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[Az]

Exactly, MM.

[Bereta_Eder]

But that doesn't preclude that we wouldn't have cancer epidemic before.

[Bereta_Eder]

I think it is because now smoking is even more widespread, particulalry in young people and particularly in girls. i.e. 30 years ago, 15% of girls under a certain age smoked. Now the percentage is... 40%.

IIRC We are #1 in the 15 EU countries in smoking, french and italians come next.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Azazel

I want blond chicks!

Okay, here's what you do: go to the drugstore, buy a bottle of peroxide and find yourself a (some, a lot of) chick(s).

Have fun!

[Ozz]

Originally posted by paiktis22
And my naive question is: why now? There were always people who smoked why is the cancer epidemic coming now?

Cause people aren't dieing of flu, TB, inflections, lockjaw
etc. anymore, we live long enough to get cancer.

Smoking isn't the only cause. It's your food, it's not as good as it used to be.

The taste and nutrinents of a 1930's tomato for example were after higher than now, todays tomato does'nt burse as easily and is redder. And of course
the pesticide residue.

Same for meat, grain fed livestock (corn is the worse)
don't produce as good meats (white fat, bad) as
pasture fed (yellow/gold fat, good)

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


there was a proposal some time back to ban certain unpastureurized cheeses aged fro more that a certain period, IIRC it was stopped. The risks involved are quite small. It is certainly possible to get a French Camembert in the US, though i havent purchased any lately

Any unpastureurized cheese under sixty days old cannot be imported into the United States. Camembert and Brie are supposed to be eaten very young. So we can't get true Camemberts in the US unless you live close to the Canadian border.

[Az]

I think that generally, french cheeses rock.

[alva]

Cause people aren't dieing of flu, TB, inflections, lockjaw
etc. anymore, we live long enough to get cancer.

I don't think you meant this literraly, but quite a lot of people(western world) die of the flu/tb/infections each year. What's lockjaw btw?

But in spirit you are right...

[Ozz]

Originally posted by alva
What's lockjaw btw?

Tedinus, A blood poisioning usually by a cut by a rusty
iron object. Causes Lockjaw, which the jaw muscules
lock shut. Sudden loud noises and sudden lighting
changes will kill the inflected person. Not many people
ever survived lockjaw (BTW my fatherinlaw survived it)

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Any unpastureurized cheese under sixty days old cannot be imported into the United States. Camembert and Brie are supposed to be eaten very young. So we can't get true Camemberts in the US unless you live close to the Canadian border.

are you sure?

I am pretty sure what I bought said it was Camembert

Jon Miller

[Spiffor]

I'm pretty sure the so-called Camemberts I've seen in the US had nothing to do with what you find in France The name is the same, there are some analogies in taste, but it is very different because the Camembert (like all stinking cheeses) takes its distinctive flavour from the lack of pasteurization.