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cigarettes save lives

2007 May 2
by David Ma

Well, not quite tech­no­logy, not quite law. But in a tech pub­lic­a­tion so close enough. The Register repor­ted on a story of a woman whose life was saved by cigar­ettes — or rather one cigarette:

Brenda Comer, of Rock Hill, had just fin­ished wash­ing the dishes at around 11am when she popped out for a gasper. At that moment, The Seattle Times dra­mat­ic­ally recalls, “an 80-foot-tall oak tree, felled by winds gust­ing up to 40mph, crashed through the roof”.

Of course, that doesn’t quite make up for the hun­dreds of mil­lions of other deaths caused by smoking. But at least its some­thing positive.

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