Subject:  Re Smoking may prevent breast cancer..... (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 20 May 1998 084526 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Wolfgang:

Thank you for your commentary.  I tend to agree with your "sentiments."
Let's hope that some one -- the liquor industry perhaps -- will
commission a study to prove that martinis prevent prostate cancer....

Cheerio....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:31:56 +0000
From: "Wolfgang W. Scherer" 
Reply-To: w-m-a@reach.net
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Re: Smoking may prevent breast cancer.....

Dear Roy

don't despair  it is only another "purposed" statistic. With such 
results published in this wording one wonders what the tobacco 
industry will do , maybe that is one reason why some talks fell 
apart. They got such study first - maybe they commissioned it !!.

There have been medicinal applications of NICOTINE  (even tar) for a 
long time. And current methodes of non smoking campaigns use 
alternate delivery of the toxin. Did such women have reduced risk 
too.

However, the study should also have stated how many of the "tested"
women may have had residue of "pot" in their blood. ( Like our 
Canadian snow board athlete). Many smokers use this drug regularly -  
as I observed  -  despite the legal implications in the US and 
Canada.  IT MAY NOT BE THE "TOBACCO" AT ALL

But the results AS PRESENTED  "smell"  badly - no responsible or 
sensitive scientist would have used such statistics and wording this 
way. It would have been enough if they only would have stated the 
residue levels of drugs or chemicals in the blood - but this was 
not even done - this "research"  is a simple head count jumping to 
irresponsible conclusion without real evidence.

Why did they not ask who the women voted for  -  this could have 
given similar results. with  "pure statistics" -  ( I know my math )

This "study" sounds like a  late attempt of a  'white wash' for 
the tobacco industry -  even an endorsement for smoking. Maybe the 
death from lung cancer is better than from breast cancer. Who has 
evaluated this difference and who paid for such "re-search" ?????..

Greetings
Wolfgang
Wolfgang W. Scherer
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