So apparently Cigarettes aren't bad for you

[QUOTE="Rekunta"]

More doctors smoke Camels? :lol: :lol: :lol: My doc smokes Lucky Strikes.

Jeeez. Even so, smoking and coughing up all that crap from your lungs has to make you curious and question whether they're right or not. You'd think at least.

jalexbrown

But you'd think at some point common sense would work itself into the equation. It does not require a study to understand that putting a loaded gun to my head and pulling the trigger will more than likely kill me. Now I could understand shooting something like heroin or snorting cocaine would be a bit harder to prove (wasn't Freud a cokehead?), but smoke obviously damages the lungs, a fact made apparent simply by looking at victims of smoke inhalation from fires.

But hey, if DOCTORS condoned it, what can I say?

Something I always noted as humorous is that until the age of 6 or 7 I had severe asthma. Because of this my mum (a smoker) would go off at my dad whenever he smoked around my brother and I, especially me (she was a bit more cautious then he). Since 7 or so, I haven't had asthma. I myself now smoke from time to time and I feel perfectly fine, no shortness of breath or anything. That has always fascinated me.

[QUOTE="jalexbrown"][QUOTE="Rekunta"]

More doctors smoke Camels? :lol: :lol: :lol: My doc smokes Lucky Strikes.

Jeeez. Even so, smoking and coughing up all that crap from your lungs has to make you curious and question whether they're right or not. You'd think at least.

Rekunta

But you'd think at some point common sense would work itself into the equation. It does not require a study to understand that putting a loaded gun to my head and pulling the trigger will more than likely kill me. Now I could understand shooting something like heroin or snorting cocaine would be a bit harder to prove (wasn't Freud a cokehead?), but smoke obviously damages the lungs, a fact made apparent simply by looking at victims of smoke inhalation from fires.

But hey, if DOCTORS condoned it, what can I say?

"Common sense" really doesn't mean much without evidence to back it up.

Microwaves are known to cause injury and death, so "common sense" might dictate that heavy use of microwave ovens could result in premature death over an extended period of time. This is not shown to be the case in studies.

Cell phone towers and radio transmitters have long been suspected to make people sick. They put out all kinds of electromagnetic waves out into the environment, and electromagnetic waves have been shown to kill and injure people. "Common sense" says tat a cell phone tower being installed in your immediate vicinity is going to make your family die. And yet, studies have shown that cell phone towers don't hurt anyone (aside from making your neighborhood look ugly).

Sometime studies are consistent with "common sense", sometimes they aren't.

I was listening to a conversation on the Bus from a Guy who believes Cigarettes don't kill you. I nearly choked a chuckle, I didn't want to offend him. Why do people believe that Cigarettes are harmless, and why do people start smoking anyways?Mesden