QUOTE(cyofee @ Thu 12th November 2009, 8:11am)
QUOTE(Malleus @ Thu 12th November 2009, 12:43am)
You'll get no argument from me. I've never smoked, but my wife does and she's a professional pharmacologist, with a PhD. She's often pointed that there's actually no very convincing study on the harmful effects of smoking. Or even, come to that, any bad effects from driving after having consumed a moderate amount of alcohol. In fact some studies seem to suggest that it's actually beneficial. Or so I'm led to believe.
Please post what your wife thinks about smokers' lungs.
What have smokers' lungs got to do with anything? People who don't smoke also get lung cancer, for instance.
QUOTE(Somey @ Thu 12th November 2009, 7:25am)
QUOTE(Malleus @ Wed 11th November 2009, 10:06pm)
What leads you to believe there's "no good reason"?
I'd have to say that if you're espousing ideas like "there's no such thing as mental illness" and "there has been no very convincing study on the harmful effects of smoking," then there are perfectly good reasons to conclude that insulting those who disagree with you is unreasonable - both of those are distinctly unorthodox ideas, at least in the modern world.
Whereas, the fact that Elton John's re-working of the song "Candle in the Wind" was vomit-inducing was, and is, perfectly evident to anyone who heard it or saw it. So, this might conceivably open you up to accusations of trying to associate your unorthodox ideas with your orthodox one(s), so as to legitimize them in a reflective sort of way.
As if I'd be likely to be bothered about that. (IMG:
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