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Old Mar 7, 2008, 04:09 am   #77 (permalink) (top)
gela
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It is pointless debating with you. This isn't even a debate - its you ignoring the points that don't suit you, and repeating what you want to believe is true.

You constantly ask for evidence and proof. When it is given to you, you say its a
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Another stat someone invented which was then automatically repeated by everyone else. No evidence of that stat based on sound science. Let's stick with real science and not something like a poltical exit poll of voters, okay?
When 'sound science' is given to you, eg.
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AS FOR SCIENTIFIC PROOF, CIGARETTES CONTAIN MANY KNOWN CARCINOGENS, A FACT YOU CONTINUE TO IGNORE (Caps so you won't ignore it this time). These carcinogens have been proven to cause cancer. These carcinogens cause the mutations that are cancer.
You blatantly ignor them. Then continue to ask for science.


Then, without a scrap of evidence, you go on about conspiracy theories.
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Big oil runs Washington DC and espeically when Republicans gain power there.
Completely ignoring the point I made earlier - that smoking research has been done throughout the entire world, not just your little American world.
I hate to disapoint you, but the oil companies do not have control of the Australian Government. Yet Australian studies still come out with research proving the harm of smoking. Wait, what was that? Countries besides America research diseases? Its shocking I know, but true.
The same can probably be said about hundreds of other countries around the world.
Japan doesn't even have an anti smoking campaign - I see anime characters smoking all the time, being portrayed as 'cool' - yet they still accept that smoking is terrible for your health.

Let me make this very clear for you. There are two completely seperate causes for emphysema.
One is caused geneticaly - it probably appears several times throughout a family tree. It is caused by the absense of a protien that protects your lungs in your genetic make up. It makes up 10% of cases.
90% of cases are caused by the destruction of the protective layer of your lungs through inhaling harmful chemicals.
All of the people who suffer from this strand of emphysema smoke.
They are seperate diseases with identical results. There is no room for theorising.


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