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Craig Nabat President of Freedom Laser Therapy strives to change perceptions about smoking created by a public relation expert of the past.
Los Angeles, CA-April 12, 2005 -- Are smokers of today aware that during World War I cigarettes were considered tasteless and unmanly? Most men preferred cigars, pipes, and chewing tobacco. At the time cigarettes proved to be more convenient in the ...
Dieting Effects – Smoking
So you want to lose weight, but you still refuse to quit smoking. Not a good idea. Too many times we get caught up in taking the easy way out of our troubles. We want to lose weight through crash diets, not develop a healthy lifestyle.Most smokers are ...
Kicking Butts: Forget For A Moment All That Stuff About Cancer--That's Tomorrow. Smoking Can Screw Up Your Workout Today!
Smokers know up to 10 days lower than nonsmokers and ar More susceptible to pulmonary emphysema, bronchitis, strokes, spirit disease and multiple cancers. Merely that's so and this is nowadays, and, goes the blemished thought, wherefore worry ...
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Is it harmful to other people? We have been inundated with statistics which show that passive smoking is harmful. I have one little concern as to how they gather these statistics. Consider how you would go about it? Would you simply rely on people's response to questions? How exactly are causal links established when no proper scientific studies have been carried out..
To determine the effects of passive smoking you would first have to consider all the other air pollutants that people are exposed to in the course of their normal daily lives. Traffic fumes, aerosols, bonfires, pollen, dust, and the list goes on and is very extensive. Smoke from tobacco is just one of the pollutants we are exposed to. Then you take several thousand individuals of similar ages, height, and weight distributed evenly between the sexes. In your first test group you have several hundred of these you expose to all the possible pollutants; the second group are exposed to all bar one; the third group are exposed to all bar a different one and so on. Then you have a second trial in which one group are exposed to all, a second group are exposed to none and then a series of other groups are exposed to only one of the pollutants. You then follow their medical histories over a period of several years.
Impossible to carry out of course so we have to rely on data which has been collected from questionnaires and autopsies and apocryphal stories.
How many people contract lung cancer who have never smoked and never been exposed to smoke? We are never supplied with this figure because that has not been of interest to any of our researchers. In discussions statistics are bandied about as if they are absolute and the definitive truth. When in fact they are simply one persons interpretation of a set of data.. How good that interpretation is depends upon how the data was collected and we are never told that.
I am not suggesting that smoking or passive smoking is not harmful but sitting in traffic jams cannot be too good for you either. I just wish that the health lobby would stop trying to shove their own agenda down my throat all the time because this then gives the politicians an excuse to interfere in our daily lives all the more with laws telling us what we cannot and can do, and quite frankly I am fed up with their constant preaching and interfering. It would seem that it has become a replacement for religion, but instead of hell fire and damnation awaiting a transgressor of fairly basic rules we now have fines and political preaching. I use smoking as one example but there are numerous others such as obesity which could have been used.
About the author:
David Andrew Smith is the owner of http://www.wesparkle.co.uk a cleaning services company which operates throughout the UK
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 Up in smoke: Bars ignore Dutch smoking ban - Washington Post
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A growing number of Dutch bar and cafe owners are slapping ashtrays back on their tables just months after a nationwide smoking ban came into force for bars and restaurants, saying the measure is driving hundreds of small ...
Jail-Induced Sobriety a Quaint Lark, Says Kiefer Sutherland - Defamer.com
Now that our Kiefer is free as a bird and more velvet-voiced than ever, he's opening up about the seven-week jail stint that made shower soap negotiation almost as perilous as saving the free world. Speaking to Men's Vogue , he details the jail's ...
Obama warned off using his BlackBerry - Owen Sound Sun Times
Before he ran for president, Barack Obama quit smoking. Now that he's won the job, he may have to break another addiction: checking his BlackBerry for email. The president's e-mail can be subpoenaed by Congress and courts and may be subject to public ...
Mo. ranks 49th, Ill. 43rd for funding tobacco-prevention programs - St. Louis Business Journal
U of L prof named distinguished scientist Saint Luke’s gets $2.5M for research Drive your own charitable financial vehicle Darrell Green is the new voice of anti-tobacco campaign Santa Fe named fourth healthiest spot in U.S. Missouri ranks 49th in ...
Broccoli May Fight Lung Cancer In Smokers - Pittsburgh Channel
Li Tang of the roswell Park Cancer Institute said that cruciferous vegetables don't eliminate the threat of cancer, but they help. "Broccoli is not a therapeutic drug, but for smokers who believe they cannot quit nor do anything about their risk ...
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