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mrlewish
Posted: Jun 26 2007, 02:30 PM


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May because poor people are more likely to smoke.. Poor peoplea are disproportionally affected by disasters. Correlation dies not equal causality.
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Posted: Jun 30 2007, 07:10 AM


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I would not think that because of a disaster someone who had previously not smoked would take up smoking any more than they would take up drugs. It is more likely that they now smoke a lot more than they did before, using smoking as a mental crutch.


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Any fool can appear smart in answering a question on accepted science by simply using a search engine. Such people however panic as soon as anything out of the box comes up because there is no ready made answer they can use. They then seek to hide their ignorance by ridiculing the person concerned or like an Englishman abroad, just shouting accepted science ever louder till they get a result.
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