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Quoting: Don Knight The loss of limbs, mainly lower is quite common particularly in long-time heavy smokers, I am aware of five or six within the area, and I have several friends who are suffering from emphysema and poor blood circulation, all were/are heavy smokers, so I consider myself very lucky.
After we have had a visit from some-one who smokes, a quick spray of Fabreeze eliminates the odour.
Alright Don, The main causes for limb loss are accident followed by types 1 & 2 diabetes then heart desease & not even the quacks say that smoking is the primary cause for these ailments. Mind you if you believe some of the posts on this thread smoking is to blame for everything from ginger hair to ingrowing toenails & everthing in between.
The one fact we all accept is that smoking is highly addictive, so therefor anyone getting the nebulus second hand smoke should also develope the habit. When was the last time you heard someone say "light up will ya, I’m gasping for a secondry"? whats that you say you’ve never heard anyone saying that? Hmmmmmnnnn strange ain’t it.
Sit someone in an airtight room filled with cigarette smoke for one hour what will you get, runny eyes & a cough. Sit someone in the same room filled with car exhaust & what do you get, a dead body, Sit someone in the same room filled with radon gas & what do you get, several different cancers & angina. I could go on like this all day but I think I have proved my point to those caperable of thinking. Suffice it to say the cigarette smoker is the witch of the 21st century they are being used to take attention away from the real causes of cancer & heart deseases.
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Scouse,
Are you suggesting that there has never been a case of lung cancer caused either by smoking or secondary or third level contamination?
That would appear to be the thrust of your argument.
I don’t think you will find many doctors or consultants will agree with you there.
Cigarette packets, as far as I know, still carry the warning that ’Smoking kills’. If the medical profession is not certain of that then are they not sticking out their collective neck?
Whether or not death certificates actually attribute death to smoking I don’t know - I haven’t seen many such documants but if the person has been a heavy smoker and their lungs are riddled with cancer then is it not a fair assumption that there is a connection?
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Quoting: Don Knight The loss of limbs, mainly lower is quite common particularly in long-time heavy smokers, I am aware of five or six within the area, and I have several friends who are suffering from emphysema and poor blood circulation, all were/are heavy smokers, so I consider myself very lucky.
After we have had a visit from some-one who smokes, a quick spray of Febreze eliminates the odour.
I don’t know whether it’s true or not but it’s been suggested that some air fresheners can cause cancer and various other diseases.
Quote: "The Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested Febreze and found that it had 89 air contaminants, including chemicals that have been linked to cancer and have been shown to be toxic to the brain and nervous system. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) also tested 14 different air fresheners, one of which was Febreze, and also found that they are much more dangerous than advertised. They have a volatile inorganic compound (VOC) called 1,4 dichlorobenzene. VOCs cause groundwater pollution, air and soil pollution and this particular VOC has links to cancer".
Mind.... if I had believed everything the medical profession had told me to do, I would have been six foot under years ago.
Morality is doing what’s right regardless of what you’re told. Obedience is doing what you’re told regardless of what’s right....What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
