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  • why do you?

    OK, I give up: why do you focus on the least important cause of cancer?The most important cause of cancer is the number one cause of cancer death, accounting for 30% of all cancer death, and it turns out to be 100% preventable. And you never even mention it. I give up: why is your focus so far off? Especially in an essay where you charge ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by jpk on April 16, 2008

  • The safest place to let people smoke is ... home?

    William Saletan was doing well, until the very end. Adda & Cornaglia are currently working on a paper on passive smoking on non-smokers (older versions available online) which note that ban on smoking in recreational areas lead to a significant increase in exposure to children under twelve in homes with a smoker present. Therefore, taking ...
    Posted to Human Nature by darrenshiloh on April 4, 2008

  • The Smoking fight

    The ''relentless'' attack on smoking is nothing but a focus on something good to hate. Just imagine what these so called smoking Nazis would do if their focus were somewhere else. Maybe if they were to use as much effort to stop littering or pollution we might have a cleaner place to live in. Instead they attack the smoker. They push the smoker ...
    Posted to Human Nature by dennisski on August 27, 2007

  • War on Smoking

    Feel free to disagree with me, but I feel that the country is sliding, very quickly, into a man-made safety net. Germ-phobia, politcally correctness, spanking, smoking, drugs, drinking, I think this is all going a bit too far! For thousands of years, our ancestors have lived with germs, smoked tobacco or other herbs and spices, made alcohol and ...
    Posted to Human Nature by melenajade on August 27, 2007

  • jihad against tobacco

    The jihad against tobacco is nothing more than an excellent model of how a well organized group of political zelots can impose their will on a majority people in society. They are adept at utilizing the socialist liberal media and the far left political power to eploit their meaningless ''Do Gooder'' agenda. They have a larger than life group of ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Paul Arrowood on August 27, 2007

  • Second-Hand Smoke

    Few Points from a nurse of 8 years: In my 8 year tenure as a nurse, we have never had one patient treated, died etc. from second-hand smoke. People ARE NOT allergic to smoke. An allergic reaction is what happens when you touch poison oak. Sneezing is not an allergic reaction. Our eyes water and sting when we slice onions. It would be ...
    Posted to Human Nature by djjamz34 on August 27, 2007

  • Nicotrol Inhalers

    The government is criminal for not allowing over the counter sales of Nicotrol Inhalers. They produce no smoke nor tar and only minimal nicotine which goes to the smoker alone, no one else. It is the only way I was able to quit a four pack a day habit. It annoys no one, my lungs are now clear and the house doesn't smell. Yet I still have to go ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Darrell Bain on August 27, 2007

  • Physician, heal thyself

    As many know, freedom is never ''free'', nor is democracy always ''democratic.'' Those who are fearful of the negative attention being paid to the current villains of the day (tobacco companies) need to only wait until the next ''bad boy'' comes along. Sometimes we need to lighten up (no pun intended). On the other hand, I have no sympathy for ...
    Posted to Human Nature by naturegirl on August 21, 2007

  • Tobacco Myopia Internationally

    International comparisons, such as with the South Korean President’s position, needs consideration in a different context. Not completely sure about South Korea. However, in Japan extremely few Japanese people drive and drink -- including college students -- mainly because of severe anti-drinking laws while driving and their fear of the ...
    Posted to Human Nature by japan_reader on August 17, 2007

  • My conclusion.

    It sounds like the cancer rates really are dramatically lower, and there really is very little spit involved. Even the oral cancer rates drop down to near baserate levels (lazily averaging studies here), and the pancreatic cancer rates, as noted by someone above, are over-stated*. I do note, however, that the Swedes really are making a concerted ...
    Posted to Human Nature by TenaciousK on June 12, 2007
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