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02-05-2008, 08:19 AM
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| | Rational Thought Allowed?
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| Maybe this slows down the Neo-Puritanical movement?
I love science! Quote:
The researchers found that the group of healthy, never-smoking individuals had the highest lifetime healthcare costs, because they lived the longest and developed diseases associated with aging; healthcare costs were lowest for the smokers, and intermediate for the group of obese never-smokers.
Determining Lifetime Medical Costs Of Obesity |
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LG, when I think of UT football I think about world class sprinter WR's, like Gault,...fast bruising hard to tackle RB's, great OL play and a D that'll knock your d**k in the dirt. That's from the Johnny Major era thru the Philip Fulmer era.--HIGHTIDE 25 APR
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02-05-2008, 08:57 AM
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| | doo doo doo
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: looking out my backdoor
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| hahahahahahahahahaha
Now, where's my Big Mac...
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Despite its widespread use the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary! | |
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02-05-2008, 11:36 AM
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| | VolNation Labs
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"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking." ~ Steve McCroskey (Lloyd Bridges) in Airplane! (1980) | |
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02-05-2008, 11:40 AM
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| | Senior Member
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| Healthcare costs be damned, if I'm ever fat or a smoker, life would not be worth living. | |
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02-05-2008, 01:25 PM
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| | Giver of Sexy
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Murfreesboro, TN
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Originally Posted by ksushalovesthevols  Healthcare costs be damned, if I'm ever fat or a smoker, life would not be worth living. | You mean you went to Berkeley and you don't smoke?  | |
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02-05-2008, 02:39 PM
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| | Wave yo hands in the aiya
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Originally Posted by emainvol You mean you lived in Berkeley and you can think of something worse? | fyp | |
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02-05-2008, 02:45 PM
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| | I'm nutz, that's why
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| Too funny. Makes sense though. | |
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02-06-2008, 12:10 PM
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| | Senior Member
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| There are other ways to ingest natural herbal substances. | |
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02-06-2008, 01:02 PM
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| This seems flawed Quote:
Pieter van Baal and colleagues, from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, created a mathematical model to try to answer this question.
In their study, van Baal and his co-workers created three hypothetical populations of 1000 men and women, all aged 20 years at the start: a group of obese, never-smoking individuals; a group of healthy-never smoking individuals of normal weight; and a group of smokers of normal weight. The model produced an estimate of the likely proportion of each group who would encounter certain long term (chronic) diseases, and then estimated what the approximate cost of medical care associated with each disease was likely to be.
| It's not based on actual data, but a "mathmatical model" and "hypothetical populations."
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02-06-2008, 01:11 PM
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| | Now let me be clear...
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: to the right
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Originally Posted by oklavol This seems flawed
It's not based on actual data, but a "mathmatical model" and "hypothetical populations." | I agree, any study done by a fellow named "Peter Ball" can't be trusted.
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02-06-2008, 01:14 PM
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| | I ♥ Eric Berry
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Boston, MA
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Originally Posted by oklavol This seems flawed
It's not based on actual data, but a "mathmatical model" and "hypothetical populations." | It just likely means the results are heavily subject to their assumptions. The study could be meaningful or crap depending on that... | |
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02-06-2008, 01:16 PM
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| | Technical Difficulties
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| You mean someone came to the determination that it costs more to live to be 80 than it does to live to be 60? I am flabbergasted by this. | |
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