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Transplant Surgery Now Useful For Anti | Steve Cross
Article Published: 2010/01/06
Last week CNN reported on a British Corporal who died after a lung transplant. The headline of their article was "Why transplants use imperfect organs" [stored] after it was revealed the British soldier was given the lungs from a doctor who smoked.
They do not attempt to define what "perfect organs" would be, so from the headline and subsequent news report we can only presume that perfect organs come from non smokers and imperfect ones come from smokers.
Once again we see an anti smoking message flashed around the world in an attention grabbing headline without a single shred of evidence that smoking had anything to do with this tragedy.
Public Health Ignorance | Steve Cross
Article Published: 2009/11/22
Forces International columnist Pat Nurse attended a meeting last week to complain about a graphically violent UK National Health Service video that showed a smoker being beaten to death.
There were many things about the video and the NHS response that were disturbing in a so called civilised society and Pat's report of the meeting covers them well, but there is one particular myth they offered to excuse their use of violent discrimination that deserves more attention.
The Failure That Is NRT | Steve Cross
Article Published: 2009/04/13
Nicotine replacement therapy, like virtually every aspect of the antitobacco crusade, is essentially a fraud.
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