tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post4470066558095080825..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Government to encourage smokingChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-5881172146378634432009-09-22T11:54:11.824+01:002009-09-22T11:54:11.824+01:00Quite right, anon. I was very tired when I wrote t...Quite right, anon. I was very tired when I wrote that!Christopher Snowdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-66167796160970748502009-09-22T11:00:51.736+01:002009-09-22T11:00:51.736+01:00I think you mean "verboten", German for ...I think you mean "verboten", German for "forbidden", not the Latin "verbatim" meaning "using exactly the same words".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-78370635880924588142009-09-22T10:50:58.403+01:002009-09-22T10:50:58.403+01:00I've done a bit more debunking of the fake sta...I've done a bit more debunking of the <a href="http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2009/09/fun-with-numbers-nhs-stop-smoking.html" rel="nofollow">fake statistics</a> put out by NHS Stop Smoking Services, if you're interested.<br /><br />Also, you'll be pleased to hear that the Yanks have claimed a smoking ban reduces heart attacks by "up to 30%"!Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-31243043215519555582009-09-22T02:43:22.280+01:002009-09-22T02:43:22.280+01:00It is now almost 60 years since Doll and Hill publ...<i>It is now almost 60 years since Doll and Hill published their first study showing the link between lung cancer and smoking </i><br /><br />It didn't show any link at all, except to the likes of the credulous Richard Doll, and the equally credulous George Godber.<br /><br />True, 99% of the hospital patients with lung cancer were smokers. But, in the <a href="http://frank-davis.livejournal.com/5041.html" rel="nofollow">London Hospitals study</a> of 1950, fully 98% of the patients in both the control and study group were smokers. So, if smoking had no effect either way on whether people got lung cancer or not, it would have been expected that 98% of lung cancer patients would have been smokers, simply because they comprised 98% of the population.<br /><br />The patients in the London hospitals were probably nearly all Londoners as well as being nearly all smokers. But nobody ever much suggested that living in London caused lung cancer.<br /><br />This also was the study which Sir Ronald Fisher used to show that inhaling tobacco smoke had a protective effect against lung cancer.Frank Davishttp://frank-davis.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com