----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 2:36 AM Subject: Re: Scouted: Environmentalism is Evil and Must Be Destroyed
> At 04:43 AM 12/20/03, Deborah Harrell wrote: > >--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Maybe second-hand smoke isn't as dangerous as > > > professed, but I am sure as > > > hell happy I don't have to breathe it anymore. > > > >Anecdotaly, I got bronchitis *every time* I was > >exposed to 2nd-hand tobacco smoke for more than 3 > >hours straight (as at a bar, or driving in a car with > >a smoker -- I avoid such exposure religiously now). > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > Pun intended? > > It takes a lot less time than that for me to become ill from it. Even > being in a room where people have been smoking can do it. > *Note: Not a defense of smoking* [You may now return to the discussion which is already in progress] Do any of you who get "ill" (Not sarcastic quote marks, I use them to mark the difference between actual sickness and the kind of illness I am positing) around tobacco smoke get ill around other types of smoke? How about on the freeway or on downtown streets? If not, I suggest that this kind of "illness" might be for the most part psychosomatic. You never used to hear people, with any regularity, make these claims before, say, 1980 (date pulled out of hat). I had bronchitis as a child and smoke *never* caused an attack with me the way it did with a kid down the street who had asthma. (For me it was always cold air in the evening) When I was a kid almost all the adults I knew smoked (indeed, smoking was much more prevalent in those days) yet the health problems associated with tobacco smoke are on the rise. It makes me wonder if Tobacco is only a secondary causative. * When someone says smoke makes them "ill", I assume it is the same kind of "ill" one might feel after eating maggots, grubs, or termites. Bugs that are nutritious and by some accounts tasty, yet to westerners they are yuck yuck yuck. Now I'm not suggesting that everyone should suddenly begin to enjoy the smell of tobacco smoke, but I am suggesting that there is an element of psychology in the anti-smoking campaign that exaggerates the negative effects of tobacco in the minds of many. * This has been on my mind lately because I have begun to notice smokers who complain about *other peoples smoke*. The irony is perverse to me. xponent The Power Of Memes Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
