Man Sues Neighbor over Secondhand Nothing
First it was ETS. Now it’s EMS.<br />
Smoking linked to back pain
No, we are not kidding.<br />
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This remarkable piece of junk science comes courtesy of The American Journal of Medicine.<br type="_moz" />
Anti Tobacco Attack "Medical Smokers"
Public health officials in Milan, Italy, have called for urgent steps to reduce the number of health care professionals who smoke after a survey found that 44% of new medical students were current smokers. The urgency was stated because high levels of smoking among health care professionals undermines the credibility of anti smoking campaigns.<br />
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Absolutely right it does! <br />
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It actually tells us that the medical students are fully aware of dose response relationships, statistical correlations and health scare junk science. A smoking rate twice as high as the general population also tells us that anti smoking propaganda doesn’t work on people who are educated in the subject.<br type="_moz" />
Stanton Glantz: Nuclear Movie Critic
A character in James Cameron’s PG-13 blockbuster "Avatar" smokes. Anti-smoking activists claim they want to protect children from portrayals of smoking in movies. Don’t be fooled. <br />
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As Robert Prasker explains, anti-smoking isn’t likely to draw the line at only censoring films marketed to children. <br type="_moz" />
Do not smoke the 15th cigarette
"<b>A small-cell lung cancer genome with complex signatures of tobacco exposure</b>" is the title of a study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, published online by <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08629.html">nature </a> on 16 December 2009. <br />
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It sounds like Sherlock Holmes finding the fingerprints of the murderer.<br type="_moz" />
Quitting Smoking Causes Diabetes
A research published in the US this week found that <b>QUITTING</b> smoking resulted in a <b>70% increased risk </b>of developing Type 2 diabetes.<br />
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Junk science is junk science whichever way it points. The stark contrast here is that you won’t be seeing this particular information broadcast as a public health message on the front page of your national newspapers, Government TV adverts or billboard posters.<br />
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Vive La France
Throughout the developed world we are told that smoking bans are popular yet anywhere that choice is tolerated in any form we see that statement for the pure propaganda that it is.<br type="_moz" />
Back To Alcohol
Despite the fact that problems associated with alcohol are no worse than they have ever been since China started drinking some 5000 years ago, the modern healthist despots would have us believe that there is an "epidemic" of binge drinking and drink related problems that needs controlling. Here we see again the key word of modern politics – "CONTROL".<br type="_moz" />
Grilled ASH
In 1990 the UK Government Select Committee on Environment held an enquiry into the alleged dangers of passive smoke. Anti smoking group ASH UK attempted to solicit private meetings with the committee members prior to the hearing and also suggested, in a letter to committee members, questions that should be asked that were designed to discredit their opposition.<br type="_moz" />
Smoking is Cool
<font face="Arial" size="2">Think what you may about Lindsay Lohan. But get one thing straight – smoking is cool. It’s always been cool. Today it’s cool. Tomorrow it will be cool too. Enjoy this short video, which intertwines fine photography, an erotic theme and above all smoking. <br />
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Smoking is cool, really cool.</font>