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  • #1

    How did they know?

    Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
    -James I of England, "A Counterblaste to Tobacco."

    also, the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (1623-1640) had similiar sentiments.
    "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
    "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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    Common sense?

    "Hmm, I wonder if inhaling something that makes me hack and gag the first time could be bad for me."
    "Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
    "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
    "It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark Twain

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    • #3
      "Hmm, I wonder if swallowing something that makes me hack and gag the first time could be bad for me."
      let's be glad females don't think the same way as you
      Last edited by Solly; December 27, 2003, 15:48.
      www.my-piano.blogspot

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      • #4
        Yet people successfully sued the cig companies for not telling them it was harmful. *sigh*
        "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
        "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Park Avenue
          let's be glad females don't think the same way as you
          That's not inhaling...
          I'm consitently stupid- Japher
          I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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          • #6
            also, the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV (1623-1640) had similiar sentiments.
            a 17 year old Ottoman Sultan... WOW I'm IMPRESSED!

            somehow, human civilization survived THE EVILS OF SMOKING!
            To us, it is the BEAST.

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            • #7
              sava, what? he was crowned in 1623... he was only 11 when he was crowned but still..
              "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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              • #8
                Murad IV?

                How willing are you to accept health and lifestyle advice from a man who drank himself to death before the age of 30?
                The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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                • #9
                  Maybe Murad was into punk rock.

                  Live fast, die young!!
                  I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                  I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Albert Speer
                    sava, what? he was crowned in 1623... he was only 11 when he was crowned but still..
                    oh I thought the dates were his life... but still 11??!!? so from age 11-28... the "wise" Sultan graced the world with his wisdom?!

                    hmmm he died at 28? gee what did he die from? not cigarettes I bet...
                    To us, it is the BEAST.

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                    • #11
                      quote:
                      Originally posted by Park Avenue
                      let's be glad females don't think the same way as you



                      That's not inhaling...

                      It is according to a former american president so it is to every american..
                      Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                      Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                      • #12
                        so what if he was 11

                        and if he drank himself to death that means I'm going to take his advice even MORE

                        he obviously knows how to **** himself over
                        We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Park Avenue


                          let's be glad females don't think the same way as you
                          "I predict your ignore will rival Ben's" - Ecofarm
                          ^ The Poly equivalent of:
                          "I hope you can see this 'cause I'm [flipping you off] as hard as I can" - Ignignokt the Mooninite

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by alva
                            That's not inhaling...


                            It is according to a former american president so it is to every american..
                            No, he said that "getting totally stoned out of your freaking mind" was not inhaling. Not filling in your intern on her new position.

                            (you'd think that Clinton would be Ted Striker's hero. They have the same motto, "I'd hit it."?)
                            I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                            I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                            • #15
                              We've known about the dangers of tobacco and coffee for over a hundred years(that I know of), in addition to the health benefits of eating more grains/veggies etc and limiting the amount of meat in one's diet.

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