Smoking Bans? Why Not Football Bans?

Posted: December 14, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Personal Freedom, Personal Liberty, Smoking | Leave a comment »

An average smoker loses 11 minutes of life for every cigarette.

An average NFL football player loses 1,460 – 2,190 minutes of life for every minute of football played (if my calculations are correct).

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/football-decimation.html

Total indoor smoking ban and smoker behavior

Posted: December 13, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Smoking, Tobacco | Leave a comment »

“Conclusion. A total indoor smoking ban had little effect on overall institutional quit rates. Heavy smokers will, predictably, experience the greatest difficulty complying with a total indoor nonsmoking policy.”

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WPG-4BNG6BB-146&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1133868543&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1505e246bc555348c9547671a52bacdd

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