>>>... I don't believe all the hype. I just wish they used that much propaganda against real polluters.
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>>Is it really only hype?
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>Well, I've heard one of the top officials, when he was asked "what are the statistics about lung cancer now that so many people have quit smoking", and he said "we don't know of any research on that". One would expect the whole thing to be checked for efficiency, wouldn't it?
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>So while smoking is in no way good for you, I think it's also not as dangerous as they claim. And I also believe nobody died from second-hand smoke.

I saw commercials about people having lung cancer and that never smoked. Perhaps you'll wonder if it was only caused by second-hand smoking. Who really knows.

>No, not only hype, but a lot of it. Just like the tobacco companies paid for research which then showed the smoking is not detrimental to health, I also don't think the research paid by anti-smoking lobby was unbiased. Besides, it's not real research, it's mostly statistics. Specially in a country which has zero of a health system which can reach everybody, you can't have reliable data, only samples. With carefully selected samples anything can be proven.

I really thought that it was proven scientifically that cigarettes are not good for us.

>To me it's very connected. OK, couch potatos are a danger to themselves only (unless you sit next to a large specimen in public transportation), but about the other forms of pollution - I think that the whole campaign against smoking is just a pretext to do nothing about the rest, yet keep the façade of activity. And smokers are so easy to be against... I've seen some very ridiculous reactions in some places.

Speaking of health in general. I just bought a very interesting book. The title is "Les aliments contre le cancer". That could be translated to "Food against cancer".

It's based on studies made by doctors (not wackos). To resume in short what's in it. We should eat a lot of vegetables and fruits. It's not as simple as that but it's the main idea.

Just as an example one of those doctors treated children with brain cancer. They started to make those kids eat mixtures of certain fruits and vegetables and it stopped the progression of their cancer.

I've seen one of those doctors on TV a couple of times and he's very interesting. I guess this book will be translater in english some day.

Anyway to get back to our main topic and from what you say it really looks like you won't change your mind and I tell you that I won't change mine. So enjoy those cigarettes Dragan.