Lies of the year
Anyone who argues that smoking isn’t bad for you is probably stupid or, at least, disingenuous. Everyone knows it’s bad for you. But the anti-smoking crowd is ridiculous in the lies they tell about smoking. People know smoking is bad for them but it’s not as bad for them as the zealots in the anti-smoking would have you believe. A tobacco policy analyst compiles the lies of the year about tobacco.
December 30th, 2010 at 10:19 am
And second-hand smoke is even less of a hazard than what you’re told. But I’m considered crazy when I even bring this up in conversation.
December 30th, 2010 at 10:37 am
yeah, there was a whopper a few years back about how secondhand smoke had no minimum safe distance. nukes and super novas have minimum safe distances. But not smoke.
December 30th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
The whopper about secondhand smoke being worse than actually smoking always got me. Sure, the smoke diluted by traveling through the air before getting to me is going to be worse than inhaling the full concentration directly from the source? Pull one of the other ones, it’s got bells on.
December 31st, 2010 at 3:22 am
There are people in my family who smoked a pack a day for 50+ years and lived until 80+ (higher than the average mortality rate). It’s obviously not that harmful. I don’t smoke and I think it’s gross but it’s insane to legislate against it.
December 31st, 2010 at 3:54 am
Jake: I think it had to do with the secondhand smoke being unfiltered as opposed to the source being being filtered.
Full disclosure: I don’t care when/where you smoke as long as I’m not inhaling it. I’m also skeptical about the dangers of secondhand smoke.