[thechat] Appalling

[Martin]

Erika Meyer wrote on 25/7/01 10:38 pm

>and what about all the other health effects associated with smoking 
>(more sickness, prolonged sicknesses, childhood asthma) that perhaps 
>aren't directly related to death, but instead to lost work days and 
>extra doctor visits?

It says to me
"Shit, we've lost the health argument. Let's scrape around to
turn the defeat into some kind of victory"
And they chose the 1st thing they thought of. As noted above,
it's easily refuted.

Cheers
Martin

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