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To: TimF who wrote (12291)1/11/2006 4:50:16 PM
From: country bob  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 89628
 
Honestly, Tim, I don't think any rational person can believe that second hand smoke is as bad as the air you breathe walking down the street in any metropolitan area, but it does make agreat rallying cry for the anti-smokers. It also takes a lot of the heat off urban industry. That's neither here nor there! I just wish the government would have cracked down on smoking 50 years ago when they found out all this stuff that they're informing the public about now, because I wouldn't have started smoking. The problem is, with no place else to make up the lost tax revenue, the country would have gone broke.



To: TimF who wrote (12291)1/11/2006 9:07:01 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 89628
 
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It stand an excellent chance of affecting whether an employer offers health insurance except possibly as a perk to managers and executives. And that affects most people. The likelihood of serious chronic illness as a redult of obesity is higher than with smoking. Eventually almost all obese persons will develop problems related to their obesity; only a fraction of smokers will.


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