Filtering the lies from the facts
Posted in Lies uncovered on Nov 29th, 2010
There is an item on the RTE website about this latest announcement from the WHO and their latest “study”. I’m not going to try to refute their facts and figures because that would be playing them at their own game. The simple fact is that anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see [...]
Posted in Lies uncovered on Nov 25th, 2010
“There are an estimated 6,000 deaths every year from smoking-related illnesses including cancer, heart and respiratory disease“, according to Kathleen O’Meara, of the Irish Cancer Society, and on the face of it, that’s a lot. According to the Eurostat figures in August, there are 1,426,000 smokers in Ireland, or 31% of the population, so 0.4% [...]
Posted in General on Nov 22nd, 2010
In my meanderings around the Internet, looking at statistics and reports, I keep coming across strange facts. Time and time again, I come across figures that seem to imply that smokers live longer and have a lower rate of cancer. Recently I came across another article [tip of the hat to Frank Davis] which seems [...]
Posted in General on Nov 12th, 2010
Why are some non-smokers such ignorant intolerant bastards? I don’t think I have ever read any vitriolic anger from smokers directed at non-smokers, yet I have seen many expressions of sheer hatred directed at smokers. Smokers tend to focus their anger on organisations such as ASH, or governments who are taken in by the anti-smoking [...]
Posted in General on Nov 3rd, 2010
I wrote a piece of whimsy yesterday over on The Other Side. It was a tongue in cheek piece but it got me thinking. My reminiscences are all true. I did indeed grow up in a house where smoking was accepted as the norm. Everywhere I went there were cigarettes. There was smoking on buses [...]
