What!!!! No ashtray

kannibul · 03-25-2010, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Zaggeron

At least I provided some evidence. You simply claimed something as true and haven't produced any evidence to back up your position. If you don't like that article here's another

How Much Does Smoking Cost Society?

From the article:

"Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi studied the net costs of smoking-related spending and savings and found that for every pack of cigarettes smoked, the country reaps a net cost savings of 32 cents.

It looks unpleasant or ghoulish to look at the cost savings as well as the cost increases and it's not a good thing that smoking kills people," Viscusi said in an interview. "But if you're going to follow this health-cost train all the way, you have to take into account all the effects, not just the ones you like in terms of getting your bill passed."

Here's 11.2M:
Google

Also, the article is suggesting we put people down like animals. OK...I guess. I mean, I'm sure that would save us buillions of healthcare dollars, however, imagine all the psychiatric care costs for those who grieve...

Zaggeron · 03-25-2010, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by kannibul

Here's 11.2M:
Google

Great, I cite two papers. One from the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and another with a quote from a famous economist ....

here is the actual link to his paper

Cigarette Taxation and the Social Consequences of Smoking

and you give me a Google link. How many of those 11.2 million articles are from refereed scientific journals? How many have you actually read?

Besides, you missed the point completely. Your search was on "smoking is bad". I never claimed it wasn't. Anyway ... "smoking is good" nets

Results 1 - 10 of about 64,600,000 for smoking is good. (0.27 seconds)

That's 64.6 million to your 11.2 milliom. I win

tjlazer · 03-26-2010, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Zaggeron

"smoking is good" nets

Results 1 - 10 of about 64,600,000 for smoking is good. (0.27 seconds)

That's 64.6 million to your 11.2 milliom. I win

It's called Dopamine and reward pathways. LOL Thats why you like it so much.