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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Unless the only reason you eat healthily and exercise is pure vanity, you are totally inconsistent. Eating right and exercising does not ensure you will never get sick. It increases your chances of not getting sick, and improves your quality of life. Similarly, inhaling second-hand smoke increases your chances of getting cancer (though it does not ensure you will get cancer) and can make quality of life worse.
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Vanity and stress release.
The devil's in the details. My problem with these studies is they all fail to tell people how very little being around second hand smoke, or drinking four cocktails a night, raises their risk. The people who put out these studies want them to be read, so they say "Second Hand Smoking Causes Cancer!"... and in the fine print, you read, "in one out of 3,000,000 people, 79% of whom have a mutation at gene CDK9."
A person who just reads headnotes (most of the press) takes the ball and runs with it. Then some idiot on a city planning board holds it up at a metting and says "We must ban smoke everywhere!"
And so misiniformation spreads further...
