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U.S. Tobacco Taxes Viewed As A Likely Source Of Children's Health Funding
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- From the CDC's website:
"Radiation: energy moving in the form of particles or waves. Familiar radiations are heat, light, radio waves, and microwaves. Ionizing radiation is a very high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation."
"Exposure to radiation can cause . . . cancer."
Source: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/glossary
"Energy moving in particles or waves" describes every known source of electrical activity, including power stations, power lines, light bulbs, computers, televisions, radios, cell phones, refrigerators, washing machines, and the list goes on for pages.
If cancer has a single, major, causative factor it is electricity (in all its forms), not tobacco. - Reply to this comment
- If cancer has a single, major, causative factor it is electricity (in all its forms), not tobacco.
Posted by tuckerndfw at 01:07 AM : Jul 09, 2007
Interesting. Can you cite any scientific studies or data to back this up? - Reply to this comment
- When my room mate smoked I sent him outdoors as the smoking made my eye burn from the smoke. When he had his first heart attack Dr told him quit or no treatment. He quit cold turkey and has not smoked sense. He has medical care.
I don't bring it up with Mary. They have a right to make her pay her part if she is that head strong and won't quit. Plain dunb.Then she will pay.I don't think the tax payers oaught pay a smoker's,drinker's medical bills IF they will not quit. If they are that poor then forgive me they got no business smoking and drinking. A cartion of smokes are 50 to 60 dollars. I rather be on the computer. - Reply to this comment
- If Mary will not quit her smoking she will have to pay her own medical bills of her pocket as the state will not pay the bills related to her smoking. She went on about it.
Posted by MichelleM99 at 01:54 AM : Jul 09, 2007
If Mary is suffering from medical problems that require medication or a doctor's care as a result of her smoking, she should quit smoking without having to be told to do so.
That is called "common sense."
Anyone who suffers problems, medical or otherwise, from a specific activity and who continues to engage in that activity is insane.
It is a fairly well established fact that smoking may lead to some rather serious consequences. If a person chooses to smoke and suffers from those consequences, and, he refuses to stop smoking, he should receive no public assistance at all. - Reply to this comment
- If Mary will not quit her smoking she will have to pay her own medical bills of her pocket as the state will not pay the bills related to her smoking. She went on about it.
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- Posted by MichelleM99 at 01:12 AM : Jul 09, 2007
On the contrary, insurance companies and government agencies are attempting to gouge the public.
They sincerely hope people do not quit smoking because that would deprive them of tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars (collectively) in income. - Reply to this comment
- i know a person in my birh state is upset that she must pay a copay cos she smokes. She has 2 choices. Smoke and pay. Quit don't have to pay.The state their is wanting smokers to pay for there habit. She is not happy about.
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- "Energy moving in particles or waves" describes every known source of electrical activity, including power stations, power lines, light bulbs, computers, televisions, radios, cell phones, refrigerators, washing machines, and the list goes on for pages.
If cancer has a single, major, causative factor it is electricity (in all its forms), not tobacco. - Reply to this comment
- According to the CDC, radiation causes cancer.
According to the CDC, the relation between radiation and tobacco usage is unknown as it relates to developing cancer.
Yet, the CDC omits radiation as a possible factor in all those "smoking related deaths" they report.
That omission indicates the "experts" are promoting an agenda rather than providing objective, scientific data.
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From the CDC's website:
Glossary of Radiological Terms
"Radiation: energy moving in the form of particles or waves. Familiar radiations are heat, light, radio waves, and microwaves. Ionizing radiation is a very high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation."
Health Effects of Radiation Exposure
"Exposure to radiation can cause . . . cancer."
Source: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/glossary.asp
Lung cancer: interaction of radiation exposure with smoking.
"It is clear that the interaction between tobacco and radiation exposure is not known."
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"In summary, this Reviewer suggests that the overall weight of evidence suggests that the interaction is indeed between additive and multiplicative, and we really cannot say more than that."
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/pdfs/irep/1005mod/enclose7.pdf - Reply to this comment
- they gave you disability because you smoke. new to me
Posted by oldsailor3 at 10:15 PM : Jul 08, 2007
Isn't that the truth.
He (???) also must have worked in a highly specialized field if he could not find a job because he smoked.
McD's and Walmart usually don't care what their employees do when they are not at work.
Perhaps his meant he refused to find a job because it interfered with his trolling. - Reply to this comment
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