quittin' smoking

[Adam Rixey]

On 3/14/06, Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> smoking and 75,000 killed by flu alone). Really, I'm not trying to
> present a ridiculous case here. I'm really just wondering why the
> *less* significant threat receives so much more attention than the
> *more* significant threat.

That's actually pretty common to blow up statistically insignificant
events into overhyped paranoia.  Shark attacks.  Myspace sexual
assaults.  Terrorist attacks.  SARS nee Bird flu.  The media and the
government go nuts for these things that none of us will ever
experience.

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Adam Rixey
arixey at gmail.com