Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Re: Is the Choice on a roll with rants? Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:39:14 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 23:51:24 -0000, Pamela wrote: >=A0We didn't always know that inhaling smoke is unhealthy. =A0In= fact, >=A0there were some cigarette ads in which "doctors" recommended= the >=A0preferred brand for indigestion, weight loss, and asthma!!! It is not at all clear that those claims are false . I used to= be very asthmatic as a child . Since smoking cigars , the only= time I've had trouble was the winter after the WTC crash . The connection with appetite control is legend - the opposite= of THC . Certainly nicotine is very pleasant after a meal . >=A0If=A0inhaling smoke is always unhealthy, does that make "medical >=A0marijuana" a hoax-as some opponents say? I think a lot of BS is said about it . A lot is certainly as= much a hoax a second-hand smoke and global warming . The thing is that the respect for the individual right to= control their own decisions has so eroded that one has to claim to be invalid to the point of death to have any chance of asserting a right over their own fate . It really is a fable that I am surprised to see so blankly= accepted that there was any effective suppression of tobacco dangers .= The fact is that it has become a staggeringly profitable industry= to claim both suppression and dangers even where they are= diminishingly small if at all . =A0 >=A0But think of how=A0long we would have had to wait had we had to > depend on private=A0research foundations. The government was , if anything , late to the party , and has= minimal veracity . If you want accurate statistics go to the private= insurance industry . They have , and have always had , their dollars on= the line forcing them to deal with accurate actuarial experience . Discussions like this really make me appreciate just how= effective government brain washing has been over the last few decades . Perhaps tho , it has reached a point when the evil of the nanny-socialist philosophy is becoming as patent as the evil of= the economic-socialist disasters of the last century . Of course= that fight continues . -- =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/04/08 9:59:29 PM