September 17, 200717 yr I am fully aware of how bad smoking is for me. I understand that if I smoke it will kill me. But I don't smoke because I am aware of that. Don't tell me to live with it - I am in agreement that the Smoking Ban is really great (especially for non smokers like me) BUT I don't understand how this can take effect so quickly and how they can measure it. Like already stated, smoking has a long term effect on people and it can't be measured in 18 months. You say "I don't understand how this can take effect so quickly and how they can measure it" and then you say "it can't be measured in 18 months". Which is it? You don't understand how they can measure it, or you difinitively know that they can't measure it? Scotland and that town in Colorado would suggest that they can measure it - even if you don't understand how. When I say "live with it" I mean live with the fact that the improvement is quick and dramatic, even if this goes against your suspicion of statistics and governments, not live with the fact that smoking is bad for you. I think we all know that by now. My argument on this thread is with the knee jerk need to believe in bad news, even when it's good news. It's why the Australians call us whinging Poms! I think as a nation it is one of our least attractive traits. There is plenty of genuinely bad news around without trying to turn good news in to bad news as well! Which I guess for a Brit makes me pretty weird!
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