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Justin Blackmon another failed drug test?

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imminent rogaine

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So if someone smokes a cig and gets lung cancer, it's not a disease, or is it?

 

 

Not a very good analogy. He was saying that the actual addiction was not a disease not that subsequent diseases weren't

"diseases".

 

Smoking is addicting but being addicted to cigarettes is not a disease. Smoking leads to diseases that cause death - just like alcoholism. Lung cancer is a disease just like cirrhosis of the liver or any type of cancer that alcohol can cause.

 

I think the two are very similar; the psychological and physiological dependencies are both there, I think the main difference are the higher costs both monetary and non-monetary that come with alcoholism. 

 

A lot of people here are assuming that anyone taking this stance hasn't experienced the costs of alcoholism. Unfortunately, I think it is such a prevalent problem that everyone here has probably experienced it in one way or another. It's classification as a disease doesn't make it any less of a problem.

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Not a very good analogy. He was saying that the actual addiction was not a disease not that subsequent diseases weren't

"diseases".

 

Smoking is addicting but being addicted to cigarettes is not a disease. Smoking leads to diseases that cause death - just like alcoholism. Lung cancer is a disease just like cirrhosis of the liver or any type of cancer that alcohol can cause.

 

I think the two are very similar; the psychological and physiological dependencies are both there, I think the main difference are the higher costs both monetary and non-monetary that come with alcoholism. 

 

A lot of people here are assuming that anyone taking this stance hasn't experienced the costs of alcoholism. Unfortunately, I think it is such a prevalent problem that everyone here has probably experienced it in one way or another. It's classification as a disease doesn't make it any less of a problem.

 

Nailed it

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Bro, when was the last time you watched South Park? It's the best satire on society there is.

Tried watching it several times over the past few years....due to everyone talking about it. I get the satire aspect. But it is still vulgar and crude garbage 90% of the time.

Just can't take a show seriously that has a talking piece of crap as a character.

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Oh please. That doesn't make it a disease. Addictions are a result of choices people make. Or in other words, consequences. Something a lot of people here unfortunately have never had. Diseases are uncontrollable and unavoidable. Don't even try classifying addiction with cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, kidney disease, etc.

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, addiction, AIDS, genital warts, hpv, gangrene and cte are all very much diseases. And all are, for the most part, avoidable.

disease dis·ease (dĭ-zēz') A pathological condition of a body part, an organ, or a system resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.

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'King of the Hill' was Mike Judge. not Seth McFarlane.

 

I liked 'King of the Hill'.  Early 'Simpsons' was funny too.

 

 

Never said it was McFarlene. King of the Hill is the only animated show I've enjoyed that was made in the past 20 years. I don't like any of the stuff popular today. Never really saw much Simpsons so I can't really say on that one.

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Never said it was McFarlene. King of the Hill is the only animated show I've enjoyed that was made in the past 20 years. I don't like any of the stuff popular today. Never really saw much Simpsons so I can't really say on that one.

 

'Simpsons' and 'King of the Hill' were both hilarious.

 

Nothing Fox has put on Sunday night since then has been worth watching.

 

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