Hippies Banning Smoke

[James A. Donald]

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On 3 May 2003 at 10:01, Tyler Durden wrote:
> It gets easier when one remembers that cigarette smoke was
> inches away from being declared a "class A carcinogen", but
> the tobacco companies through much dinero into the debate.
> That would have put smoke in the same category as asbestos.
> So now replace a public smoker with a guy playing tossing
> around a big blob of asbestos, and watch various cypherpunks
> start taking out their shotguns.

Not this cypherpunk -- the evils of asbestos are ninety percent
hot air.

The superstitious and ignorant tend to believe in black magic
killers, invisible imperceptible causes of great harm, and
award colossal damages on that basis.  Supposedly biotechnology
will make the cows milk dry up.   In reality, if someone is
exposed to enough asbestos to be a problem, he is painfully
aware of it.  Only a minuscule minority among those now
receiving stupendous awards were exposed to that level of
asbestos. 

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