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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Vanity and stress release.
The devil's in the details. My problem with these studies is they all fail to tell people how very little being around second hand smoke, or drinking four cocktails a night, raises their risk. The people who put out these studies want them to be read, so they say "Second Hand Smoking Causes Cancer!"... and in the fine print, you read, "in one out of 3,000,000 people, 79% of whom have a mutation at gene CDK9."
A person who just reads headnotes (most of the press) takes the ball and runs with it. Then some idiot on a city planning board holds it up at a metting and says "We must ban smoke everywhere!"
And so misiniformation spreads further...
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And you dont' think this is all just a pretext for (1) trying to make it less convenient to smoke in the hope that fewer people will do it (you do agree that actually smoking increases cancer risk, right?), and/or (2) getting rid of an otherwise annoying and impolite behavior (i.e. smoking indoors and around others)?
