Thread: smoking and the pub
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Old 24-05-2007, 19:49   #1397
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by andygrif View Post
Why don't we ban drinking in pubs too whilst we're at it? Oh and bungee jumping too?

Can adults really not make up their own minds whether to go to (or work in) a pub where people smoke?
Perhaps we should let people drive with cellphones in their hands. No need for seatbelts either, or speed limits or MOT tests, can't adults make up their own mind as to what is safe?

Smoking and passive smoking have been shown to cause cancer, not just a casual link just like wearing a seatbelt has been shown to save lives. A government has a responsibility to try and effect that change on a nation.

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Originally Posted by Gavin View Post
It isn't. How many cigarettes give you cancer? Some people smoke 1 a day and get lung cancer at 40, some smoker 40+ and live to they are 90. How is that quantiable?

If its quantifable, then how many cigarettes will give you cancer? How much passive smoking will give you cancer? Noone can possibly say

And whats to say that a smoker who gets lung cancer is directly due to smoking? Smoking is a contributary cause, but its not the only cause. It can be coincidence.
What can be said is there is an almost mathamatically impossible positive corrolation between smoking and lung cancer. That cannot be ignored.

Any statistics bell curve. Your 1 and cancer at 40 and your 40 / 90 are extremes that are statistically discounted from the population. There are exceptions to most rules and generalisations.
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