23 Days to Smoke Without Getting West Nile!

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Anonymous said…
Amy, I am sure that you are just being witty, but some of your readers may actually think that their risk of getting West Nile will be increased by having to step outside to light up. Just to set the record straight, according to the MS Dept. of Health as of July 20th, there were 8 reported cases of West Nile in the state of MS. In 2004, the CDC estimated there were 2,230 newly diagnosed cases of lung cancer. I am sure that this smoking ban will not lower your risk of developing lung cancer, but I hope that it will lower mine. As for West Nile, I suggest wearing OFF!, I do!
3:29 PM
Crockett said…
Millions of lives were just saved with that last post.
8:34 AM
Thomas Gregory said…
There was another comment, but I rejected it because it was Anonymous. It was in favor of the smoking ban and related opposers to Hitler. Something about the Death Cloud. It was pretty funny, so PLEASE post your name if you want to be heard!
9:30 AM
Anonymous said…
Effects on health
In the first 18 months after the town of Pueblo, Colorado enacted a smoking ban in 2003, hospital admissions for heart attacks dropped 27%. Admissions in neighboring towns without smoking bans showed no change. The American Heart Association said, "The decline in the number of heart attack hospitalizations within the first year and a half after the non-smoking ban that was observed in this study is most likely due to a decrease in the effect of second hand smoke as a triggering factor for heart attacks."[26]

Similar findings are beginning to emerge from other areas which have enacted bans. Researchers at Dundee university found significant improvements in the health of bar staff in the two months following the ban. They tested bar workers' lung function and inflammatory markers a month before the ban came in, and again two months after it had been introduced. The number showing symptoms related to passive smoking fell from more than 80% to less than half, with reduced levels of nicotine in the blood and improvements in lung function of as much as 10%.[27]

Smoke On, Smoke on into the sunset.
11:43 PM
kathleen said…
Yes, but how many people going to bars will die of boredom, huh?

I laughed at your blogline, Amy, but apparently there are many who take these things a little too seriously.
11:37 PM
Anonymous said…
Why should someone be concerned about getting West Nile when they are smokers and sharing their death wish me and others?
11:41 AM
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