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Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 12:47 PM BST1 in 5 lung cancers have nothing to do with smoking. If he smoked a cigar, it's very unlikely that it contributed to his demise, inhaling is very rare along with chain smoking.
Was at a party last night chatting to a girl who smoked menthol cigarettes, she freaked when I told her they were about to be banned thanks to the EU.
My mum is a researcher into respiratory illnesses so naturally meets a lot of smokers. Her view is that smoking by itself doesn't actually cause cancer - it just doesn't help any genetic suseptability you might have. Lots of smokers will live their lives as healthily as a non-smoker.
Evidence would also suggest the fewer than 10 a day doesn't actually do that much harm ( without the genetic component).
The real killer is COPD - a horrible, debilitating illness.
When you feel sick all weekend, only to start feeling better in time for work Monday.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 1:58 PM BSTMy mum is a researcher into respiratory illnesses so naturally meets a lot of smokers. Her view is that smoking by itself doesn't actually cause cancer - it just doesn't help any genetic suseptability you might have. Lots of smokers will live their lives as healthily as a non-smoker.
Wow, that is certainly a narrative you never hear on the smoking debates. You Mum better keep it to herself, we don't want another Dr. David Kelly on our hands.
Speaking of which, some twunt on Facebook just wished Happy Mother's Day to his dead mother who is dead. If only she'd lived long enough to see his meaningless tribute on Facebook, but she didn't, because she's dead.
This was then swiftly followed by the message: 'Happy Mother's Day to the mothers who are no longer with us'.
Has everyone on Planet Earth gone stark raving frikking arsed bonkers lately?
I'm sure if you search hard enough you can find it in your heart to think generously of someone who has lost their mum, Renegade. I am sure they are very aware that their mother isn't here to read it.
My friend lost her mum last year from lung cancer. Never smoked in her life and she died within 3 months of diagnosis. She was 51. My friend's status simply reads "be nice to your mum today. And every day."
On that note, I'm going to ring mine.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 1:58 PM BSTMy mum is a researcher into respiratory illnesses so naturally meets a lot of smokers. Her view is that smoking by itself doesn't actually cause cancer - it just doesn't help any genetic suseptability you might have. Lots of smokers will live their lives as healthily as a non-smoker.
Evidence would also suggest the fewer than 10 a day doesn't actually do that much harm ( without the genetic component).
The real killer is COPD - a horrible, debilitating illness.
What I have always maintained and thank you for that insight.
I know of two instances of smokers living to 100+.
On the other side of the coin, I had a friend who was a pipe-smoker who inhaled it as you would a cigarette and died a year ago of emphysema - he could barely walk a few feet before he was totally out of breath. Horrible, as you say.
Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 5:26 PM BSTI'm sure if you search hard enough you can find it in your heart to think generously of someone who has lost their mum, Renegade.
Empathy? On the internet?
Tiredness 
Quote: Hannah G @ 30th March 2014, 6:52 PM BSTTiredness
Tell me about it........I work and look after my disabled wife.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 30th March 2014, 7:18 PM BSTTell me about it........I work and look after my disabled wife.
Awww 
It's so horrible, you can't do anything when you're really tired.
And it always makes me feel down.
Bath and bed very very soon for me I think...
Quote: Jennie @ 30th March 2014, 5:26 PM BSTI'm sure if you search hard enough you can find it in your heart to think generously of someone who has lost their mum, Renegade. I am sure they are very aware that their mother isn't here to read it.
Yeah, that kind of emotional blackmail only works if I had sympathy for those who have to proclaim some sort of uselessly grandstanding and narcissistically fuelled tribute to a lost relative because they're wracked with guilt due to being such a rubbish son or daughter in the first place.
Speaking of guilt, if the only time people express concern for a close family member, such as a mother, is when they are publicly shamed on social networks, then it says more about their own selfishness and lack of compassion then anything else.
But why stop at Facebook or Twitter? Why not go into the woods and tell a tree 'Happy Mother's Day to my dead Mum'? Or perhaps they could write it on the side of a firework, so when they launch it, it's that much closer to Jesus' house? Or maybe most efficiently of all, they could find a very windy place, like the top of the mountain, and piss against it.
The irony is that I'm so surprised by the hypocritical displays of such mawkishly overly sentimental bullshit on a day that was created specifically to cater for mawkishly overly sentimental bullshit.
Oh boo, you're being mean Renegade. It's better than being bloody mental.
Can we have a special day where RCP explodes with rage?
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 8:12 PM BSTYeah, that kind of emotional blackmail only works if I had sympathy for those who have to proclaim some sort of uselessly grandstanding and narcissistically fuelled tribute to a lost relative because they're wracked with guilt due to being such a rubbish son or daughter in the first place.
Speaking of guilt, if the only time people express concern for a close family member, such as a mother, is when they are publicly shamed on social networks, then it says more about their own selfishness and lack of compassion then anything else.
But why stop at Facebook or Twitter? Why not go into the woods and tell a tree 'Happy Mother's Day to my dead Mum'? Or perhaps they could write it on the side of a firework, so when they launch it, it's that much closer to Jesus' house? Or maybe most efficiently of all, they could find a very windy place, like the top of the mountain, and piss against it.
The irony is that I'm so surprised by the hypocritical displays of such mawkishly overly sentimental bullshit on a day that was created specifically to cater for mawkishly overly sentimental bullshit.
Oh boo, you're being mean Renegade. It's better than being bloody mental.
I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with RC. I'm not sure where this puts my mental state of mind...it's worrying quite frankly.
Quote: roscoff @ 30th March 2014, 8:24 PM BSTI find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with RC. I'm not sure where this puts my mental state of mind...it's worrying quite frankly.
Agreeing with what? That everyone who posts a message to their dead Mum is in some way a hypocrite, a bad child whilst they were alive, mental and a narcissist? Yes, that is quite worrying.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 8:12 PM BSTYeah, that kind of emotional blackmail only works if I had sympathy for those who have to proclaim some sort of uselessly grandstanding and narcissistically fuelled tribute to a lost relative because they're wracked with guilt due to being such a rubbish son or daughter in the first place.
Now whatever I think of your arguments, they are usually logical RCP. This is illogical. You cannot assume that someone referencing a dead parent on the day set aside for thinking about a parent is in some way driven by guilt due to being a rubbish son or daughter.
That is a massive assumption and makes no sense. You usually make sense. I'm disappointed. I find that far more offensive than the point you're trying to make.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 8:12 PM BSTSpeaking of guilt, if the only time people express concern for a close family member, such as a mother, is when they are publicly shamed on social networks, then it says more about their own selfishness and lack of compassion then anything else.
Well, if they only remember and grieve for their parent by putting it on Facebook, then yes. But who says that is the case? Why would that be the case? How do you know? More illogical assumptions.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 30th March 2014, 8:12 PM BST
But why stop at Facebook or Twitter? Why not go into the woods and tell a tree 'Happy Mother's Day to my dead Mum'? Or perhaps they could write it on the side of a firework, so when they launch it, it's that much closer to Jesus' house? Or maybe most efficiently of all, they could find a very windy place, like the top of the mountain, and piss against it.
Good point. Why bother with any ceremony post death? The person is dead, nothing we can do, lets just toss them into a incinerator and get on with it. No point having a funeral or a coffin or flowers or any of that crap.
Some hospitals put stillborn babies into the waste plants with all the other biological waste. Baby isn't alive to complain, are they?
Personally, if talking to a tree/launching a firework/posting on FB makes a person who has lost a relative feel a bit less shit, I am all for it. There is always a "hide post" button if it offends you.