Smoking blamed for too many ills

Before buying into Rob "Meathead" Reiner's spin on smoking, remember when almost everyone used to smoke and almost everyone was exposed to secondhand smoke in closed rooms?

Where are the bodies?

Fewer and fewer people smoke and lung cancer is (still) on the rise.

Japan has some of the heaviest smokers in the world and they do not have the lung cancer rate, not even close, that we do. They don't have the death rate either.

I will never say smoking is good for you, but secondhand smoke cannot be detected in the blood on a paramed exam, yet such an exam could detect one cigarette in the last 30 days.

It's not the smokers, but it could be the chemicals in your food and water, poor diet, lack of nutrition in modern food--not to mention the chemical feast--chlorine in your water, smog in the air, etc., all of which expose you to so much more toxicity than walking by someone who is smoking a cigarette.

Follow the money on who says what before you reach any conclusions.

Remember who paid for the bogus "eggs are bad for you" study and everyone jumped on that bandwagon?

The cereal industry paid for that scam.
Ann Telling
Thousand Oaks