[gela]

Technosoul:

There is scientific evidence, directly linking cigaret smoking to lung cancer, emphasema, and a long list of other illenesses.
This science is called epidemiology.

Alot of time, and money, and effort is spent, by scientists, comparing peoples life styles to their health problems.
These scientists have found, indesputably, that smoking causes lung cancer.
Go ahead and argue with your logic, unfortunatly, you are not a scientist, and you do not have the data that these scientests have, and have used to prove the risks of smoking.
Everyone in the city has an equal chance of getting lung cancer because of the pollution? Wrong. These studies have found that if you smoke, you have a higher chance of dying. Its just that simple. It is science.

The purpose of the lungs is just that, to filter out tar (whatever) so it cannot get into the rest of the body.

Wrong. The purpose of our lungs is to provide a surface for cellular respiration.
They are not, in any way, designed to filter out harmful chemicals. That is why the harmful chemicals stay in our lungs, and slowly destroy the alveoli - causing emphesema.

But the dummy scientists have yet to discover that "link" that I just provided. Because they are motivated by the government to focus on cigarettes only. Because they do not want people to sue a big company for work-related stress that caused them to have cancer.

Yes, the scietists don't know anything, and you know everything.
Apparently every government in the world are focused on cigarettes, because these results arn't only found in America. Also, it is against the governments interests to reduce smoking - they get a shit load of tax off it, and its more consumarism to help the economy.
I have studied how emipidematology works in biology, they look at everything, they have huge huge sample sizes, they found that smoking kills. You have a hunch, and you have the fact that you don't want smoking to be bad for you because it feels good.

They made a lot of statements and listed a bunch of stats. But presented no real evidence or proof based on real science. They never explain in depth how they came up with that mountain of evidence and the reason why is because it is all wild speculation or facts where they leave out the whole truth. For example a cigarette might contain something that is known to be unhealthy if inhaled, but then they forget to tell you that the cigarette contains such a tiny amout of that chemial that it would really have no affect on you. But they make it sound like it would.

A trace amount of a harmful chemical.
Right, so you smoke two packs a day? I've never smoked, so I don't know how many cigarettes are in a pack, but im going to take a guess at 12.
So, multiply that trace amount by 24, then multiply the result by 356, then multiply that number by how ever many years you have been smoking.
Our lungs are not designed as a filter, they have no method of removing chemicals once they are in there. Unless you count wheezing and coughing, which arn't all that effective. My proof? I've ever heard of anyone that could cough up tar.

Now I know by your remarks that you do not mind if other people smoke, but you are a "rare individual" to do that if you also fear that smoking causes cancer. They are going to rope you in someday by telling you that 2nd hand smoke is a health hazard and then you will fear your friends and will bug them to stop smoking in your presense.

Or I could just sit up wind from them..
Im not stupid enough to believe that occaisionaly inhaling a small amount of smoke will kill me. My friends always smoke out side, and they arn't heavy smokers. If I was going to ask them to stop, it would be because I hate the smell, not because of health risks.

Meanwhile I must deal with stupid "sin taxes" which keep going up and with not being able to work at many kinds of jobs, and I cannot go out to eat some food and light one up after dinner. Unless I go stand out in the rain. Ever try to light one up in the rain? Forcing people to stand outside in the snow, rain, fog, is unhealthy for those people. They should make a law to prevent that kind of policy making.

Cigarette smoke gets into the carpet and the funiture and makes it smell. People don't like the immediate smell, and It sets off some asthma reactions. Its perfectly reasonable for businesses to ban smoking on their premises. Unfortunatly, you are a minority - no ones going to be inconvienienced by a minority.