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Originally Posted by joea
What I find amusing is the whole "passive smoke is gonna kill you" thing. The Los Angeles Times did an article a few years ago that stated that the US Government funded a research project to find out the dangers of second hand smoke. The majority of the researchers claimed that second hand smoke caused little if any harm to people,while a minority claimed it was hazordous to others health. The Government went with the minority claims that second hand smoke was harmful,because that's what Congress wanted to hear.
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Were that the same researchers that some years earlier claimed that cigarettes do not cause any addiction at all and that nicotine and the other poisons in it are in very severe doubt to be able to cause cancer?
A scientific study showed that in the past years cogarette companies increased the level of nicotine by around 15%, if I remember the value correctly. The sudy was able to give undoubtly evidence that comanies were lieyng when claiming that this was due to natural fluctuation of a natural product, but was being raised intentionally, artifically.
The newest reseacrh on passive smoking comes from European institutions and is less than one year old. Beyond that, simple logic dictates to reject a statement that when breathing in the stuff a smoker breathes out, this means that the toxic agents meanwhile have dissapeared into nothing. And you still breathe it in hours after the cigarette has been consumed.
for the most, smoking is learned by social examples, and before the age of 18-20. After that age, not even 20% of those who were vulnerable to it will become addicted. The industry must turn young people into addicts before they reach that age, beyond that age, 80% of the potential addicts are lost for them. That is long-known data, btw.
Hayfever for me, too, joea. Let's suffer together . Mind if I spend you a virtual Dalwhinnie, 15 years?