Smoking ban has dramatically slashed number of heart attacks

On Jun 9, 9:14*pm, "Simon S-B" wrote:
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On 9 June, 13:36, "Simon S-B" wrote:
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On 9 June, 12:39, "Simon S-B" wrote:
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On 9 June, 07:59, "Simon S-B" wrote:
Just because we can live longer, should we? Been to a nursing home
lately?
Think they have a wonderful quality of life? Reckon the economy and
the
planet in general really needs people living to be 110?

But cigarettes don't merely reduce your life expectancy. They reduce
the number of years you can expect to live in good health.

And being fat and drinking doesn't? No doubt you'll argue 'but me
drinking
only hurts me, not anyone else'. Do I really need to be getting stats
on
the
causes of crime, and showing where alcohol comes in the list? Have you
ever
tried sitting on a long haul flight next to a fat *******? Why should
you
only get half a seat because they have a pie addiction? I'm not
against
the
smoking ban, but those that want to look down their noses at smokers
can
**** right off unless they don't drink and are an acceptable weight..

I'm sorry if you interpreted my post as me looking down my nose at

It's what smokers have to deal with everywhere they go.

I know it is and it shouldn't be. The best person to judge whether the
pleasure you derive from smoking is worth the health risk is yourself.
The only thing I'm questioning is the assumption you appear to be
making that should you die prematurely the years you are missing out
on will be the unhealthy ones. Sorry for being so morbid but If cancer
kills you at 50 instead of cancer killing you at 90 you haven't lost
unhealthy years. As for your grandmother you have my sympathies. I
don't know what the legal status is regarding inciting crimes so I
won't mention the e word.

Cancer can kill anyone at 50, not just the smokers. Yes you increase your
chances if you smoke, but then sticking to the source of the original post
so do all these things.

http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/0...ngs-the-daily-...

Are you going to be happy if the government bans this NG, wine, oral sex,
your mobile, chocolate etc etc because you might miss out on a few years if
you aren't? We all perform risk-assessments a number of times each day. I
don't like having mine performed for me, especially when the reasons for
doing so apply to a very large number of things that have not been selected
by the government to be 'bad', and they've not spent millions of pounds on
social-engineering peoples opinions about them, so that the pious ****ers
can look down their noses at the rest of us.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10655652

On Jun 9, 8:14*pm, "Simon S-B" wrote:
"My two cents" wrote in ...

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I know it is and it shouldn't be. The best person to judge whether the
pleasure you derive from smoking is worth the health risk is yourself.
The only thing I'm questioning is the assumption you appear to be
making that should you die prematurely the years you are missing out
on will be the unhealthy ones. Sorry for being so morbid but If cancer
kills you at 50 instead of cancer killing you at 90 you haven't lost
unhealthy years. As for your grandmother you have my sympathies. I
don't know what the legal status is regarding inciting crimes so I
won't mention the e word.

Cancer can kill anyone at 50, not just the smokers. Yes you increase your
chances if you smoke, but then sticking to the source of the original post
so do all these things.

http://www.thedailydust.co.uk/2009/0...ngs-the-daily-...

Smoking, in a relative sense, is a massive health risk. You either
choose to inflict that health risk on yourself or not, but trying to
justify it by citing other unhealthy activities isn't an argument,
it's an excuse.

Are you going to be happy if the government bans this NG, wine, oral sex,
your mobile, chocolate etc etc because you might miss out on a few years if
you aren't?

Government hasn't banned smoking.

We all perform risk-assessments a number of times each day. I
don't like having mine performed for me

It's not, you're free to smoke.

On Jun 27, 4:46Â*pm, BP killed my turtle
wrote:
On Jun 9, 10:10Â*am, Maria wrote:


â–* About 1 in 8 boys and 1 in 10 girls have a long-term respiratory
disease.


Which would include asthma; more likely, be comprised in a large part
of diagnosed asthma.

Asthma has had a few boom decades in the first world, yet this has
largely coincided with a continuing drop in smoking rates.


CP