User profile: fredvinson

Quit believing everything you read, see, or hear in the media. The media is one heck of a spindoctor when it comes to social policy and agendas. A lot of people with a lot of money and a lot of nothing to do but whine about made up problems walk hand in hand with the government and pretty much mandate that the media report all of this secondhand smoke nonsense as if it is definitively true.

Secondhand smoke (or passive smoke) does not cause lung cancer. Thirdhand smoke is a bunch of BS. My dad smokes, and he smoked in the house, car, everywhere he went. I've always been around it. No, I don't have respiratory problems. Yes, I can run marathons (no joke). I haven't had as much as a slight cold in two years. Oh, and yes, I smoke! Yet, you want to sit here and complain to me about the "effects" of secondhand smoke? Get over yourselves!
I have two graduate degrees and I'm working on a third, so I'm not just some idiot spouting off his opinion. Trust me, I've done the research rather than just listen and believe health fanatics and crybabies.

This one should really get health nazis going: Moderate smoking doesn't even significantly affect a smoker's health!!!

On another note, what "poison" do some of you speak of? The arsenic? There's a lot more arsenic in tap water, yes, a lot more. What about that magic amount of nicotine that gets you "hooked?" That magic amount is mandated/limited by the federal government! It would be better if they had more nicotine. People would smoke less. Without going through a list here, the point is that you can break almost anything we as humans ingest and find ingredients that can be found in cigarettes or any other food. It's just another spindoctor tactic. Okay, really finally, people get "hooked" on cigarettes because the government and media brainwash them into believing just that!

I'm proud not too have joined this god awful circus.

I'm so embarrassed. I let out a little inkling of falsity in my previous posting that I cannot retrieve now. Here it is:

I commented on cigarette smoke allergies. ACTUALLY, NO SUCH ALLERGY EXISTS. Mister Poker Pro has no such non-existent allergy...just a whiny distaste for cigarette smoke. My sincere apologies to readers.

Once again "truthfromreason," secondhand smoke is not a health threat. Obviously, your reasoning has escaped you. Independent experts everywhere agree that SHS is not a health threat. If you need sources, just let me know. I'm happy to provide them. SHS danger fabrication is a product of self-interested, bored, whiny, "I'm better than you" hypochondriacs. Also, government "scientists" and university "independent" scientists that produced and still produces the "evidence" that feuls the anti-smoking propaganda were and are pressured into producing favorable results to those who support smoking bans and, well, making smoking illegal. These supporters are obviously swayed by political favoritism and money (think of big pharma here). Okay, I'm done for the moment on that topic.

Take a step back and really question yourself as to why you believe SHS is a health risk. Actually, the risks of SMOKING are highly inflated. Oh yeah, you know about that surgeon general's warning that says smoking light or ultra light cigarettes are (in short) not safer? That's wrong, too. The Surgeon General responsible for these warnings and findings has admitted to being coerced into producing certain results. By the way, the WHO report that got this whole thing started, while junk science at its best, even stated that it found no associated health risk with exposure to "ETS." Well, the fine people that commissioned the study just decided to "legally" change the title of the study to indicate findings that SHS causes lung cancer.

To those with allergies triggered by cigarette smoke: Don't fault smokers for your allergies. That's your problem. I'm allergic to pollen, grass, dust mites, and anything that has fur. I sneeze every time I walk outside. While in Vegas, my girlfriend started finding it humorous (as did I) that every time I walked outside that (mocking) "nasty, dirty, smoke-filled casino" I sneezed constantly. On the casino floor...no problems. Maybe we should pave everything because nature triggers my allergies.

One last thing to those who support smoking bans just because you don't like the smell of cigarette smoke:
I hate ranch dressing, and the smell of it makes me want to puke. This goes for mayonaise as well. When I go to restaurants, I can smell it on other person's plates as well as the people I'm sitting with. The government should ban it from restaurants because I don't like the smell of it even though other people enjoy it. Sounds pretty ridiculous doesn't it?

And yes, I am a smoker and proud to be one in these times of stupidity.

SHS causes lung cancer...and there were witches in Salem.