Re: Legalization: only way to beat "Terrorism's Harvest"

From: Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:51:22 +0000 (UTC)

"Les Cargill" <lcargill@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> needs a login

None of the articles I read asked me to log in.

> These correlations are not significant.

Are you saying that because you don't understand
what "significant at the 95% level" means, and how
those correlations stack when lots of studies come
up the same, are you saying that because you don't
understand how peer reviewed journals work, or are
you simply lying despite knowing the truth?

> The URLs above all* point to various things that
> do not constitute a coherent, clear indictment of
> secondhand smoke as a public health haazard.

Try reading the ones about the increased (doubled)
respiratory problems of children in households where
parents smoke.

> Look, the people who carried the laws forward
> don't even try to say they know it's bad, they say
> "Yes, but what if"?

This is nonsense.

> *For a random sampled value of "all".

I'm sorry, you are so far off base this far, I
cannot be bothered to read the rest of what you
wrote. I've been off climbing mountains and
beachcombing, I have lots of Usenet to read that
is better researched than what you wrote.

Yes, the studies are statistically significant, yes,
the problems they documented are severe, yes, the
laws are passed in response to real, and well
understood problems. Until you can get past those
barriers that have you living in denial, not much
else of what you have to say is of particular
interest.

xanthian. 

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