On 13 Apr, 19:46, "Uno-Hoo!" wrote:
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> > "Sofa - Spud" wrote in message
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> >> On 13 Apr, 17:20, "Uno-Hoo!" wrote:
> >> > "solar penguin" wrote in message
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> >> > > On 10 Apr, 16:57, Phil Stovell wrote:
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> >> > >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:49:52 -0700, solar penguin wrote:
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> >> > >> > Because how else are we ever going to totally ban smoking
> > everywhere?
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> >> > >> It'll work as well as the other drug prohibitions, that is, not at
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> >> > > Look on the bright side. At least they've _tried_ to ban other
> >> > > drugs. They didn't succeed, but they made the effort and had a go.
> >> > > You've gotta give them credit for that. They're not really trying at
> >> > > all with smoking.
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> >> > And they should be. If smoking tobacco had not been discovered until
> > today
> >> > there is not a snowball's chance in hell of any firm being permitted to
> >> > manufacture and sell such a harmful substance!
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> >> Well the same could be said for alcohol and possibly many other
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> > Well quite....
> > Looking at road deaths...(worldwide obviously)
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> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/5057890.stm
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> > 1.2m people killed each year
> > 50m people injured each year
> > 500 children killed each day
> > 85% of casualties in low and middle-income countries
> > Road deaths to double by 2020 in these countries
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> > Smoking is also said to cause 1 million+ deaths each year.....
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> > But clearly cars pose a greater danger as they kill kids too.
> > Do you think their production would have been permitted....had their
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> > (scuse the pun) been known...
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> I suppose it's a cost/benefit analysis isn't it? If you are honest you will
> recognise that the modern world could not exist without motorised transport.
> As for tobacco..............!!
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> Uno-Hoo!-
A good point but tobacco had been used for centuries before the
dangers were known. They ought to show those old ads with Doctors
telling of the expectorant virtues of Craven A !!
As someone else said if they really wanted it to stop they'd ban
cigarettes and tobacco
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