Comments on: Its NOT the “third-hand smoke” that stinks http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/2009/01/05/its-not-the-third-hand-smoke-that-stinks/ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: morton from vienna http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/2009/01/05/its-not-the-third-hand-smoke-that-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-5703 morton from vienna Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:40:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/?p=518#comment-5703 If you want to be radioactive, feel free to be, while you still can, in the few places which remain where you are still able to smoke. We will eventually completely outlaw your "right" to be radioactive anywhere soon enough... If you want to be radioactive, feel free to be, while you still can, in the few places which remain where you are still able to smoke. We will eventually completely outlaw your “right” to be radioactive anywhere soon enough…

]]> By: Chris http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/2009/01/05/its-not-the-third-hand-smoke-that-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-5699 Chris Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:59:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/?p=518#comment-5699 Excellent points. And you know full well that this latest "evidence" will be used to ban smoking in private residences altogether. Prohibition was a disaster with alcohol, it's been a disaster with narcotics so hey! Let's try it with tobacco! The third-hand smoke topic came up yesterday in, of all things, my Computers & Society course??? And I was almost yelling, "There is no science to support the assertion that third-hand smoke is dangerous!" Got some weird looks of course. As a former journalist, I get irritated when I see papers like the NYT reporting dubious research as if it was already an established fact. - Chris Excellent points. And you know full well that this latest “evidence” will be used to ban smoking in private residences altogether. Prohibition was a disaster with alcohol, it’s been a disaster with narcotics so hey! Let’s try it with tobacco!

The third-hand smoke topic came up yesterday in, of all things, my Computers & Society course??? And I was almost yelling, “There is no science to support the assertion that third-hand smoke is dangerous!” Got some weird looks of course. As a former journalist, I get irritated when I see papers like the NYT reporting dubious research as if it was already an established fact.

- Chris

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