BEWARE the smokers in FRANCE !

In France, 80% of people that go to jail are smokers.
http://hcsp.ensp.fr/hcspi/docspdf/ad...4/ad442125.pdf
So the percentage of smokers among offenders is 80%, so the conditional
probability to go to jail IF I'm smoker is 3,2 times bigger than if I
belong to the polulation in general.
(considering that 25% of the french population smoke and there are 60
000 imprisonments out of 60 millions French people). The percentage of
offenders among smokers is 0,32% (48000 out of 15 millions)
Moreover, we can say that the percentage of offenders among non-smokers
is 0.027% (12000 out of 45 millions)
So, if we choose at random a smoker, we have 12 time more risk to find
an offender that if we choose among non-smokers.

wrote:
In France, 80% of people that go to jail are smokers.
http://hcsp.ensp.fr/hcspi/docspdf/ad...4/ad442125.pdf
So the percentage of smokers among offenders is 80%, so the conditional
probability to go to jail IF I'm smoker is 3,2 times bigger than if I
belong to the polulation in general.
(considering that 25% of the french population smoke and there are 60
000 imprisonments out of 60 millions French people). The percentage of
offenders among smokers is 0,32% (48000 out of 15 millions)
Moreover, we can say that the percentage of offenders among non-smokers
is 0.027% (12000 out of 45 millions)
So, if we choose at random a smoker, we have 12 time more risk to find
an offender that if we choose among non-smokers.

do the French have non smoking cells ?

no, unfortunately they don't ... and it's very difficult to find a
restaurant in this country that has a really non-smoking room, excepted
in the chain "Buffalo Grill", where there is always a non-smoking room.
But when you go to one of these restaurants on saturday evening, the
non-smoking room is often full, whereas there are always places
available in the smoking room !! why ? because non-smokers take refuge
in the Buffalo Grill !

Buffalo grill, la chaîne des viandes avariées ??

a écrit dans le message de news:
...
no, unfortunately they don't ... and it's very difficult to find a
restaurant in this country that has a really non-smoking room, excepted
in the chain "Buffalo Grill", where there is always a non-smoking room.
But when you go to one of these restaurants on saturday evening, the
non-smoking room is often full, whereas there are always places
available in the smoking room !! why ? because non-smokers take refuge
in the Buffalo Grill !

La pollution n'est que dans l'assiette.

Il n'y a pas plus de viande avariee a Buffalo Grill qu'ailleurs.
Seulement, il y a plus de tracabilite. Les Buffalo Grill, c'est comme
les centrales nucleaires francaises, c'est considere comme plus
dangereux parce qu'on en parle plus et qu'il y a plus de controles,
mais en fonctionnement standard, ca ne pollue pas et n'emet pas plus de
radioactivite que le granit. En revanche, aller a Buffalo Grill permet
de preserver sa santé contre ce fleau qu'est la cigarette qui fait en
France 15 fois plus de morts que les accidents de la route.

How do you know it isn't the other way around - that going to jail
encourages people to smoke?

On 10 Jan 2006 11:50:40 -0800, wrote:

In France, 80% of people that go to jail are smokers.
http://hcsp.ensp.fr/hcspi/docspdf/ad...4/ad442125.pdf
So the percentage of smokers among offenders is 80%, so the conditional
probability to go to jail IF I'm smoker is 3,2 times bigger than if I
belong to the polulation in general.
(considering that 25% of the french population smoke and there are 60
000 imprisonments out of 60 millions French people). The percentage of
offenders among smokers is 0,32% (48000 out of 15 millions)
Moreover, we can say that the percentage of offenders among non-smokers
is 0.027% (12000 out of 45 millions)
So, if we choose at random a smoker, we have 12 time more risk to find
an offender that if we choose among non-smokers.