Comments on: Smoking Bans Cut Heart Attacks By Up To A Quarter

By: Dr. Lao

Dr. Lao — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:26:06 +0000

More of Big Government telling you what to do. Our freedoms are being taken away bit-by-bit. These same anti-tobacco lunatics are the same idiots who go running on a 95 degree day during a 3rd stage smog alert beside the highway. And let’s not mention all the toxins we breath every day in our own homes.

Oh, and I’m a non-smoker. Why isn’t anyone beating up on the fat and obese?

By: Lady Helena Handbasket

Lady Helena Handbasket — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:16:17 +0000

It’s called a meta-analysis seefish3, it’s how good science is done. Whether this one is good science or not I don’t know, but yours is not a valid criticism.

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:05:08 +0000

“By lumping 11 studies together…”

That’s reassuringly professional!

By: John A

John A — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:13:03 +0000

Yes, the data was, well, manipulated. Or would have been if the reported study actually existed…

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7451/
“Although The Sunday Times claimed a 10 per cent drop in heart attacks, nowhere in the 500 word article was a source mentioned and no one was quoted giving this figure. The ‘study’ the newspaper referred to does not exist, and the anti-smoking pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) – not renowned for downplaying the risks of passive smoking – went to the unusual lengths of posting a notice on its website the following day to point out that ‘the figures reported in The Sunday Times yesterday (and now circulating elsewhere) are not based on any research conducted to date’”

Several other studies showing supposed benefits are listed – and debunked – in the article in Spiked.

There may have been an effect, but not to the extent this supposed “study” purported to find. More likely so small as to be “statistically insignificant.”

By: c0ldfish

c0ldfish — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:14:39 +0000

i go to the university of kansas, smoke, and support smoking bans

By: hslch

hslch — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:23:59 +0000

Is this really what passes for scientific inference these days? This can quite readily be attributed to a joint effect yet that does not seem to be well vetted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause

By: TIMM

TIMM — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:38:18 +0000

Caveman has it right.

The number of factors involved and the evidence to support such a claim is almost impossible to track. Not to mention that a study of this magnitude would take several decades before a conclusion could be drawn.

Research studies are bought and paid for by people/organizations with something to gain. Scientific researchers are whores.

By: GailW

GailW — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:51:57 +0000

Hurray for Smoking Bans!

By: Ant Dude

Ant Dude — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:29:15 +0000

“You must be a member to access this content.”

By: V

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:24:57 +0000

They also cut freedom 100%

By: luvpumpkns

luvpumpkns — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:04:56 +0000

despite the accutacies of these studies, i doubt it will change the minds of people(including myself) that feel that the owners of private establishments should be able to choose whether or not they want to go non-smoking.

By: caveman

caveman — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:52:41 +0000

So they chose those studies that corroborated their point and discarded the ones that didn’t?

By: Jon Doe

Jon Doe — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:20:06 +0000

Idiots.

By: generalsn

generalsn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:31:02 +0000

No one ever knew how healthy it is to smoke outdoors.

By: Lady Helena Handbasket

Lady Helena Handbasket — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:02:12 +0000

Brilliant idea, dutchboy. We could also scrap speed limits on roads, ban airbags, ban motorbike helmets, cut mandatory murder sentences, dissolve the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Authority and the Center for Disease Control, scrap safety checks on airplanes and issue guns to all 10-year-olds. Think of the savings. We could solve the global recession and the overpopulation problem at a stroke. I just wonder why nobody thought of it before.

By: dutchboy

dutchboy — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:26:26 +0000

But I thought the world was overpopulated anyhow, wouldnt it be better for mother earth to stop the jihad against smoking.

By: FishBottleT

FishBottleT — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:27:20 +0000

This is good news. I am not a smoker myself but have friends that are. I am happy to hear that they are confirming that facts that second hand smoke is a health risk.