Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site calma.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!sun!calma!smithson From: smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: [longish] Re: ATTIS's force reducti Message-ID: <37@calma.uucp> Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 19:14:59 EDT Article-I.D.: calma.37 Posted: Fri Oct 11 19:14:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 21:30:02 EDT References: <146@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <6600008@convexs> Reply-To: smithson@calma.UUCP (Brian Smithson) Organization: GE/Calma Co., R&D Systems Engineering, Milpitas, CA Lines: 28 In [a couple of follow-ups, a couple of people] write: >>Enough of this crap about cigarette smoking. I'll start listening to you >>about >>second-hand smoke when you stop driving your car! Do you think that smog >>alerts are caused by people lighting up? >There is no statistical correlation between any form of cancer and smog. >The same can not be said about the secondary inhalation of tobacco smoke. [And...] > > >It would be _so_ nice if people would actually look at the figures. >Do you have any idea what percentage of what pollutants in local smog >come from airplanes during landing and takeoff? Do you care? > Don't you just *hate* people who base their arguments on "statistics", but who don't post the statistics!? (or at least references thereto)... Somehow, it makes it rather hard to believe. -- -Brian Smithson Calma Company ucbvax!calma!smithson calma!smithson@ucbvax.ARPA None of this has anything to do with General Electric or Calma Company.