Comments by stevehartwell
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Posted on August 28, 2007 at 5:05 p.m.
There are at least 18 different restaurants, pubs, and bars, in the Lewisville neighbourhood, offering various kinds of food, drinks, and ambiance.
Why ?
Because different people like different things. There is enough choice that when you see a place that you don't like what they have to offer, you go to another one that you do like.
The population wants them, and the economy, the free market place, can support so many different venues.
How many people would like it if City Council passed an ordinance saying Taco Bell would be the only type allowed in Lewisville.
Anti-smokers say they will go to venues that are zero-smoke tolerance.
Fine. They do deserve that choice.
Sufficient numbers also want to go to a place that does allow smoking.
So, all this means that both difference wants can be accommodated.
And, both must be, in the world's most powerful democracy on the planet.
People are now going to places where smoking is allowed, have been for more than 100 years, and, do not drop dead from going there. Having a smoking venue up the street from a non-smoking venue is not going to cause people in the non-smoking venue to drop dead from the near-proximity either.
Also, consider this further.
If numerous generations for more than 100 years have been and still are patronizing venues that allow smoking, and, living full lives to tell about it, then it probably means that the claims anti-smokers propagandize about are a bunch of hooey.
The Poison is in the Dose, and there's just not enough dose in Second Hand Smoke to be scared to death by thinking about it all the time.
Second Hand Smoke is Not a Statistically Significant Health Risk.
1,000s of times more of the very same particulates in SHS are more than adequately handled by Ventilation in all kinds of situations, such as manufacturing plants and underground mines, and parking garages.
Furthermore, think about Motor Vehicles.
The average daily motor vehicle emissions are more than 1800 Times More than the daily Second Hand Smoke from even the heaviest smoker, and there are way more motor vehicles around than smokers these days, and, most of the car exhaust hugs the ground, to which we are all exposed to 24/7.
If all that Car Exhaust doesn't cause people to drop dead all around us every day, a little tobacco smoke is definitely not going to either.
PLUS, what you also don't know is that new types of cigarette filters are even now on the market that Reduce the alleged harmful particulates by more than 61 % ! Making Second Hand Smoke even Less Statistically Significant than it already is, which is Not Statistically Significant already.
Car Exhaust Risk has been Reduced by only 26 % since the 1960s.
Surely more than 61 % Reduction from Tobacco Smoke deserves the same acceptance as 26 % Reduced Exhaust Motor Vehicles are accepted.
Either also Ban Reduced Exhaust Motor Vehicles,
or also accept Reduced Particulates Cigarettes.
Steve Hartwell Toronto, Canada www.reducedriskcigarettes.ca
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Posted on August 25, 2007 at 11:19 p.m.
Nothing is Risk-Free. It is the AMOUNT of Risk one needs to know.
EVEN AT PRESENT LEVELS
SECOND HAND SMOKE IS NOT A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT HEALTH RISK
THE POISON IS IN THE DOSE
1 milligram = 1/1000th of 1 gram 1 gram = 1/1000th of 1 kilogram
Smoker - 700 milligrams per day
Car - 2.2 MILLION milligrams PER DAY
The Car is about 1800 times WORSE than the Smoker, and, there's a hell of a lot more Cars than Smokers too.
Compared to it's 1960s ancestor - today's Car is a 26 % Reduced Risk Product accepted by society
61 % Reduced Risk Cigarettes are about 2900 times LESS Risk than Cars.
Either also BAN Reduced Risk Cars
or also accept Reduced Risk Cigarettes
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Posted on January 18, 2008 at 10:22 p.m.
There has never been a study proving that exposure to smoke kills or harms anyone. The global news industry is refusing to report that many researchers, scientists, even doctors and politicians, do NOT believe the anti-smoking claims about Second Hand Tobacco Smoke. Average smoker exhales less than 500 milligrams of Second Hand Smoke per day. Average car exhales more than 2.2 MILLION milligrams of Second Hand Smoke per day. It is Cars that need banning, not tobacco smokers. Smoking bans dramatically increase the dehumanization of smokers, increase the hatred of smokers, falsely convicts smokers as murderers without due process of law, violating constitutional rights, and unjustifiably undermines and destroys smokers' relationships with others. Steve Hartwell, Toronto, Canada. www.ventilatedsmokingrooms.ca
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