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gizaI was driving into work this morning, and got behind an SUV that had a license plate reading: LOW CARB.
I thought it was kinda cute, until I saw the driver smoking!
Eating a healthy diet ain't gonna help if you smoke like a chimney, dude. The Surgeon General says so.
(For those of you who do smoke, however... you might find this t-shirt amusing.
I thought it was kinda cute, until I saw the driver smoking!
Eating a healthy diet ain't gonna help if you smoke like a chimney, dude. The Surgeon General says so.
(For those of you who do smoke, however... you might find this t-shirt amusing.
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 02:39 pm (UTC)Silly feline. :-)
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 03:55 pm (UTC)If that's stupidity, I'll stay signed up k thx.
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Date: 2004-10-26 04:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 04:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 04:11 pm (UTC)Sorry, my bad.
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Date: 2004-10-26 05:29 pm (UTC)So, yes, it can work when you apply common sense to it, but most people don't.
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Date: 2004-10-26 05:34 pm (UTC)Who wants to live a sour life? ;.;
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Date: 2004-10-26 05:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 08:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 03:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 03:51 pm (UTC)But it was a Pennsylvania plate...
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Date: 2004-10-26 04:39 pm (UTC)No CARB diet:
Cheney
Ashcroft
Rove
Bush
...with the red slash thingy through the names.
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Date: 2004-10-27 12:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-26 05:37 pm (UTC)She's smoking and a guy comes and tells her "You know? Second hand smoke does kill" and she replies "So do I, baby, so walk off"
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Date: 2004-10-26 05:42 pm (UTC)There's a good episode of Bullshit (http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=shs) which debunks the topic.
WTF!
Date: 2004-10-26 06:12 pm (UTC)Are they afraid I'm going to use their web site as a weapon of mass distraction? :)
Smoke hazards.
Date: 2004-10-26 06:12 pm (UTC)I'm filing this one with the "power lines and cell phones cause cancer" studies until it's corroborated. There's ironclad proof that tobacco smoke (and most other forms of smoke, for that matter) are harmful if inhaled in significant quantity. The only question is whether the quantities involved in second-hand smoke are substantial enough to have a statistically significant effect.
This study claims "no", but I'd have to take a hard look at its methods to see exactly what it _studied_. I'm pretty sure that if I'd spent my youth in smoke-filled clubs instead of in front of a computer terminal, my risk of lung cancer would have gone up. Whether it goes up significantly from standing on a bus platform outdoors next to a smoker is more questionable, but claiming that second-hand smoke isn't a problem at _all_ is a very dangerous statement to make.
Re: Smoke hazards.
Date: 2004-10-26 06:18 pm (UTC)I'm kinda polarized about it, but that's because the episode quoted a flawed study done by some group that ended up being used as the basis for a whole bunch of other reports, and those reports have been quoted by the anti-smoking groups as "evidence". Junk science at its finest. :-)
Aaaaand, just to nitpick, *grin*, the status of power lines causing cancer isn't "not corroborated" so much as it is "thoroughly debunked". This article on Quackwatch (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/emf.html) has a good overview of the original flawed study and subsequent studies that disproved the hypothesis.
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Date: 2004-10-26 08:11 pm (UTC)Re: heh-heh
Date: 2004-10-27 12:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-27 02:04 am (UTC)