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Fozzie Bear7/07/2010 11:09:48 am PDT

re: #631 Bagua

Let me tell you friend. Smoking tobacco kills millions, hundreds of millions. In perspective from the occasional drilling accident and harm from any leaks tobacco is an elephant and oil & gas exploration is not even a mouse. It is a fleck of dirt in the mouse’s toenail. I’m glad to hear you are taking Tobacco dangers seriously.

Well, this may be true, but it’s a hell of a thing that has happened in central PA, and of course, nobody is really being held responsible. It’s not like anybody has come forward and offered to truck in water for the families there. They just have to deal with it.

Externalities, and so on.

Yes, I realize tobacco kills far more people, but… it kills people who choose to take the risk. In opting to stop taking that risk, I am in some kind of weird biochemical nightmare where I literally feel like screaming at random people at random times. And honestly, I really am a mellow guy, I swear.

How long does the batshit phase of withdrawl last? A week? A month?