tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post1320313751976338453..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Stanton Glantz Produces A Study Which Proves Himself WrongDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-74372912553809774182015-06-28T00:04:15.904+01:002015-06-28T00:04:15.904+01:00I haven't done all the number crunching in thi...I haven't done all the number crunching in this specific case, but you are wrong that any acceleration in the rate of decline precludes a flattening curve; as the smoking rate shrinks, the absolute number of quitters gets smaller and smallerUrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-68764235016678730812015-06-27T01:23:16.897+01:002015-06-27T01:23:16.897+01:00What makes this all the more hilarious is that thi...What makes this all the more hilarious is that this new argument Stan has trotted out is pretty much a direct contradiction of everything he and his cohorts have been saying for the last 25 years.<br /><br />Up until 7-10 days ago, these people were constantly telling us how there's "no safe amount of smoking," that cutting your cigarette consumption doesn't do anyone any good, and that the only worthwhile goal is the complete eradication, by any means necessary, of all tobacco/nicotine use.<br /><br />Now, all of a sudden, they're drawing attention to the fact that the average smoker smokes about half as much as they once did (they used to routinely dismiss this fact as immaterial and utterly meaningless, by the rationale outlined above), and arguing that the supposed smoking epidemic (whose severity they've been serially overstating for the last several decades) is just going to sort itself out once a sufficient number of people have quit. Again, this is the complete opposite of the arguments they've held up for YEARS as unassailable orthodoxies.<br /><br />Their all-consuming zeal to destroy e-cigs and vaping has now compelled Stan and his merry band of morons to abandon the same dogmas that have hitherto formed the bedrock of the entire "tobacco control" movement. They used to just be crazy liars. Now they're crazy lying hypocrites.Natenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-62690343789821943112015-06-26T15:08:32.724+01:002015-06-26T15:08:32.724+01:00What's a wankwassock? To me, he bears a REMAR...What's a wankwassock? To me, he bears a REMARKABLE resemblance to that ol' Father of Lies -- portrayed so well in Don Henley's "Garden of Allah" -- "I am an expert witness, because I say I am -- I can get you any result you like; what's it worth to ya?" About $7 million a year? Long way from 30 pieces of silver or an apple in a garden!<br /><br />I can tell you for sure, if I had not discovered e-cigarettes, I would NEVER have quit -- at least not as long as I had the power to inhale. Only e-cigarettes have made quitting POSSIBLE -- even enjoyable! I had *negative* interest in the suffering entailed by quitting via any other method -- none of the other "methods" work, so you just make yourself and your family miserable, and then inevitably, fail yet again.<br /><br />I think those guys in San Francisco did entirely too many psychedelics, 50 yrs ago -- they seem to believe any absurdity that comes along, but ACTUAL FACTS, they're entirely ignorant of those. What's it going to take, to get rid of this lying venal idiot ONCE AND FOR ALL? The Big Quake? C'mon San Andreas, let's see you do the Twist!Andria Duncanhttp://angryvaper.crypticsites.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-13176795401820526532015-06-26T07:36:11.645+01:002015-06-26T07:36:11.645+01:00Can always count on that ignoramus Frampton Blands...Can always count on that ignoramus Frampton Blands to screw up. Perhaps he's been trying to draw aircraft wings again?Anonymous Vaperhttp://fdm.ukvaping.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-520443949437068432015-06-26T01:16:47.267+01:002015-06-26T01:16:47.267+01:00Glantz is a publicity hound, unfortunately only na...Glantz is a publicity hound, unfortunately only naivest of the MSM is fooled by his bogus proclamations. <br />The only thing that keeps him from going under is the free cash he gets from his buddy, Collins, who doles out taxpayer cash to this leech via the NIH.mntvernonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-13575443875311953772015-06-25T22:34:41.619+01:002015-06-25T22:34:41.619+01:00He's a man of rare talent. No wait... He's...He's a man of rare talent. No wait... He's a man who's rarely talented. I always mix that up.Entropynoreply@blogger.com