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From: "mcs" <mcs@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.med.diseases.cancer
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: Pollution and those in society that ignore its harm


> there are more or less two people in society .those who have been 
> extremely
> harmed by pollution often were not told and those that got clean air most 
> of
> their life. The people who got much more polluted air then clean air, its 
> my
> contention have in general less healthy lives often based on the 
> percentage
> of pollution and how often they received it. . They will never be
> compensated.. They will have less productive lives and pay more costs for
> health care.  Plus there are those in media and science who refuse to warn
> those people who get polluted air of the harm or potential harm in a way
> that is effective.. US society is not about doing the right thing many
> times, Cancer Walks shows these same associations better then other things
>
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>
> To assume people walk for a cure while not possibly realizing or caring 
> they
> are doing more harm possibly by taking long walks and living in polluted 
> air
> , is a very important idea to try to project. Maybe they don't need to 
> give
> medical centers more money , because I can't think of a single drug that
> will reverse asthma or probably other cancers once they get it from 
> environment. Since Philly
> has more respiratory disease , cancer, asthma, and depression and murders
> then most cities perhaps its more important to relate some of those things
> to quality of air. Simply put existing in air that keeps getting fewer and
> fewer days of good quality might be the precipitators that cause cancers 
> at
> least if comparisons were had. Walking for a cure for something that is
> lifestyle issue might be a total waste of time. Many people think some
> cancers is the outcome from flawed lifestyle issues and not understanding
> how to maintain good health. With air pollution, many people had no 
> choices
> and since cancer centers and media don't want to provide data showing harm
> based on different cities environment , giving them money for some drug
> after they are poisoned instead of getting themselves out of harms way is 
> at
> least like running in place . Many people will not know they died for 
> energy
> companies and coal and levels of polluntants in air and maybe and perhaps
> nothing else. Maybe AT LEAST some of their energy would have been better
> spent trying to determine how much of their life was poisoned because of
> polluted air or getting out of harms way then seeking a miracle cure after
> they are poisoned. Some of the people who walk for a cure need to do 
> better
> research why they got cancer and if it happens more in areas that get so 
> few
> days of clean air like Philadelphia , compared to areas that get clean air
> ( BINGO , HELLO?)maybe its better to assume they get politicians to change
> their conditions in which they live and not hope for a miracle drug they
> haven't found yet sometimes.!!! Their energy should be spent trying to at
> least determine cause and affect even if they are not hand spooned the
> answers from the media. These people assume the medical community cares so
> much about them> ! The media is so enthusiastic in providing help to fund
> these walks while they profit from commercials they sell to the same 
> people
> ( not by accident) while ignoring the dangers that need the meds they
> promote... (pollution and cancer and illlness in which they live). I care
> ten times more in a real way then most of those cancer centers do, because
> they give these people false hope and refuse to tell these people who 
> might
> get cancers in the future to get out of harms way because there is 
> evidence
> these cancers might be lifestyle issues like from the environment , 
> instead
> of needing to walk for a miracle drug...The media and hospitals that get
> paid to sell drugs and services to people who get sick, need to tell 
> people
> honestly how to avoid the condtions that precipitate illness instead of
> giving them false hopes. If they live in an environment like mine which 
> has
> 39 days of clean air out of 150 how to get out of harms way, Or show
> comparatative data of disease correlated to environment and exact amount 
> of
> pollutants. People are being poisoned and its getting worse. More has to 
> be
> done immediately to save people from cancers and asthma and respiratory
> diseases brought on by bad envionment not for cancer walks .. This is the
> biggest conspiracy to keep people uninformed and dumbed down I have ever
> seen in my life. Some city website here for example they said there were 
> 200
> days of good air in my city.. last year.. the biggest lie or way to hide 
> the
> real numbers I have ever heard in my life. I lived thru it and tracked it
> and lies like that cause people to lose their life instead of warning 
> people
> how to get out of air that never reached close to the 200 days they talked
> out unless they left out a major componet of polluted air and didn't tell
> people that to get those stats. More and more I see society based on not
> doing the right thing to protect polluters ,, the most unbelivable things 
> I
> have ever witnessed. We have two or three societies.. One that lives most 
> of
> their life in clean air and one that doesn't and one that gets half and
> half. In addition we have people who have made a conscious decision to not
> tell people of the potential harm they are living in . To me knowing the
> dangers and refusing to inform is what some in media now believe is worthy
> of a profession. To me they are getting paid on the backs of peoples lost 
> health without informing why and instead of helping people digest 
> alternatives, rather sell meds thus prolonging their agony.. A good
> society should be to live more honest productive lives brought on because
> society cares about them, not to make a profit because they exist.
> I now know why people are doing the wrong things more and more. Its 
> because
> they mimick their role models.
>
> thru it all there are some good people who are trying to promote real 
> links
> to the studies that show cause and affect from pollution.
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