Re: RE: Lighten up, jeez. I was less defensive than this when I smoked ciggies...
...they're actually repeating scientifically verified facts...
I tried once to verify it. All I could get were lots of official documents telling me it was bad, and lots of papers telling me that there was a correlation - many of them using very poor methodologies and seemingly cherry-picking their evidence.
So I suspect that these 'facts' are a lot less clear if you approach the subject with an open mind. The one thing that I did find out was that smoking is strongly correlated with surviving heart attacks, and researchers are embarrassed by this....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
