View Poll Results: Smoking laws - good or bad?
good
30
90.91%
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3
9.09%
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smoking laws : good or bad?
May 7th 2007, 10:39 am
#46
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
"If we catch you smoking, we won't let you keep the baby"!
May 7th 2007, 10:46 am
#47
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May 7th 2007, 10:48 am
#48
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May 7th 2007, 6:17 pm
#51
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
I gave up smoking nearly 20 years ago and i'm proud to be the world worst Anti-smoker!!!
Can't wait for the smoking ban in public places...can't stand the smell.
Found out about 6 months ago that daughter smoked for a couple of weeks and was gutted
...she was less pleased when i took back her £20 pocket money stating that i wasn't prepared to pay for her to smoke and if she needs money then she'll need a job
thing is this is impossible as she's only 15 and can't get a job because of her age. Oh i also gave her all the gorey facts about smoking...she stopped
Roll on July
Can't wait for the smoking ban in public places...can't stand the smell.
Found out about 6 months ago that daughter smoked for a couple of weeks and was gutted
...she was less pleased when i took back her £20 pocket money stating that i wasn't prepared to pay for her to smoke and if she needs money then she'll need a job thing is this is impossible as she's only 15 and can't get a job because of her age. Oh i also gave her all the gorey facts about smoking...she stopped Roll on July
May 7th 2007, 6:24 pm
#52
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
"There is no PROOF that smoking causes cancer, you know."
Tell that to Richard Doll
Tell that to Richard Doll
May 7th 2007, 7:25 pm
#53
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
[QUOTE=Avid;4747367]Deary me! I didn't say 'smoking doesn't cause cancer'. I said it hasn't been PROVED. If it was proven they wouldn't be able to sell any fags at all, would they?
Or they could put warnings on packets like 'Smoking causes cancer' and 'smoking kills.' Oh, thats right, THEY ALRREADY DO.
Or they could put warnings on packets like 'Smoking causes cancer' and 'smoking kills.' Oh, thats right, THEY ALRREADY DO.
May 7th 2007, 9:31 pm
#55
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
Obviously, if you smoke you are going to have a much greater chance of getting cancer...but it's wrong to say that if you smoke you WILL get cancer.
And passive smoking, though not very nice, seems to have no links to cancer.
I stopped smoking ten years ago, by the way
May 7th 2007, 10:14 pm
#56
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
obviously avid is an oncologist in his spare time. You seem to have completely ignored the fact that smokers get small cell cancer, and I don't think anyone mentioned passive smoking, just that they didn't like being around smokers. You're obviously bored at work and fancy trying to bait for an argument with your ridiculous comments.
May 7th 2007, 10:36 pm
#57
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Re: smoking laws : good or bad?
obviously avid is an oncologist in his spare time. You seem to have completely ignored the fact that smokers get small cell cancer, and I don't think anyone mentioned passive smoking, just that they didn't like being around smokers. You're obviously bored at work and fancy trying to bait for an argument with your ridiculous comments.
But you can't say "If you smoke, you will get small cell cancer" you can only say "People with small cell cancer are almost always smokers".
Smoking doesn't automatically give you cancer...it's combination of smoking, diet, lifestyle and genetics that causes it. That's what I mean when I say there is no proof.
Anyway, some statistics suggest that 15% of New Zealanders prefer cannabis, perhaps that's why there isn't much smoking in public.
I'm not biting this time 
