Re: OT: Humour: "A NEAR FUTURE AFTER DINNER DOSE OF PC FDA NICOTINE"

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:03:45 +0000

I read in sci.electronics.design that Winfield Hill <hill_a@t_rowland-
dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote (in <d1hg0q01492@drn.newsguy.com>)
about 'OT: Humour: "A NEAR FUTURE AFTER DINNER DOSE OF PC FDA
NICOTINE"', on Sat, 19 Mar 2005:
>Rich The Newsgropup Wacko wrote...
>>
>> I could copy and paste the whole thing, but it's a web page:
>> http://www.forces.org/humor/files/sj2.htm
>
> Yes, I really liked "The scientific Archive that debunks 50 years of
> superstitions on smoking." "People are astonished when presented
> with data, collected by organizations that can hardly be described as
> tools of the tobacco industry, that demonstrate the risk of smokers
> contracting lung cancer are quite remote." Too bad that data didn't
> help my father-in-law, or my next-door neighbor, or my grandfather...
>
>
There seems to be a growing body of evidence that for a fairly large
minority of the population, smoking is highly hazardous, whereas for
others it is not. One day, we may find out why.

It may be the same with alcohol: some people can guzzle and not become
addicted, other become addicted very quickly. 

-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. 
There are two sides to every question, except 
'What is a Moebius strip?'
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