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- From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
- Subject: Re: Just a Question
- References: <1993Jan5.174930.1348@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com> <1993Jan5.212124.21005@erenj.com> <1993Jan5.212328.21076@erenj.com> <1993Jan6.004147.18753@netcom.com> <1993Jan6.135302.25885@nynexst.com> <carlp.726351024@frigg>
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- Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:17:42 GMT
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- In article <carlp.726351024@frigg>, carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis) writes:
- >schwartz@nynexst.com (Steven Schwartz) writes:
- >
- >>On the news this morning: Second-hand cigarette smoke has been
- >>"officially" classified as hazardous, in the same category as
- >>asbestos.
- >
- >A political rather than scientific decision, as with ALL other effects
- >of the War on (Some) Drugs. Remember the test strategy for Saccharin?
- >Feed rats the equuivalent of a human drinking mumble-hundred diet
- >colas a day for 30 years, and 10% of them get cancer. Similar with
- >secondhand smoke. While it certainly is annoying, even to me (a
- >smoker), the only likely sufferers of health effects are children of
- >smoking parents or other folks with similar intense, prolonged (years)
- >exposure.
- >
- >Go ahead, flame away - health Nazis give me the retching vomits.
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- You know, I really don't mind people smoke as long as they don't
- exhale it back to the air I need to breath. Would you like me
- eat beans and release gas at your face?
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