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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Why? You are claiming that passive smoking kills people. I am not denying that (I haven't seen evidence it kills people, but it is dangerous).
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I actually didn't say it kills people, I said its effects are harmful.
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I am claiming that pollution from cars and other vehicles has killed people. Where's the difference? Both are apparently killing innocents.
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One of the few things Maggy J got right was that cigarettes fall in the same category as chocolate, tea and coffee. A cigarette ban would not make civilization as we know it collapse the same way a ban on cars would, and there are many, many other reasons why the comparison between cigarettes and cars is completely false, if not outright dishonest.
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I am not defending drink driving (as I stated, it *has* killed a lot of people). I merely used it as an example of a reason why smoking is not a unique threat.
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It's all about context, of course, and I think I made mine clear. If not, I have now.
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I also didn't introduce the examples of Tea and Chocolate you appear to take objection to.
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No, it was Maggy J, but it was a correct comparison, so it's not one you should distance yourself from either.