Please don't smoke... - by Strangeblue
quinch on 12/7/2006 at 15:31
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
And if you're a non-smoker and the only job you can get is in a smoking bar or restaurant, then I guess it's tough titties, right?
they can learn to fucking type.
(levity too plz)
Deep Qantas on 12/7/2006 at 17:08
Quote Posted by Nicker
Smoking kills over three-hundred and fifty-thousand people a year in the USA. More than two 9/11's a week. That's got to be worth ‘whining' about.
Non-smoking kills over 2 million people per year in the USA.
(Or more than a dozen 9/11's per week if you want to use that as a yardstick)
Nicker on 12/7/2006 at 18:55
Quote Posted by Deep Qantas
Non-smoking kills over 2 million people per year in the USA.
(Or more than a dozen 9/11's per week if you want to use that as a yardstick)
A better yardstick would be for you to explain how non-smoking CAUSES 2 million deaths. Or did you mean that 2 million non-smokers die each year? That would be a very different thing.
Agent Monkeysee on 12/7/2006 at 19:12
I thoroughly enjoy this trend of measuring disasters and major mortality stats in "9/11s" and think it should be extended as a general "calamity index". Like "I got cut off in traffic today and then had a leak in my roof. It was about .02 9/11s on the calamity scale."
Kyloe on 12/7/2006 at 19:54
My father used to say, "Here are my two 911s*," meaning my brother and I.
* The Porsches
Deep Qantas on 12/7/2006 at 22:21
Quote Posted by Nicker
A better yardstick would be for you to explain how non-smoking CAUSES 2 million deaths.
It just takes some time.
Nicker on 13/7/2006 at 04:33
Quote Posted by Deep Qantas
It just takes some time.
Somehow I knew a viable answer wouldn't be forthcoming.
Ko0K on 13/7/2006 at 05:28
I have nothing against your views, by the way. I just wanted to pass along a more official mortality report that isn't compiled by a handful of private individuals with an unclear agenda.
(
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html) CDC's searchable database
Then again, I'm not necessarily saying that an "official" report is any better or worse. While "liver disease" and "chronic low respiratory disease" are listed for some age groups, tobacco or alcohol are not directly listed as mortality causes anywhere in that report.
TheGreatGodPan on 13/7/2006 at 06:19
(
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3729503a4560,00.html) This article isn't too serious, but it seems the all-smoking airline might actually...I was about to make a horrible pun
take off but I won't.
Stronts, it's tough titties for everyone. It's up to each person to make the best of the aforesaid titties, as the botched surgery on them performed by the state inevitably causes them to be painful, diseased, unbalanced and unsightly. I'm not sure how much further the metaphor can be extended, but that's the gist of it.
ercles on 13/7/2006 at 06:50
If you really want to bring up the case of drink driving compared to smoking, although it has already been thoroughly debunked, consider the amount of campaigning going on. In my occasional trips to Canada (I live in Australia) I have noticed that american tv networks feature quite a lot of anti-drink driving ads, such as the M.A.D.D. ones, just as there is a lot of campaigning going on against drink driving in Australia. It recieves far more attention than smoking, and is frowned upon far more, so I don't really see your point...
Plus the reason that they have car parks at pubs is because it is possible (shock horror) to go to a pub, have a quiet drink or two, and go home. In fact, it is (over here at least) the legal responsability of a licensed premasis to get you home safe if you are intoxicated, because it was pretty much illegal to get you drunk in the first place.
