Ravenwood - 01/20/04 06:30 AM
The Washington Post continues their anti-smoking agenda. Take a look at the first two lines of this "news" story.
Martha S. Jones has asthma, so whenever her husband, Bob, lights up at their Woodbridge home, the agreement is that he steps outside.Gee, plagiarize anti-smoking literature much? Or do the tobacco wackos just mail in their propaganda so that the Post can publish it as "news". What's worse, is that they go on to tout some second hand smoke pee test device.She used to think that protected her from exposure to the more than 4,000 chemical compounds found in cigarette smoke, 43 of which are known to cause cancer in humans or animals.
The manufacturer, Nymox Corp. of Maywood, N.J., says the $15 test can be used to measure the secondhand smoke exposure of employees in smoky workplaces and people who live with smokers. One expert says it could be used in child custody cases.Great, scientific legal testimony that costs $15 and fits into your pocket. How many lawsuits and bogus nanny laws is this little device going to spawn? They way they hawk it, I wonder if the Post owns stock in the damned thing. They stopped short of saying "call now, while supplies last". Oh, wait. Here it is on page two.
It is being sold by Drugstore.com and CVS.com...The Post goes on to claim, "Secondhand smoke is well established by scientists as a cause of disease in nonsmokers." 'Well established' in the same way that 'global warming' is a scientific fact. Nowhere in their sales pitch did they mention that despite the best efforts of the CDC and WHO, scientists have been unable to find a conclusive link between second hand smoke and cancer.
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There's a scientific link between anything and anything else. All it takes is enough scientists. If you want 99% confidence, it takes 100 scientists. 99.9% takes 1000. It's not rocket science.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at January 20, 2004 7:52 AMNow, just how does having a test make it more convincing that it does harm? A sundial tests whether the sun is shining, does that mean the sun is a bad thing?
"She used to think that protected her from exposure to the more than 4,000 chemical compounds found in cigarette smoke, 43 of which are known to cause cancer in humans or animals."
Can't the same be said of, say, potatoes? In fact, potato greens are deadly poison! Ban potatoes! For many years, people believed tomatoes were poisonous. Breathing a pure oxygen atmosphere will kill you. Drinking too much water kills, even if you don't inhale it.
Now, quoting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seems to lend it weight - but even they admit there is no proof at all, just "well, the parents smoke, and the kid died" evidence. Wonder if the parents drank water? Did their exhalations saturate the air?
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