Paul
Vancouver, BC
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070529/wl_nm/china_smoking_dc
Reuters wrote About 100,000 Chinese die annually from diseases associated with passive smoking while more than half a billion on the mainland suffer from the smoke exhaled from cigarettes, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Coremodels
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I'd love to know how they're tagging passive smoke to this instead of the INSANE air pollution they've already got. The SEPA scale runs from 1-500, with 25 being healthy, 200 being quite bad, and they were logging days at 500 last year in Beijing.
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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From what the article says, I don't know if your headline is totally accurate. 100,000 die from diseases associated with second-hand smoke. I'm sure at least a handful of those cases could be from other acitivies associated with the same diseases. China is full of industrial pollution, coal mines, dirty power plants, and with their densely populated cities filling with more automobiles every day, it wouldn't be surprise me if at least two or three of those 100,000 deaths could be from diseases also associated with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Beijing_smog_comparison_August_2005.png
Anyhoo, not trying to discount the fact that prolonged exposure to second-hand smoke can lead to health problems or death, but seriously... if your tinfoil hat grows any bigger it'll cover your eyes completely and make these news stories totally impossible to read.
:P
bonniefide
NE Side
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That smog picture is INSAAANE! After seeing that, I wouldn't be surprised if that number skyrockets.
Paul
Vancouver, BC
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Walker wrote From what the article says, I don't know if your headline is totally accurate.... if your tinfoil hat grows any bigger it'll cover your eyes completely and make these news stories totally impossible to read.
I merely took the headline verbatim from the news article and used it as the thread title.
If you're implying that I have a mind-control-protection tinfoil hat because I post a link to an article sourced by Reuters (that appeared on the Yahoo! frontpage), then I don't know how to respond to that.
Coremodels
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Paul wroteWalker wrote From what the article says, I don't know if your headline is totally accurate.... if your tinfoil hat grows any bigger it'll cover your eyes completely and make these news stories totally impossible to read.
I merely took the headline verbatim from the news article and used it as the thread title.
If you're implying that I have a mind-control-protection tinfoil hat because I post a link to an article sourced by Reuters (that appeared on the Yahoo! frontpage), then I don't know how to respond to that.
LOL...come on now Paul, we all know you were trying to get WorkingMusician riled up ;)
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