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Old 08-13-2019, 08:37 AM   #156
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Your muff on exercising in smoke is that the study you looked at focused on people living in pollution permanently...like in Mumbai...If you live in pollution anyway, you might as well exercise because it could still provide you some benefit even though the pollution is going to kill you way sooner either way. Taking that info and saying it's a good idea to go run in the forest fire smoke is kind of bad logic. Like I think you were pretty sure it gave you super powers at one point.
Well I'm sure glad you missed the entire argument of that several post discussion and have clearly moved on to bigger and better things.

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Your mention of the cigarette industry as an example of something we allow even though it's patently dangerous struck me as odd because the reason it exists is the billions of dollars it has provided lobbying groups and thus political groups throughout the years. That's what it would take to get something so dangerous in our lives again. Not really a good comparison to escooters.
So by this logic we should ignore what's going on in Hong Kong right now because "the roots are too deep" and instead launch an expensive campaign to stop stubbed toes in China.

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When comparing escooters to automobile related injuries, you'd want to create an equal comparison. You might find out that maybe like 250k people go to the hospital every year in Canada because of car accidents. That sounds like way more than scooters. But maybe there are like 20 million people taking 100 million trips a year in a car. So it's not actually that much compared to the relatively few scooter users.
I like how you conveniently ignore the hard reality of it. Not many people ride scooters compared to cars. It literally dumbs your problem down a couple of hundreds of thousands worth. Did you know one person dies every year from the cinnamon challenge? AND if we pro-rate the actual hours of people doing the cinnamon challenge, 10,000x the people die per hour of doing the cinnamon challenge than driving. Anti-cinnamon here we go!

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It's like the bike comparison. People thought that bikes were way more dangerous because more people went to the hospital with bike injuries. Turns out scooters are more dangerous when you compare the numbers properly.
Frankly I can't believe your insensitivity to our cinnamon problem.
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