Cynical Activities - T
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TREES
Allergies can be caused by trees including oak, elm, birch, ash, hickory, poplar, sycamore, maple, cypress, walnut, and western red cedar. Reagan did his best to stamp out this menace to society, but the little suckers are still out there. |
TRUCK DRIVER, BEING A
Truck drivers are at unusually high risk of contracting bladder cancer. Drinking coffee reduces the risk of bladder cancer . Truck drivers drink lots of coffee. None of this makes sense to us, either. |
TRUCKS
One diesel truck can produce as much pollution as one hundred cars, pouring substances into the air that can lead to asthma, lung cancer, and global warming; and more than one million trucks on the road today do not meet current pollution standards (as defined by the Official EPA Dictionary: "As long as your vehicle can be seen from a distance of three feet, you're not emitting too much smoke"). |
TRUMPETS
Amateur trumpet players may have a heightened risk of strokes. Their neighbors may have a heightened risk of stress! |
TUNA BURGERS
Tuna burgers can cause histamine poisoning. Still, when was the last time you ate a tuna burger? |
TUNISIA
And now, for those of you who are still grimly hanging on by the skin of your immune systems, the last stop on our worrying world tour: Tunisia! In that heartening study, more than 30 per-cent of the tourists who traveled to Tunisia got sick. Next year, just go to Oklahoma or somewhere. |
TURKEY
Think twice before you give thanks for your turkey. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has documented more than twenty-one outbreaks of food poisoning linked to turkey between 1990 and 1997. One turkey in six tested by CSPI was contaminated by campylobacter, the leading bacterial cause of food-borne diarrhea. |
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