eliminate it. Just as the Soviets removed Trotsky from old photos, anti-smoking zealots have forced the removal of cigarettes from old photos -- from photos of FDR, from the famous Beatles photo -- and from movies whenever possible. Torture and murder are ubiquitous in films, but smoking is all but banned -- even cigars are now banned from James Bond films.
Smoking has been banned in entire cities, outdoors as well as in. In Pasadena, Calif., one cannot even smoke in a cigar store. That the Left has contempt for Prohibition reveals a lack of self-awareness that is quite remarkable."
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shakuji
Faith begins with self interest. Nothing wrong with that.
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shakuji
Anyone whom has seen some of the coverage here in Japan (CNNI) can see how far left CNN really is. No problem having media on the left, let's just have a medium on the right. Fox news.
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