Comments on: Smoking Ban Spurs Drop In Heart Attacks

41 Percent Drop In Hospitalized Cases Reported 3 Years After Pueblo, Colo. Adopts Ban

[wl7bzh]

Talk to folks about,diet,exercise,safe *** or not smoking and you''ll get the same smug response-"we all gotta die from something-might as well enjoy life"

Then when these same folks are confronted with the result of years of unhealthy living, out comes the denial,anger, bargaining, etc.

It''s kinda like watching a rerun of a really bad movie-you know the lines by heart. It''s all been done before. Ya smile and bite your tongue to keep from telling them what you really think.

People wonder why specialty medicine is so danged expensive.

[carlylaine]

HEY rudy6543: WHEN did you become a control freak? Do you only follow studies that agree with your ideals? KEEP YOUR HANDs off my life!!!!

[carlylaine]

Another Bullshiite study to PROVE that they are the ones who know what''s the best for us. I say BULLSHIITE!!!!! Keep your nasty socialistic fingers off my STUFF!!!!

MY FREEDOM!
MY CHOICE!
MY LIFE!

[timothyone-2009]

Many industry sponsored studies show that the result of this and similar studies are in fact inaccurate, and grossly misleading. Several half-century long studies have shown that regular tobacco use not only increases longevity, it gives the smoker a distinctive and appealing aroma, and a very attractive coloring of the teeth. While some complain that tobacco is harmful to human health, industry experts have shown the regular coughing and hacking that often accompanies the smoking of fine tobaccos is not only good exercise for the heart and lungs, it serves to help rid the lungs of other impurities such as the small flying insects and the deadly pollen often found in the air we breath.
Overall, tobacco use is a boon to human health, with the only known possible draw back being the annoyance created when the confident, young cigarette smoker appears stronger and more attractive to the opposite ***. Just ask any tobacco farmer or stock holder.

[grammawhamma]

When I submit an opinion I want the same audience the article had or why bother. Like most people, I''''m not interested in being shuttled off to a sound-proof booth where my opinion is effectively muzzled, silenced. Here you are talking to empty seats. What good is it to have a "Readers'''' Comments" section when there is no realistic way for readers of the article to access the comments? CBS is defrauding you with a ruse, counterfeit comments webpage.

Posted by Truth_Police at 07:43 PM : Dec 31, 2008


What have you been smoking?

[grammawhamma]

Smokers, its ok if you insist on smoking. Just do it by yourselves and dont ask the rest of us to share the costs of your care. Maybe you can form separate clubs where you sneak off and "have one" but stop claiming the laws limit your freedom when you so openly abuse mine.
Posted by machineguy at 06:37 PM : Dec 31, 2008

That won''t work because before you know it, the smoke free zealots would be crying that the seperate ''smokers club'' contained smelly deadly second hand smoke and they wanted to enter it without being exposed to those deadly fumes.

More than worrying about the costs of a smoker''s care, you should be more worried about the cost to your pocketbook of someone who dies of longevity and spends the last 25-30 years of their life on Medicare sitting in a nursing home.

[rudy6543]

Posted by oledakota at 09:47 PM

I hope your example will inspire others. Congratulations on an excellent decision and your success!

[rudy6543]

I am all for banning smoking every where. I know people who smoke and I really care for them. I hate to see what the krap does to a person''s health. When I studied anatomy we looked at the lungs of a 50 year old man who had died from lung disease. Up until then, I had never imagined that a person only 50 years old could die from lung disease. I believe in personal responsibility, but I don''t believe in supporting the facilitators of the vice.

[aztecdakota]

I am 72, had a strong heart attack in 2000, lived through it , got a stint. Came home, made a decision to smoke only 3 cigarettes a day. Smoked one. Was walking through the living room with my hands full of packs of cigs and tobacco stuff. Wife said, what are you doing? I said, This is going to be fertilizer in our yard, I quit. I am entering into the 9th year now since that day. For the past two years, my heart clinic has declared me "Clear", praise the Lord. Smoking is no joking. I have lived 9 more years than I should have, and am still going strong. Make your own choice.

[troutfisher4]

I have lived in Oklahoma for the majority of my 42 years. Never have I seen seagulls here. I saw them in Florida when I lived there. We have flocks of them this year. I am in Oklahoma and I HAVE GULL POOP on my car.

Posted by DebinOK1


global warming - species moving north

Of course, you think global warming is a hoax, LOL.

[budfrank1]

Wow! That''s great! If they''d ban hamburgers, think of the drop in heart attacks. If they''d only lower the speed limit, think of the drop in fatalities! If they''d only ban cars, think of all the lives that would be saved! Long live the Nanny State!

[debinok1]

I have lived in Oklahoma for the majority of my 42 years. Never have I seen seagulls here. I saw them in Florida when I lived there. We have flocks of them this year. I am in Oklahoma and I HAVE GULL POOP on my car.

[debinok1]

I know this is off topic. Has anyone else noticed the strange behaviour of the wildlife recently?

[debinok1]

did, I did!!!

: )


Posted by legacyABQ
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ROFL, Yes I saw that.

[legacyabq]

Posted by DebinOK1 at 07:55 PM : Dec 31, 2008


I did, I did!!!

: )

[legacyabq]

CAREFULLY READ the LAST PARAGRAPH AGAIN!!----------------

"The study assumed declines in the amount of secondhand smoke in Pueblo buildings after the ban, but did not try to measure that. The researchers also did not sort out which heart attack patients were smokers and which were not, so it''s unclear how much of the decline can be attributed to reduced secondhand smoke." -------------

Duh, that means its not scientific.. Look, no matter how tempting it may be, CORRELATION does not equal CAUSATION.. These scientists ought to know better. It''s one of the first things they teach you ina science class at university

[debinok1]

Did ANYONE even bother to read the last paragraph of this article?

"The study assumed declines in the amount of secondhand smoke in Pueblo buildings after the ban, but did not try to measure that. The researchers also did not sort out which heart attack patients were smokers and which were not, so it''s unclear how much of the decline can be attributed to reduced secondhand smoke. "

They did not do a scientific study.
There is no research backing up this statement.
The only thing they know for a FACT is that in the last three years they have had a 41% reduction in Heart Disease related admissions. They do not know how many were smokers and how many were non smokers.

[truth_police]

This is a RUSE (counterfeit) CBS Comments page. Only people who actually SUBMIT an opinion or comment can see any of these comments. And if they migrate away to another webpage afterwards, they cannot get back to this so-called ''comments'' page where these opinions are posted, UNLESS they submit another opinion. The only way to access this ''comments'' page is to submit an opinion. 99 percent of the article readers do not submit opinions, but like me, they want to read other''s comments. So 99.9999 percent of the people who read the subject article cannot see your comments. Your opinion has, for all practical purposes, been completely stifled, silenced, censored, smothered, muzzled, gagged, suffocated by CBS. YOU''VE BEEN DUPED ... SUCKER-PUNCHED right out of the ring. Shuttled to a sound-proof booth where essentially no one can hear you. When I submit an opinion I want the same audience the article had or why bother. Like most people, I''m not interested in being shuttled off to a sound-proof booth where my opinion is effectively muzzled, silenced. Here you are talking to empty seats. What good is it to have a "Readers'' Comments" section when there is no realistic way for readers of the article to access the comments? CBS is defrauding you with a ruse, counterfeit comments webpage.

[Renegade.Rivers]

... but stop claiming the laws limit your freedom when you so openly abuse mine.

Posted by machineguy
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Whether I am a smoker or not, is not the issue here, the issue is the lose of our freedoms. Let me point out to you some things you should be concerned about.

The increase in cancer over the last few decades has been attributed to a lot of things besides smoking or breathing second-hand. I wonder how concerned you are about them.

Fluoride in the water you drink.

Thermisol in vaccinations.

Chemical residue on fresh fruits and vegetables that water will not was off.

Additives in food that are proven to cause cancer at much higher rates than smoking, or breathing second hand smoke.

Aspartame, if you drink diet sodas, or eat any other diet foods, Aspartame is made out of e-coli, and very dangerous.

Medicines that have not been properly tested by the FDA.

Chemicals that are being sprayed into the atmosphere, i.e Chemtrails.

I could go on and on, but you surely get the idea. Yet you believe by singling out the smoker it is going to make you safer?

That was my point exactly, it is a ruse, and in the process it''s just one more right that is taken away, then another and another.

Please wake up there my friend, you are being led down a long dark road, that is filled with a lot of nasty consequences. If you doubt my accuracy on anything I have just mentioned, please do some research. It really would be in yours and your families best interest.

[samael2014]

WHERE is the science or documented mechanism for coming to this conclusion?

And why is CBS focused on this and ignoring the FACT that pre-mature births in the state of IOWA DECREASED by 60% during seven STRAIGHT months in 1997 when a BAN on crop circles was enforced?