The Knight Life by Keith Knight for March 08, 2014
Transcript:
pharmacist: welcome to HeeBee GeeBeez pharmacy!! For the sake of our customers health, the heebee geebeez chain will no longer be selling cigarettes at any of its 10,000 stores!! KK: Thats okay!! Im here to pick up a couple of candy bras, a bag of funyuns and a bottle of vodka!! pharmacist: Aisle 3, past the caffeinated sugar water!!
PoodleGroomer over 10 years ago
There is no safe level of tobacco consumption and none of the things he was looking was demanded by a robber with a gun.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 10 years ago
Also the items he is asking for only affects himself while tobacco can affect others.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Keith, can’t believe your being sarcastic about CVS not selling tobacco products.
rwpikul over 10 years ago
Care to cite that study? No? Could it be because the study combined an extremely limited scope of effects, (lung cancer only), with a diluted sample of second-hand smoke exposure, (that result was for all but the most trivial exposure).
It’s almost like they did a more general study then cherry picked an outlier.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 10 years ago
^Exactly! There is no such thing as secondhand or even third hand junk food.
rwpikul over 10 years ago
To begin with you make the same “cancer is the only thing to think about” error. When SHS also causes SIDS, lung function deficiencies from prenatal exposure, heart disease, etc. Then you compound it by ignoring over two decades of continued work on the issue.
IOW: Even if we can ignore everything before EPA93, there is a ton of stuff that came after it. That you focus on 20 year old work implies that you, (or, more likely, the professional denialists you are parroting), can’t scare up issues with things like the 2006 Surgeon General’s report.
That you, personally, did not have any noticeable adverse effects is no more proof of safety than not being wounded when someone shoots up your house with a machine gun is proof that bullets are harmless.