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To: tejek who wrote (150807)	9/3/2002 2:39:24 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1586096

Why do you think lung cancer and other lung related diseases are on the increase? Because even though the number of smokers has been decreasing for a couple of decades, the people who smoked decades ago are getting lung cancer now. Because people probably starting smoking at a younger age during the last few decades. Because our population is higher. Because people are living longer so they are less likely to die of something else before they get lung cancer. Or do you have statistics that show lung cancer is increasing at a much greater rate then the population increase among young people who have never smoked? the Seaway pollution isn't that bad.......the sky isn't falling. Well you know what, it is. There is a difference between saying "pollution is a problem that needs to be adressed" and saying "the sky is falling". Too often environmentalists say the sky is falling, which lessens there credibility at least with me. Here we are one of the most advanced and wealthiest countries in the world, and we can't keep our major waterways from looking like psspots.* Many of our waterways have gotten a lot better. The Cuyahoga is the most obvious example but it is not the only one. The fact that things are getting better does not mean that more improvement is not needed but it does tend to indicate that the sky is not falling. Any solution that reduces pollution is a good idea........and hang the cost!!!!!!!!!! Illogical nonsense. Do you support exterminating every person on the earth if we can do it in a nonpolluting way? I doubt it so there goes "ANY solution that reduces pollution is a good idea" out the window. Any rational person will consider both the costs and the benefits of any plan. The opinions about the costs and benefits might vary. Your willingness to pay large costs may be greater then mine but the idea of just putting unlimited resources into anything that might have any benefit is just foolish. Even if protecting the environment was your only concern (and that itself would be foolish) putting too many resources in to one attempt means you don't have resources left for other better designed attempts to reduce pollution or protect the environment. We'll take it out of the defense budget!!!!!!!!!! In addition to the fact that there is an important need for at least a lot of that money to be spent, there is the fact that some of the plans would cost more then the defense budget. Tim