This is too ridiculous to even comment on, so I’ll just let the image do the talking and provide a link:
http://www.starcitynews.com/cigarettes-a-secondary-cause-of-global-warming/1566
The entire evidence for the title of the linked news story above:
Smoking produces two green house gasses that are altering our atmosphere and are directly related to climate change; it is just one more challenge for the world to over come.
Tune in next week when birthday cake candles are blamed for global warming because they produce carbon dioxide and soot.
h/t to WUWT reader Tom T
FULL DISCLOSURE: Both of my parents died from smoking related illness, so if anybody wants to suggest that I support smoking because of this post, leave it unsaid. – Anthony
John S says:
October 12, 2010 at 8:29 pm
When are there going to be calls to ban carbonated soft drinks, because they release “greenhouse gasses?”
(Or have they already, but I just missed it?)
John – Actually, in the processs of canning, the bottling company is sequestering CO2. By opening the carbonated soft drink can/bottle, you are violating the bottling company’s carbon sequestration scheme. There must be a felony associated with such nefarious behavior. I’ll try to arrange a suitable criminal defense team for you.
<];o)
@Tain says:
“All that being said, tobacco is, IMHO, just awful stuff. If you are going to smoke that stuff, you should be responsible for all your health care costs. If you choose to smoke, it should cancel any health insurance coverage you have. The rest of us should not be forced to pay for your choice.”
So if you drink excessively, drive while drinking at all, drive while using a cell phone, speed ever, don’t exercise adequately/don’t have a healthy diet, do your own electrical or roof repairs, ride a motorcycle/bicycle on city streets, ride on a 4-wheeler, have a loaded gun in the house, you should cancel your health insurance as you are boosting risk of insurance costs for the rest of us….Just how far do we want to take this….
Actually people who don’t have health insurance get treated anyway, then many can’t pay, which boosts the premiums for the rest of us. Another factor was the 1980’s deregulation of the insurance companies which encouraged many more companies for the same customer base with the attendant higher per person risk followed by discretionary selection/disallowing preconditions and cancellations for expensive treatments, which are primary reasons most can’t afford or obtain health insurance.
Can we just get a list of the things that do not cause global warming? According to what the alarmists keep telling us, that would be a much more manageable list.
Found this on a non-sarcastic page for students. Behold:
“Another major man-made cause of Global Warming is population.”
http://library.thinkquest.org/J003411/causes.htm
by
Oracle ThinkQuest Education Foundation.
I’ll be enjoying a big fat cigar after work, I think you should all join me.
So can the plural of gas be written as either “gasses” or “gases”? Spell checker indicates they are both correct.
Also, cigarettes DO cause global warming. There’s heat released and technically the gases do absorb some extra IR. I think almost anyone in their right mind would say that the amount of warming is completely insignificant though.
Actually…maybe they don’t cause warming. If I remember right, aerosol apportionment studies show that in some urban environments smoking can lead to a significant (1-2%) fraction of the total aerosol. Perhaps the increase in aerosol loading causes enough cooling to offset any warming? Oh, and we’ll need to add in the CO2 consumed by the tobacco and also the CO2 generated in manufacturing and shipping. Oh, and don’t forget the other volatile organics in all those processes too. 🙂
-Scott
“Chuck says:
October 12, 2010 at 9:33 pm
What are they smoking?
Gore Lites!”
🙂
Does this also apply to all that smoke from that other ‘greenstuff’. The greenies, hippies and enviromentalists like to puff on? Or just another dig at ‘evil’ tobacco?
The dope smoke is exempt from CO2 emissions and reducing carbon footprints I take it then?
You’ve hit the nail in the head. Smoking is dangerous for the smoker, but there is no proven danger in second-hand smoke. But you have to read the papers (which I did, and came out amazed with the results), not the newspapers. The second-hand smoke campaign was successful because nobody would dare question it, as (most) smokers feel guilty about it. Etc. etc. etc., there would be lots to say. For instance, nobody knows what a “smoking related illness” or a “smoking related death” are! There are no definitions for these, hence counts cannot be made (you can’t decide if it is or isn’t), just statistical guesses. The danger of second-hand smoke causing cancer is similar to that of Radon inhalation, a gas emitted by granite that accumulates in basements and floor level rooms. And, as I said, etc etc etc
From amicus curiae on October 13, 2010 at 3:41 am:
I’ve done something like that before:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/29/perhaps-the-stupidest-article-ive-ever-seen/#comment-419588
Here’s a snippet:
“Go organic” by getting rid of the phosphate fertilizers and, if the relation holds true, the cancer rate will drop.
Carbon Credits for sale! Give me € 100,000 in a brown paper bag and I won’t mow my lawn next summer. Pay me only € 50,000 and I’ll mow it, but with an electric mower instead of one with an awful petrol engine.
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“Pops says:
October 12, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Didn’t algore once claim that cigarette smoking is a major cause of global warming?”
Well, is there anything that lunatic HASN’T claimed?
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“JER0ME says:
October 13, 2010 at 7:17 am
BFL says:
October 12, 2010 at 8:10 pm
It would be interesting to see cancer and emphysema rates among organic and non-organic tobacco users compared.
I agree. I switched back to by old-time habit of rolling my own ‘last time’ I took up smoking because the tobacco therein has fewer chemicals and made me cough less. You do get awful yellow fingers, though.
I finally packed it in for the third time in 15 years when my 6-year-old daughter started imitating me with pencils and the like, and I hope this is the very last time I have to give the damn stuff up. The stupid thing is I never enjoyed it much overall.”
Well, they say quitting smoking is good for you; so why not do it over and over again?
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“JER0ME says:
October 13, 2010 at 7:20 am
amicus curiae says:
October 13, 2010 at 3:41 am
Tobacco is the ONLY product that somehow manages to NOT have to include an ingredients list on the pack- world wide.
now why? is that so:-)
and alcoholic beverages, strangely”
Those goods are not sold as food and therefore not labelled as food, I think.
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“idlex says:
October 13, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Both of my parents died from smoking related illness
Are there any diseases which aren’t smoking related? Heck, it’s even a risk factor for toenail fungus.”
Are there any diseases that are EXCLUSIVELY caused by smoking?