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    Default Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    A good reason to work in a smoke-free club.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/...king_ban_heart

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    Default Re: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    I shouldn't joke, but I saw that and immediately though "of course they went down, since the smokers left town".
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    ^ha!

    but that's actually pretty fascinating. seems like the bans are still relatively new but cool that they're actually getting data/results like this

    i quit a few months ago and hate the way it smells now but still want to smoke one sometimes haha

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    Default Re: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    I am sure outlawing red meat would have a similar effect.

    But then that would offend freedom, wouldn't it?

    disgusting...

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    I quit smoking in May. There are smoking bans everywhere in Ontario. But the biggest change for me occurred when smoking was stopped in my workplace many many years ago. That made me go outside and smoke, and realize that I actually liked smoking in the outdoors more. It got so I wouldn't smoke inside even if allowed.

    Gen...it's time to quit the stogies. C'mon, you can do it!

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    It isn't about that...I haven't had a cigar in more than 6 weeks because of sinus issues...I don't HAVE to have them.

    It's about the freedom to have them. something that USED to be sacred. I am troubled by the idea that we can curtail freedoms because they are unpopular or even harmful.

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    Default Re: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    Quote Originally Posted by GenWar View Post
    I am sure outlawing red meat would have a similar effect.
    Well that would never happen Gen because we have to keep their numbers in check. If not, the cows would take over the world.

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    Default Re: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    Your freedom, and the freedom of other smokers was curtailed by law because it was found to be a harmful activity. Harmful to individuals, and therefore harmful to the public good. Smoking was more widely tolerated in the past because it's effects simply weren't well known. Those effects are well known now....by mostly everyone.

    If there is anything I've come to learn about you Gen, it's that you are not a person who wishes to harm another.

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    Smoking bans cut heart attacks by a third: study

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090922/...rt_smoking_ban

    God, I really hope the county I work in passes an indoor smoking ban someday. I don't wanna have to choose between leaving my club (and quitting dancing altogether) and risking my health. What a shitty choice, huh?

    Unfortunately the tobacco lobby is pretty powerful in NC and emitting poisonous chemicals into the area immediately surrounding you and not having to care about who breathes it in is seen as some sort of god-given right

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    Default Re: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    Quote Originally Posted by GenWar View Post
    It isn't about that...I haven't had a cigar in more than 6 weeks because of sinus issues...I don't HAVE to have them.

    It's about the freedom to have them. something that USED to be sacred. I am troubled by the idea that we can curtail freedoms because they are unpopular or even harmful.

    -gen
    Your "freedom" costs the rest of us a shit ton in healthcare costs. If you want to smoke you should be paying most of your salary in taxes to pay for what your fellow freedom lovers costs us when they get sick. As long as we live in a country were doctors aren't allowed to say "its his own fucking fault, let him suffer" then we ALL have to pay for shit like this.

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    Default Re: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

    Quote Originally Posted by ilovetobenaked View Post
    I think it's more ridiculous to force people to wear a seatbelt than to ban smoking. Only person the non-seatbelt wearer will harm is oneself as opposed to the smoker who smokes in public, that can harm those around them.
    Actually no, some jackass who doesn't wear a seatbelt and ends up on disability the rest of his life harms everyone because we all pay for it. Helmet, seatbelt and anti smoking bans are cost saving measures, not protect your own dumbass from yourself measures.

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