smoke

There seems to be a sentiment echoing through some TAM threads: a desire for a non-smoking hangout during the off-hours. Most of us seem keen to socialize, but find it difficult to endure the punishment of second-hand smoke. We need a smoke-free Del Mar. Ideally, the good people of Vegas will...

Can anyone explain to me what the deal is with this new meme among Truthers where they deny the existence of fires in pictures that show a great deal of smoke? Is this some new denial tactic? Some new persuasive techniques? Are they just playing games to get on our nerves? Is it a desperate...

WTC fires, thick black smoke. Claimed by troofers to indicate low temperature and lack of oxygen. http://www.infowars.com/images2/world/madrid_%20wtc_fires.jpg (Image linked from infowars.com without permission. @#$% you, Alex Jones. :p ) Buncefield Oil Terminal Fire, December 11, 2005. Thick...

In this video Dave VonKleist attempts to resolve the question concerning the white cloud of smoke that appears behind WTC 7. He obtained the CNN video and concludes the white cloud of smoke was the result of WTC 2 falling. I think VonKleist is wrong. The white cloud is the result of an explosion...

Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs noticed something a bit odd in a Reuters' photograph this weekend: The questioned image, taken by Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj, depicts a quite obviously cloned photo showing smoke rising from Israeli air-strikes on Beirut. Hajj is...

Just found out there's apparently a Penn and Teller videogame called Smoke and Mirrors. Found precious little information about this on imdb.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251322/fullcredits Anyone know anything else about this? Might be fun!!

I have just seen the episode of Penn & Teller's B.S. where they rail against a guy in New York fighting for smoking bans. I'm not in total agreement with them, and they aired smokers using fallacies to argue against the bans, which seems foolish, but I know where they're coming from. For this...

At my parents' house, there was a smoke detector in the living room. If you burnt toast or bacon in the kitchen (two rooms away), the alarm would go off. And quite rightly, too. In the last house I lived in, there was one in the living room (one room from the kitchen) that went off every time...

Take a look at he coursework for a particular chiro school: http://www.nwhealth.edu/edprogr/chiro/acadres.html You'll note that there are in fact a few "legit" courses sprinkled here and there amidst the sea of quackery. A common mantra of chiros is that "we took the same courses real medical...

An article in UK tabloid the SunHere I like this quote at the end of the story We believe you.;)

More companies are taking action against employees who smoke off-duty, and, in an extreme trend that some call troubling, some are now firing or banning the hiring of workers who light up even on their own time. The outright bans raise new questions about how far companies can go in regulating...

I just read an artical in USA Today (hey, it was in the breakroom and more interesting than the Avon catalogue) that said there is a new study that shows a 90% risk increase of breast cancer among women exposed to secondhand smoke. Though I'm sure secondhsnd smoke isn't a good thing (I quit...

I heard an argument on talk radio not too long ago, and try as I might, I haven't found a hole in it. I want to present it here and see if anyone can say what's wrong with it. Right now, the taxes collected for Social Security are greater than the benefits paid out to recipients. The...

An interesting speech was made by the Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to a joint session of Congress. Comments?

...especially while riding. Story [/b]My first thought was the same as the young eyewitness quoted in the article: "Why didn't he stop, drop, and roll?" :j2:

As regards to The NCI Cancer Progress Report "The Report Card apart, there are disturbing questions on the reliability of NCI’s incidence statistics. This is well illustrated by wild reported variations since 1973 for the percent changes in the incidence of childhood cancer: 1973-1980...

The recent so called evidence of WMD, those two trailers used as evidence of a mobile biological weapon program have now been debunked here and here and here

Does anyone know what the studies of the relation of 2nd hand smoke and cancer say? Penn & Teller's show "◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊" is doing a show on it this week and the preview seems pretty surprising.