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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 08:29 PM Original message |
World Health Organization: Second-Hand Smoke Kills 600,000 A Year |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 10:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 12:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Big tobacco = big money for campaigns. |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wasn't this point made about 20 years ago? What are they wasting |
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DeadEyeDyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Do you really think that is possible? |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 10:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. That doesn't ever work... |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 12:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Is tobacco still subsidized? |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 12:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Virtually everything is subsidized to some extent... |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. Smoking kills. Smokers and others. nt |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-25-10 11:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Except for those who die young, |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 04:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Well, perhaps they were some of the 600,000 per year ... (nt) |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Perhaps some of them breathed your secondhand smoke. |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. As long as cannibis is illegal we don't live in a democracy. |
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nyy1998 (984 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. I know it scares the bleep out of me whenever I have to go through 2nd hand smoke |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 05:14 AM Response to Original message |
14. Wonky study. 1 bill smoke, 5.1 mlll smokers die of it per year ?? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. 'Wonky'? If passive smoking kills as many as traffic accidents, then it's very dangerous |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Wonky! 1 in 200 smokers die of it each year? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 03:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. "Could rise to 8 million by 2030" |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-27-10 05:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Wonky + Wonky |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-27-10 06:26 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. It's not a geometric progression either - because it kills more people later in life |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
16. Will they never stand up to the carmakers and save our lungs? Kills more than 2nd hand smoke |
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askeptic (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. Correlation is not Causation. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 02:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Are you saying that 2nd hand smoke doesn't cause deaths? |
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askeptic (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. questioning the direct causal linkage they claim. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Pretty typical of headline writers, right? |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
20. Smoking kills 10,000 times as many people as... |
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InkAddict (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-26-10 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. Que sera, sera... |
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L.Torsalo (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-27-10 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
28. Alarm!!! |
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