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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/11/2013 12:06 PM, Paul S. Person wrote:   
   > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:07:28 -0500, Stan Brown   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:05:38 -0800, John wrote:   
   >>>   I have seen where people   
   >>> who have lost weigh "to get healthy" have ended up getting sick and dying.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Eventually _everyone_ ends up sick and dying, unless they're hit by a   
   >> car.   
   >>   
   >> "People who smoke marijuana all die -- every one of them."  True, but   
   >> that says zilch about whether marijuana is good of bad for you.   
   >   
   > That reminds me of an anti-drug poster I saw in the early '70s.   
   >   
   > "30% of drug users die!" it proclaimed.   
   >   
   > What it meant, no doubt, was that 30% died within a specified period   
   > of time.   
   >   
   > I mean, if only 30% of users of that drug /ever/ died, then taking it   
   > would give you a 70% change of never dying.   
   >   
   > Unless you were hit by a truck, of course. Or a giant space rock   
   > landed on your head.   
      
   Maybe that type of thing was what killed the 30%.   
      
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