Mr. Ulrich complains my 91 year-old deceased mother's concept of her
right to smoke is "provocative to me."Wow! Either he has too much
time on his hands or some really serious problems that can't be solved
through a statistics newsgroup. How my dead mother's attitude toward
smoking created
>>>
Actually, the word is "unalienable."
reg
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From: Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: cigs & figs
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Actually, the word is "unalienable."
reg
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From: Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: cigs & figs
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:49:47 GMT, mackeral@remove~this~first~yahoo.com
(J. Williams) wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:37:48 -0400, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
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> >What rights are denied to smokers?
JW >
> Many smokers, including m
"Jackson,P" wrote:
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> The thing is, of course, in the case of the car accident survivors etc, in
> each of those individual cases, we can usually gain some insight into what
> contributed to the survival. It would be very interesting to similarly
> discover the basis of the long lives of the ol
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> -Original Message-
> From: Thom Baguley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 26 June 2001 12:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cigs & figs
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>
> "J. Williams" wrote:
> > She maintained, in spite of the Surgeon General's report and other
"J. Williams" wrote:
> She maintained, in spite of the Surgeon General's report and other
> studies I quoted, that smoking doesn't "cause" cancer or heart
> disease. Her proof was she and her sister (my aunt) both lived to be
> over 90 and were chain smokers. She insisted there are other factors
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - re: some outstandingly confused thinking. Or writing.
>On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:25:31 GMT, mackeral@remove~this~first~yahoo.com
>(J. Williams) wrote:
>[ snip; Slate reference, etcetera ]
>> ... My mother was 9
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:37:48 -0400, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What rights are denied to smokers?
Many smokers, including my late mother, feel being unable to smoke on
a commerical aircraft, sit anywhere in a restaurant, etc. were
violation of her "rights." I don't agree as a no
- re: some outstandingly confused thinking. Or writing.
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:25:31 GMT, mackeral@remove~this~first~yahoo.com
(J. Williams) wrote:
[ snip; Slate reference, etcetera ]
> ... My mother was 91 years
> old when she died a year ago and chain smoked since her college da
On 17 Jun 2001 14:47:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EugeneGall)
wrote:
>On Slate, there is quite a good discussion of the meaning and probabilistic
>basis of the statement that 1 in 3 teen smokers will die of cancer. It is
>written by a math prof and it is one of the most effective lay discussions I
On Slate, there is quite a good discussion of the meaning and probabilistic
basis of the statement that 1 in 3 teen smokers will die of cancer. It is
written by a math prof and it is one of the most effective lay discussions I've
seen of the use of probabilities in describing health risks.
http:
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