RUSH: In our country, for the longest time, we have created a hatred for people who smoke. I’m glad you called, because you’re giving me an opportunity to explain this thing further.

You are having a knee-jerk reaction, and I’m glad you called. I didn’t do it on purpose, but I’m damn glad there were bandages. RUSH: You know, I was cutting a steak one day for lunch in Sacramento, in fact, and I missed and I hit my finger. I mean, when you pick up a cigarette and you’re smoking, you’re kind of doing it because you have some kind of. Now, it’s true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots.ĬALLER: Yeah, but people in the hospital with scalpels are not doing it to hurt anybody. RUSH: Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you.

There’s no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed. RUSH: Well, smokers aren’t killing anybody.ĬALLER: If you’re in an environment where somebody smokes, you can get secondhand disease from. People in hospitals that are -ĬALLER: You’re doing that to cure somebody. I’m sure the hospital industry would agree with you that they support knives, there wouldn’t be scalpels without knives.ĬALLER: No. It’s a good thing that people cut themselves because that’s good for the bandage industry. I have a question for you.ĬALLER: Earlier you were saying about smoking, that people ought to be thankful that there are smokers, because the money gotten from smoking helps to fund all these child programs and everything? But that’s like saying I’m glad that there’s bumper accidents because then auto mechanics would still have jobs and it improves the economy. University of Davis, right down the road from Sacramento. Boy, some of the most interesting days of my life have been spent in Davis, California.

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