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...Canada have more than a passing interest in the future President of the U.S. Please elect the type of individual who will represent the spirit of freedom of choice for all. Why do the American people continue to be inundated with secondhand intellects in the theater of American politics...
...Certainly, the press coverage is inadequate simply because reporters often take things secondhand and we very seldom see reporters are neighborhoods meetings and subcommittee meetings," Duehay said...
...perhaps we should fight the problem head on. An extremely potent health argument could be made about the harm this is causing the uncelled in the form of, well, secondhand noise. It makes me very tense to be around someone who's calling the office from the train when he should be napping like the rest of us. My blood pressure goes into the red zone when I hear a cell person honk, "Hello! Wha--? Hello! Are you there? Hello!" especially when I know good and well that they lost their connection five minutes ago, only they haven't shut...
...with the secondhand noise attack. We'll cook up some medical research that "proves" we're at risk. Then we'll find a cell-phoneless lobbyist, should one exist, generate some sympathetic press and maybe get a website ihatecellphones.com is still available). Next we launch a campaign for designated no-cell-phone areas in public places. That's right, put all the cell shouters at tables in the back of the restaurant, near the bathroom or kitchen, where they can sit alone and chatter, gesturing wildly, as if the party to whom they are speaking could see them. Later, after...
Except for oral cancers, the risks for cigar smokers were still lower than those for cigarette smokers--probably because most cigar smokers don't inhale. Intriguingly, however, the increase in their risk of heart disease, as much as 56%, was similar to that found for heavy exposure to "secondhand" smoke--something cigars generate in abundance...