Cops "for" Cancer? Why law folk in favor of cancer? Cancer us law? Doesn't it kill whole body incl'dg head?
94976
Yeah, I think your're right.\n\nJesus said that the traditions of the elders make the word of God of none effect!
1060034
Sometimes treatment doesnt work. It didnt work on my dad, he passed away because of lung cancer.  But it did work for my mom, that is a breast cancer survivor.  So it's not up to us or the doctors who are the lucky ones that get to live.
1178570
Most definitely, but not in a paranoid sense. Its human nature, heirarchy, divine right. Humans are a crafty sort, when you group the crafty rich ones together, they realise how much they enjoy their lives walking (or in some cases steam rolling) over humanity. I personally believe that were all being slowly poisoned in one form or another, with the pharmaceutical companies and medical sector to benefit... check out knowmore.org and look at bayer and dow's track record alone... (The part about toxic/carcinogenic chemical legislation is scary) have a bucket and towel handy. But to answer your question less rhetoricaly, the over-population crisis is and has been slowly spiraling out of control without any form of boundaries. What better culprit than cancer to take care of that problem?  (oh, the rate of cancer a hundred years ago compared to now would definitely support that)
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You are right about the chemo and the radiation people are in a lot of pain and suffer from it but I have seen it go both ways Ive seen people go thru it and still die and there last months were just painful and not being able to do any last accomplishments. Then ive seen them go thru it all and live like they never had it. Its bad but anything with the medical profession is a gamble. My husband was diagnosed with cancer in his Liver as soon as they did the biopsy he passed away. I have seen a lot and heard a lot of this happening. They have killed a lot of people with the biopsy needle because they go thru the organ and not in it and it puts the cancer into the body. Good luck in making the right choices.
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You know what?  It doesn't cause me grief when I hear about tobacco users getting cancer, emphysema, or any other disease as a result of their tobacco use.  I figure they made the choice to use tobacco, and therefore they decided that they didn't care if they died a painful and horrific death.   I can't feel sorry for them, because they chose to do it to themselves.  It's their own fault that they got cancer or whatever disease.\n\nI feel the same way about alcoholics.  They chose to drink, so if they get cirrohsis of the liver, or whatever, it's not my problem.\n\nMy problem is when either of these groups, or any other group such as drug addicts, do something that affects my life.  \n\nI don't being around second-hand smoke, and don't think smokers should be allowed to smoke when there are others around.  If they want to kill themselves, fine.  Just don't force your habit upon me.\n\nI don't like having people drink and drive.  I think that, if someone is arrested for DUI, the punishments need to be much more severe.  They need a mandatory 1 year jail sentence, community service, and a lifetime requirement that any vehicle they drive be equipped with an interlock device.  Every vehicle in their household should be required to have special license plates that let the police know that a member of that household was arrested for DUI.  The police can stop that vehicle at anytime to check the driver.  If the person with the DUI drives without that interlock device, they will pay a fine of several thousand dollars, even if they weren't drinking at that time.  If there get arrested a second time for DUI, there will be a prison sentence of 5 years.  \n\nIf someone kills someone while drinking and driving, the sentence should be a death sentence or a life sentence in prison.  There is no excuse to drink and drive.\n\nYes, this would increase the prison population, but we'd have fewer people drinking and driving.
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nope .....cancer kills millions more , driving kills millions , murderers kill millions \n\nchicken flu killed 7 people worldwide i bet there has been more kills by pcs blowing up ...\n\ndont be scared its just to get your mind off the war ...!!!
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Yes Yes Yes 1,000,000 times YES!!!!\n\nAlready answered one like this today, but here goes again...\n\nIt is no worse than alcohol or tobacco,, both of which are LEGAL products.\n\nIt has NEVER caused even ONE death, ever.\n\nContrary to popular belief, it does NOT cause cancer, and it may actually have preventative effects.  (according to a recent study at UCLA, link below)\n\nIt should be legal for adults, just like alcohol and tobacco.\n\n"High" driving would likely still be a crime (even though a new study shows it is not a factor in driving accidents, link below) \n\nPot smokers are non-violent.  The most they'd do is eat all the food out of your fridge.\n\nMOST pot smokers can use it responsibly.  It is not physically addictive.  SOME people might become psychologically addicted, but these people are more susceptible to addiction and would likely become alcoholics or addicts of something else.\n\nThat enough reasons for everyone?
178824
Because they want to b1tch about something.   Seriously, smoking outside isn't going to give anyone cancer any more than that car they drive.  It's getting completely out of hand.
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A LONG TRAIL OF EVIDENCE LINKS CIGARETTE SMOKING TO LUNG CANCER\n\nAs someone who’s life has been touched by the tragic effects of cigarette smoking, I was saddened last week when the Supreme Court barred the FDA from regulating cigarettes. About 48 million adult Americans smoked cigarettes last year, according to the CDC. That’s one in four people, a fact that astonishes and alarms me. Why? Because this year an estimated 180,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States, and 90% of them will die within three years -- and 96% of these cancer victims are cigarette smokers.\n\n\nIs there a cause-and-effect connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer? Two years ago, I wrote my first columns for the Post Dispatch, explaining the scientific evidence that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, and that cigarette smoking is addictive. If these two points are indeed true, then cigarettes , so much a part of American life, are in fact an addictive deadly drug! In the hope of encouraging readers to urge congress to act, I am reprinting these columns. In today’s column we will follow the trail of evidence that proves clearly that smoking causes cancer. In next week’s column I will examine the evidence that smoking tobacco is addictive.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOINTING THE FINGER AT CIGARETTES\n\n\nThe long trail of evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer has its beginnings right here in St. Louis, at Washington University’s School of Medicine. In 1948 a young first-year medical student, Ernst Wynder, witnessed an autopsy of a man who had died of lung cancer, and noted the lungs were blackened. Curious, he looked into the background of the patient. There was no obvious exposure to air pollution, but the man’s wife revealed he had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for thirty years! Like a dog with a juicy bone, Wynder had found a puzzle that would occupy him much of his professional life, and despite much controversy, he never let go of it.\n\n\nOver the next two years, Wynder doggedly reviewed records to see if there were other cases linking cigarettes and lung cancer. He found that many lung cancer patients were smokers. Interviewing lung cancer patients and "control" patients with other cancers, far more cancer occurred among the smokers. Early in 1950 he published his results in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Comparing 649 lung cancer patients with 600 controls, he found lung cancer an incredible 40 times higher among smokers, with the risk of cancer increasing with the number of cigarettes smoked.\n\n\nLater that year, Richard Doll, a well known British scientist, reported an even more convincing finding linking smoking to lung cancer. Over a period of years, Doll had interviewed quite a large number of physicians, inquiring of each about their smoking habits -- then waited to see which ones developed lung cancer. Overwhelmingly, they were the smokers. Because it was not "after the fact", Doll’s test of the smoking causes cancer hypothesis was particularly rigorous and powerful. From that day forward, the scientific case linking smoking to lung cancer has been clear-cut.
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Billions of Dollars is spent worldwide to treat people with mental disabilities and cancer and other diseases caused by drugs. What is the point in legalizing them and kill more people?? Even drug addiction affects the offsprings or your children and their children.\n\nAlso the smoking cigarettes, cigars; I would recommend to be banned.
711842
My best friend and I have this conversation quite often. It doesn't make much sense to me either. Cigarettes cause emphysema, bronchitis, lung cancer, etc. As far as alcohol goes, how many people have killed others while driving drunk? Not to mention alcohol poisoning, liver damage, stomach problems, etc. Yet, weed, the most harmful of the three is the only one illegal. Someone should explain that to me......
90414
I knew all of the risks involved in smoking and started anyway because I simply just wanted to fit in.  Stupid I know, but I am proud to say that I quit smoking 2 years ago.  I also lost someone close to me to cancer.  It was my mother and she died of colon cancer.  She never smoked a day in her life.  Some people die from lung cancer and never smoke either.  Smoking is a highly addictive drug.  Even though people know what could happen to them, they just don't care anymore because the nicotine has control of them.  Its sad, but true.
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Sweety, pardon my ignorance but is the USMLE a medical student test or something? Since no one else has answered your question, I'm going to have to apply my legal knowledge as I see it. I'm an ex-cop, not a lawyer but I can tell you that if it is illegal, the truth is, that they probably won't do much about it since the internet is so vast, it's nearly impossible to find all of the sites which post the information. In my view, unethical; yes, illegal; not sure but I'll try to find out, stopping it; no way. I personally like to pass test on my own intelligence but some people just don't care how they do it. It's damned wrong! But, internet policing is not so easy. =) email me with the exact name of the test so I can do some research. rilti8@sbcglobal.net.
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NO  This is something society is pushing around. Do this and do that and this will happen. Heck no one ever knows what will happen or when.\n  Children out of the womb have cancer, from parents who did not smoke, my great grandparents and grandparents lived to very rich old ages with no cancers of any kind and they smoked, quite a bit actually. Those that I know that never smoked a day  in their lives are running around with one cancer afer another.\n It is the enviroment.\n Sorry didn't mean to sound off, but I get so upset with the self righteous behavior and attitudes in this world. Always trying to tell me and others what we should or should not do.
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no..it is illegal in every state under federal law. If you start a med. marijuan cooperative, Bush's DoJ will bust in and throw all the terminally ill cancer patients in jail.
1174173
That is sooo true.  It's the law.  Life's a b*tch and then you die.  \n\nSigh :-(
164078
if they make cigarettes that cause cancer and harm fetuses do to mothers smoking while they are pregnant and that is legal than I really don't see the harm in legalizing pot. besides have you ever heard of somone getting cancer from pot?