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YankeeMan
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I just got back from 5 days in Myrtle Beach and one day in Fayetteville. I asked you all to save me some good weather and you outdid yourselves. We had georgeous weather and I even got to watch a Coastal Carolina v. Michigan baseball game at Pelican Field.
While we were there, I actually got to smoke a cigar indoors at a bar! Twice! I went to the Blarney Stone at Broadway on the Beach and also TBonz restaurant lets you smoke at the bar. Now if only New York State would become so enlightened.
While we were there, I actually got to smoke a cigar indoors at a bar! Twice! I went to the Blarney Stone at Broadway on the Beach and also TBonz restaurant lets you smoke at the bar. Now if only New York State would become so enlightened.
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This is a natural circumstance when politics becomes a popularity contest. I've read most of the WHO and other studies and from a stastic standpoint the numbers are a joke. The "25% increase in rate of cancer" is highly misleading. Going from a probability of 10/10,000,000 to 12/10,000,000 is technically a 25% increase in probability, but realistically there is no change. The above numbers would mean that if everyone in the US was exposed to the amounts of second hand smoke used in the study, there would be an additional 60 cases of cancer per year. Your legislators would save more lives per tax dollar by offering everyone one free physical in their lifetime than doing this.
But, being anti-tobacco gets the votes...
Humans would have had to consume several thousand bottles of diet soda daily with that sweetener in it to get the same amount the test rats got. Unfortunately, just like the smoking bans, they won and it was taken off the market.