🚀 go-pugleaf

> I'd like to get a RELIABLE statistic
> on how many forest fires are actually caused by irresponsible smokers.

You know, before you go off like that you really ought to get your
information together. Go to the nearest fire station. Or call your local fire
marshall. Ask for a breakdown on the causes of local fires for the last 5
years. 

I'm no gambler, but I bet they have one right at hand, and I bet that smoking
figures in an inordinate number of them, especially if the fire involves an
injury.

> The truth about ETS is that the EPA report that was used by an
> irresponsible
> media and dishonest elements of the medical community to scare simple
> souls 
> like you two into believing that ETS is a proven carcinogen was bogus. 
> Check
> the FAQ on alt.smokers if you don't believe me, and if you think that
> that
> document is propaganda, there's a great article on the scientific lies 
> promulgated in this latest prohibition crusade in, I think, the July 
> '94 issue of Forbes magazine.

Or you could read the report about second-hand smoke in a recent issue of
Consumer Reports. Whoops, that's a consumer-oriented magazine, which makes
them suspect, unlike the FAQ in alt.smokers.

> Anyhow, all the EPA report
> "proved," if you disregard all the scientific transgressions its
> composers 
> committed, that *maybe* 600 people a year die of ETS.  Those people who
> may
> have caught cancer from ETS caught it through decades of consistent
> exposure
> to cigarette smoke.

Oh, well, that makes it alright then.

> All this crap about smokers killing people by walking
> by them, or smoking with their car windows open, is at best, hysterical 
> ramblings spurred on by a dishonest scientific report, and, at worst, 
> deliberate lying on the part of a few raging, frothing idiots who
> skipped
> school when they covered the Prohibition era in American history.  This
> moron,
> whose signature lets you know just what kind of a turd he is, is totally
> unfounded in his assertions, and not really worth all the time I just
> spent
> composing this reply.  It's just that it still galls me that people
> believe
> that ETS has been scientifically established as a carcinogen.

Right. That's why the nationalized Canadian Tobacco Corp. recently justified
smoking as being an activity that saves the country money by keeping people
from living long enough to collect their retirement income and medical
insurance. Anyone who thinks there is anything immoral about selling an
addictive substance that kills its primary users and may do harm to those
around them; anyone who thinks the tobacco companies NEED to entice juveniles
to smoke to expand their market share are frothing idiots. Yes, sir, you hit
the nail right on the head. Or something.

> John Pagano
> jpagano@emerald.tufts.edu
> Forever stronger than all...

Did you have to cheat to get into Tufts?
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