Laughing Boy wrote:
] Vile wrote:
] ] Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] ] Nanochick wrote:
] ] ] ] ] An experimental vaccine wiped out lung cancer in some
] ] ] ] ] patients and slowed its spread in others in a small
] but
] ] ] ] ] promising study, researchers say.
] ] ] ]
] ] ] ]
] ] ] ] [wow...thats awesome. -nano]
] ] ]
] ] ] indeed it is. now they just need to figure out a vaccine
] ] that
] ] ] wipes out smoking - the #1 cause of lung cancer, and they
] ] will
] ] ] really be on to something!
] ]
] ] F**k that! I like cigarettes. Get rid of the lung cancer,
] and
] ] we can smoke safely.
]
] Yea you’re right - never mind emphysema, bronchitis, high
] blood pressure, low birth weight, asthma, heart disease,
] stroke, pneumonia, (shall I continue?) not to mention the
] myriad of OTHER cancers that have been linked to smoking. Get
] rid of lung cancer and you'll have nothing to worry about! :)
]
]
] ] BTW, pollution and contamination of
] ] drinking water are probably worse.
]
] WORSE??? Apparently we can chalk up one more thing attributed
] to smoking - chronic stupidity. Please don't make me
] bitch-slap you with statistics. Lung cancer is CLEARLY
] several magnitudes more prevalent in smokers than non-smokers.
] Pollution and drinking water? Sure. How many NON-smokers
] have you met that came down with lung cancer vs. smokers?
] Sure it happens, but a hell of a lot more frequently in
] smokers (and we won’t even get into how many cases in
] non-smokers are possibly caused by 2’nd hand smoke).
]
] ] IF you don't like smoking,
] ] then don't smoke. And if you don't like seeing others
] smoke,
] ] then kill yourself.
]
] I’ve no problem with smokers so long as my family doesn’t have
] to breathe that shit too. I just wish the tobacco companies
] were not being held accountable for billions of dollars in
] lawsuits for people’s stupidity “What? I have cancer from
] smoking 2 packs a day for 30 years?” Of course not dip-shit –
] it’s the water. All that wheezing and coughing and hacking up
] a lung every morning was your body’s way of telling you
] “everything is A-OK – light up!”
]
] And in regards to the “kill yourself” remark…
] http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html
]
] Function impaired in smokers -
] Sperm count reduced
] Sperm motility impaired
] Sperm less able to penetrate the ovum
] Sperm shape abnormalities increased
]
]
] One word for you - Darwin.
]
] LB

So I memed this article because I am intruiged by the thought of a vaccine that may help lung cancer. I in no way intended to start an all out brawl about the evils of smoking. I am a smoker, but thats not why I memed this. I memed this for the science....not the therapy for smoking:) - Nano

RE: CNN.com - Vaccine halts lung cancer in small study - Feb. 19, 2004