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Old 06-05-2008, 08:31 AM
Strangelet
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Re: Another one o' them smoking ban threads....
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Originally Posted by Rog View Post
dead right cacophony - or Alzheimers or Virulent CJD or food poisoning or Cryptosporidia, or any other bacterial/viral infection picked up in the community/from food/from going on holiday ad nauseum

The basis of your argument is totally flawed. No amount of education/good diet/fitness whatever etc can stop you getting E.coli 0157 from meat or salmonella from eggs or crypto from a swimming pool or resistant TB from walking past someone on the street.....or are you superhuman?
according to medicalnet.com, these are the primary causes of cancer.
  • Growing older
  • Tobacco
  • Sunlight
  • Ionizing radiation
  • Certain chemicals and other substances
  • Some viruses and bacteria
  • Certain hormones
  • Family history of cancer
  • Alcohol
  • Poor diet, lack of physical activity, or being overweight
So I guess if you are poor, you need to be held accountable and take responsibility that you don't ever grow older, work in the sun, work around chemicals, get infected by bacteria/viruses, and be born from certain families? I mean besides the no drinking/smoking part.

This is troll-like logic.

Or you back it up with an alternative safety net, not some passive muttering about a community based charity effort like its a minute detail. Even Ron Paul knows that.
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