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'Head on' means two vehicles traelling towards each other. How fast was the tree going?

This topic always brings out the compassionate side of TV commentators </sarcasm> Its funny that in social psychology they believe that the people who protest the most about something are usually the most guilty of it themselves.http://m.psp.sagepub.com/content/5/1/44.abstract

The man is still innocent until he has been found guilty ina court of law. And judging by the witchhunt going on in the UK I wouldn't trust the Police or CPS an inch - for example Cliff Richard

I wondered why the turkey baster I bought on the market was so damn small

My missus said the Thai newspapers are reporting that he hadd all his money stolen by a Thai woman (bargirl), so he was desperate.

Maybe they can ban smoke emmitting buses and pick ups which REALLY cause cancer - more particles in 1 minute than a smoker emits in a lifetime. Btw very odd way of increasing tourism to ban 20%+ of your potential clientel.

I trust that this clown fully realizes that this frenzied ISIS caliphate is a direct result of the vacuum that both he and Bush created with their invasion of Iraq and subsequent withdrawal.

The man is a narcissistic moron more suited for celebrity status than leadership.

I guess the fact the ISIS was formed in 1996, before anyone had a Tony Blair or George Bush, has escaped your attention. So much for "direct results". Study, learn......

Actually it was formed in 1999 but never really got going until 2004 when it fought against the occupation. Without the Iraq war it would have sunk into obscurity.

The UK prime minister that committed the country to more wars than any other in history (5) now wants another one. BTW, how's that middle east peace envoy thing going Tony?

They will need to update the pathetically slow internet then.

Great, wish they would ban them here in Thailand or if not charge crazy prices per bag like they do in the UK.

I left the UK to get away from nanny state tossers and now you've followed me over here. Thailand happens to be one of the largest manufacturers of biodegrable bags.

Most smokers are inconsiderate.

Even with the E cigs!

This week I was dinning in a fine restaurant and two men were puffing on their E cigs and the smoke was so annoying I had to move the plates and glasses to another table.

In view of the foregoing, I'm in favor of a ban on E cigs.

I see idiots stomping out lite cigarettes on hard wood floors in restaurants where they should not even be smoking.

The streets and sidewalks are littered with them.

If you smoke, be considerate.

what smoke? It is steam! Meanwhile you breath in diesel fumes which are the main cause of lung cancer.

Are there any up to date and recent photos of the couple who did this? It might help us to keep an eye out for them. They should not get away with this.

The Thai Health Promotion Foundation must be getting short of cash now that smoking is in decline. This has got nothing to do with health, it's a fundraising exercise.

As always follow the money.

BTW: &lt;deleted&gt; has pr0n got to do with health?

Personally i'd jail anyone caught smoking within 10m of a child.

the amount of disregard for child safety here is vulgar.

and don't lets start about 4 yr olds working!!!

VULGAR!

but same same, tiT, etc....

Human waste!

E2A - if the adults want to be as thick as fudge, let them.

i'd also happily quadruple the amount of poisons in each packet! And quadruple the price!

You are a particularly nasty piece of work aren't you? Got any other groups you'd like to see exterminated so you can live ion your own special little utopia?

Aside from that you are woefully ill informed. You do realize that many of the oldest people in the world all happen to be smokers?

http://www.forces.or...ther/oldest.htm

For instance: there's Jeanne Calment (122) who at the age of 117 quit smoking (because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her). But she resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable., Who else? What about: Isabella Gibson ( 100), Ivy Leighton, 100, who smoked 20 cigarettes a day for 84 years, Billy Wilder (95), Wencelao Moreno - from the Ed Sullivan show (103), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (101), Phillipino composer and chain smoker Levi Celerio (91), Comedian George Burns (100). The two oldest men in the world - Ali Mohammed Hussein (135) and Nepalese Narayan Chaudhari (141) - both put their longevity down to avid smoking AND NO ALCOHOL. The USA's oldest man, Christian Mortensen (114) has been a smoker for most of his life--and still smokes. Britain's oldest man, George Cook, died at 108 in his sleep in September, l997. He "smoked heavily for 85 years before giving up tobacco at the age of 97,"

And of course smoking prevents alzheimers amongst many other things (http://www.forces.or...evid/therap.htm). I'll visit you in your nursing home while you sit slumped in a pool of your own urine gazing sightlessly at daytime Television.

Oh yes and why don't you study the effects of Benzene (put into petrol to increase the octane rating (http://www.epa.gov/n...fs/benzenef.pdf)

or what about Diesel particulates? The US EPA said: exposure to diesel exhaust particulates was associated with elevated lung-cancer rates in the majority of studies, principally in transportation or construction workers exposed to diesel exhaust (IARC 1989, Cohen and Higgins 1995, Bhatia et al. 1998). Meta-analyses by Cohen and Higgins (1995) and Bhatia et al. (1998). Then, of course, there's the smoke from countless roasides barbeques: http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/12676603

Grasping at straws. the vast majority of tobacco smokers suffer serious deteriorations in health. If you believe it will make you live longer, more fool you.

As it happens I agree, it probably does but living in polluted cities is just as likely to get you.

Research and studies on tobacco's effects on the population's health were more advanced in Germany than in any other nation by the time the Nazis came to power. The link between lung cancer and tobacco was first proven in Nazi Germany, contrary to the popular belief that American and British scientists first discovered it in the 1950s. The term "passive smoking" ("Passivrauchen") was coined in Nazi Germany. Research projects funded by the Nazis revealed many disastrous effects of smoking on health. Nazi Germany supported epidemiological research on the harmful effects of tobacco use.

http://en.wikipedia....in_Nazi_Germany

Yes, for some of their excellent groundbreaking scientific work, we should indeed be grateful, thanks for pointing that out

Not the nazis or yanks but Sir Richard Doll.

Not quite so fast fasteddie! Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912 – 24 July 2005)[1] was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was credited with being the first to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. German researchers had previously discovered this link in the 1930s, but that work was not widely known until recently.

You did know that Richard Doll suppressed the part of his own research that found that smokers who inhaled (not Bill Clinton obviously) had LESS likliehood of getting cancer that those didn't smoke.

Read the research: http://members.iinet.net.au/~ray/TSSOASb.html

Personally i'd jail anyone caught smoking within 10m of a child.

the amount of disregard for child safety here is vulgar.

and don't lets start about 4 yr olds working!!!

VULGAR!

but same same, tiT, etc....

Human waste!

E2A - if the adults want to be as thick as fudge, let them.

i'd also happily quadruple the amount of poisons in each packet! And quadruple the price!

You are a particularly nasty piece of work aren't you? Got any other groups you'd like to see exterminated so you can live ion your own special little utopia?

Aside from that you are woefully ill informed. You do realize that many of the oldest people in the world all happen to be smokers?

http://www.forces.or...ther/oldest.htm

For instance: there's Jeanne Calment (122) who at the age of 117 quit smoking (because she was blind and was too proud to ask often for someone to light her cigarettes for her). But she resumed smoking when she was 118 because, as she said, not smoking made her miserable and she was too old to be made miserable., Who else? What about: Isabella Gibson ( 100), Ivy Leighton, 100, who smoked 20 cigarettes a day for 84 years, Billy Wilder (95), Wencelao Moreno - from the Ed Sullivan show (103), Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (101), Phillipino composer and chain smoker Levi Celerio (91), Comedian George Burns (100). The two oldest men in the world - Ali Mohammed Hussein (135) and Nepalese Narayan Chaudhari (141) - both put their longevity down to avid smoking AND NO ALCOHOL. The USA's oldest man, Christian Mortensen (114) has been a smoker for most of his life--and still smokes. Britain's oldest man, George Cook, died at 108 in his sleep in September, l997. He "smoked heavily for 85 years before giving up tobacco at the age of 97,"

And of course smoking prevents alzheimers amongst many other things (http://www.forces.or...evid/therap.htm). I'll visit you in your nursing home while you sit slumped in a pool of your own urine gazing sightlessly at daytime Television.

Oh yes and why don't you study the effects of Benzene (put into petrol to increase the octane rating (http://www.epa.gov/n...fs/benzenef.pdf)

or what about Diesel particulates? The US EPA said: exposure to diesel exhaust particulates was associated with elevated lung-cancer rates in the majority of studies, principally in transportation or construction workers exposed to diesel exhaust (IARC 1989, Cohen and Higgins 1995, Bhatia et al. 1998). Meta-analyses by Cohen and Higgins (1995) and Bhatia et al. (1998). Then, of course, there's the smoke from countless roasides barbeques: http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/12676603

The current smoking laws not only prohibit smoking indoors in a recreation club but also prohibit it outdoors which the club in its ignorance still illegally tolerates.

Er ... according to Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanavisit smoking areas must be located outside. He added "Those who do not provide smoking areas as required by the public health announcement could face a fine of up to 20,000 baht."

Please explain.

Quite right. The British Club tried to set up a smoking lounge a few months ago but the attempt was fortunately scotched by members who were opposed to it and were aware that staff were vehemently opposed to having serve members in a smoke filled room.

Absolutely! They should ban alcohol next (far more deaths caused by that particular drug), then salt then... Soon be like good old blighty then.

You are forgetting about the employees that work in there that must be subjected to the smoking environment for 12 hours of the day. Are you also saying if they don't like it they should find employment elsewhere? Anti-smoking laws around the world are for the protection of the general public that wishes to not be poisoned by the 2nd hand smoke of those that feel their right to injest what they want in their own bodies outweighs the effect it has on others.

I suspect you are subject to a lot more carcinogens from black diesel exhaust from badly maintained engines and smoke from roadside barbecues - want to ban them too? And if the bar closed down though lack of custom the employees would lose their jobs anyway. Anti smoking laws were brought in because big Pharma companies wanted to make a killing on smoking cessation aids that don't work or have side effects that are worse that the effects of tobacco - like Chantix (look at who funds these campaigns).

Was anyone ever considering just letting the people in the flooded areas sit and rot forever?

I don't suppose they've given them any consideration at all.

the Cabinet has assigned Justice Minister Pracha Promnok, who is the Flood Relief Operations Center director, to clarify the current situation to the public

No doubt because he's done such an excellent job so far and so has his brilliantly organized department.

Fugitive's brother under close watch

I'm sure he'll lead the police straight to the suspect, after all he has no idea he is under surveillance

December the 31st? Wow! What time exactly on the the 31st?

More to the point - what year?