newscientisttech.com— Images that show how fingerprints can be used to reveal whether you are a smoker, an avid coffee drinker or even a drug addict have been revealed by UK scientists.
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meh. Employers in France still believe handwriting analysis to be an accurate means of judging a person. This new stupidity, right along with handwriting analysis, is more akin to astrology than actual science. It's garbage. Pay no attention to it.
Every study says smoking is not cause and effect. It is just one factor in many that raises your risk of getting a disease. Non-smokers get lung cancer, emphysema and other diseases blamed on smoking. Smoking may raise your risk slightly of getting a disease, like driving a car raise your risk of getting into a serious car accident. These death numbers are all conjecture and are bullsh!t. Most 2 pack a day smokers live past 80 years old.
I can certainly see those points.That said, people don't, as I said, scoff at alcoholics. People don't scoff at food addicts. Or addicts of almost any sort, for that matter.And yet, smokers are immediately treated as though they are horrible people. It's a habit that I kicked a while ago, and it really wasn't easy. Do you think that people say that getting drunk is good for your health? No. People start for complicated reasons. Could be family life, social, or because it feels good. But it's usually more complicated than that. Same with smoking.The important thing is that, as a society, we love to latch on to certain things and call them bad. Honestly, it wasn't long ago that we would have yelled at alcoholics, because we really didn't understand that addiction sucks. I just can't understand why, after so many years, people still don't get that addiction sucks when it comes to tobacco, too.
Closed AccountMay 19, 2007
Perhaps they should say drugs *users*, I can quit heroin whenever I want...
thefirstenemyMay 19, 2007
They already had that episode on the original CSI. Google says the episode was called Bloodlines.
kavaliroMay 19, 2007
meh. Employers in France still believe handwriting analysis to be an accurate means of judging a person. This new stupidity, right along with handwriting analysis, is more akin to astrology than actual science. It's garbage. Pay no attention to it.
technopunditMay 19, 2007
They already have saliva tests for this. You wipe your gums or tongue with a swab.
buster99May 19, 2007
This just in: Smokers are complete idiots.
kidd3ckzMay 20, 2007
Seth is that you?You are so fired.
Closed AccountMay 20, 2007
Every study says smoking is not cause and effect. It is just one factor in many that raises your risk of getting a disease. Non-smokers get lung cancer, emphysema and other diseases blamed on smoking. Smoking may raise your risk slightly of getting a disease, like driving a car raise your risk of getting into a serious car accident. These death numbers are all conjecture and are bullsh!t. Most 2 pack a day smokers live past 80 years old.
lithiteMay 22, 2007
I can certainly see those points.That said, people don't, as I said, scoff at alcoholics. People don't scoff at food addicts. Or addicts of almost any sort, for that matter.And yet, smokers are immediately treated as though they are horrible people. It's a habit that I kicked a while ago, and it really wasn't easy. Do you think that people say that getting drunk is good for your health? No. People start for complicated reasons. Could be family life, social, or because it feels good. But it's usually more complicated than that. Same with smoking.The important thing is that, as a society, we love to latch on to certain things and call them bad. Honestly, it wasn't long ago that we would have yelled at alcoholics, because we really didn't understand that addiction sucks. I just can't understand why, after so many years, people still don't get that addiction sucks when it comes to tobacco, too.
danrutoJun 3, 2007
lol oh well, I dont really find this useful at all, theres too much crap in studies nowadays