Why smoking is good for you! (property rights versus public welfare)

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Lifer
Dec 26, 2001
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Just kidding for the title. Just trying to get some quick feedback on this short paper.

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Thanks for your feedback, everyone. It's not supposed to be very in-depth, and as it is I think I put too much time into it.

Cheers!
Nate
 

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Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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All I can say is that I 100% agree, and I have been trying to tell the Anti-Smoking zealots here everything your paper says, but was met with much resistance. Now as for the substance of the paper, I thought it was very well done. One caveat, however, was that I think you should elaborate a bit on how cholera at the train-station, or safe food prep were much higher risks of harm to human health than ETS. You proved that ETS was not of significant harm, but just the 90% figure about the train station would not be enough to convince the scathing critic. Maybe throw in some stats on how Public Sanitation curbed disease in modern times, or maybe how proper food handling techniques has curbed Hepatitis and Typhoid to some degree? If you pointed on a direct statistical comparison between the two, it would further enhance the idea that ETS's harm to the average person is incredibly minute compared to what we actually regulate for public health. Just some tired thoughts for you.
 

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Lifer
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Mill - those are some awesome ideas. If I had the additional time to research the topic I would. :\

Stupid time constraints.
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: Orsorum
Mill - those are some awesome ideas. If I had the additional time to research the topic I would. :\

Stupid time constraints.

Due tommorrow? Just even one additional source or statistic on public health due to sanitation would help you.
 

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Lifer
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I added that source "It flows downhill" about the link between cholera and sanitation.