To put it simple (I like it simple). Smoking is plain stupidity. There many reasons why it is stupid. My personal life span is one example. You have listed several others.
It is also an environmental problem. But not because of global heating. The impact on global heating is similar to the impact of a mouse fart. The environmental problem is in pesticides used when growing the tobacco. The other problem is all the chemicals used in making the end product. But those chemicals have no known impact on global heating. As I said. Bash on. I don't feel uncomfortable with it at all. But please do it in a thread unrelated to the global heating issue. Title the thread Tim is a liar and thief if you want to ;-) Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom C Sent: 29. desember 2006 02:22 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Doomsday is coming upon us? >Aren't we going OT now? > >I have an urge to say that I don't feel that my smoking habits are the real >issue. To me, this seems like a smokescreen (pun intended) cowering the >real >debate. > >But by all means, bash on if you feel uncomfortable debating. > > >Tim How can you go OT on an OT? :-) Actually I think Bill's point is relevant. Why? Because we tend to view our own behavior as acceptable and normal and expect others to do the changing. However when the finger points back at us, we're uncomfortable. While little old you smoking X cigarettes a day may have a negligible effect on pollution on a global scale (just like other single persons taking long showers or driving gas-guzzling SUV's), it has a much larger effect when we shrink the picture down a little or when we look at the cumulative effect. Your behavior is clearly dichotomous... Wanting to save the planet while at the same time almost assuredly shortening the time span of your existence on it, both lessening your time to enjoy it and the time you might have to make a difference. The cost in health care and missed productivity due to smoking related ailments is huge. Next calculate how much time and energy (human and fossil fuel) is wasted annually in an industry that essentially provides a delivery method for a drug that induces a slow suicide. Then there's the smoking mothers whose babies may have future health issues and possible lower IQ's, putting a bigger drain on health care and education systems. I'm not bashing you. I'm not criticizing you. You work in the social welfare field though and are sure aware of the implications of one's personal behavior. OK, I just had to get that little one in. :-) Tom C. > > On 12/28/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Tim Øsleby" Subject: RE: Doomsday is coming upon us? > >> > >> > >>> Agreed. That's why I smoke outside rain or cold. You could argue > >>> that I > >>> pollute the environment. That's true, but I don't think it is > >>> significant. > >> > >> Tim, this is pretty much the argument that you have been on the > >> other side > >> of. > >> No one person makes a significant impact, so why should any one > >> person > >> change their habits, be it driving a large vehicle, taking long > >> hot showers > >> or whatever else they do that is environmentally harmful? > >> > >> William Robb > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >DagT > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
