My grandfather smoked, yet his death was declared to be a cause of asbestosis, unrelated to smoking.

I'm guessing the study parent alluded to may have found that the exposure to asbestos greatly increased the miners' susceptibility to lung damage via cigarettes... I'll have to investigate this and confirm it.
Moral of the story, asbestos and smoking are both bad, and you should avoid both. I smoked from age 13-19, and now years later still have some problems with endurance running, but my lungs seem infinitely better than they were when I smoked. If anyone reads this and wants to quit, check out Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" - the book is great but the video is excellent and was a tremendous help in my efforts to quit... There might be an .iso floating around on the intertubes if you feel like hunting ;)

Better show some respect, lest I simulate your pancreatic meltdown over a period of time!
Ye-Yeh.

Don't feed the trolls :P
I'm a Christian and believe in creation; moreover I believe that no scientific experiment will prove once-and-for-all either the existence of God or the non-existence of God, because there will always be men who take the results of experiments and adapt them to fit their preconceptions, according to cognitive dissonance. Sadly there are many wierd types that stand up and denounce scientific results as being incorrect without first checking the evidence... But I must assert that mankind will never achieve Godhead, contrary to what Oprah Winfrey and other nutty new-age types would have you think.
I'm obviously no scientist, but given your references to quantum physics and subatomic particles I'll wager that you are a great deal more familiar with the cold hard facts than I am, so I'll ask you a question: Can you give an example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome?

Maybe in a few generations noone will be saying FR1ST P0ST!@!11111!!!1!!1!!one

And your sigs about Grammar Nazis... Now that's class.

You deserve at least +222. That is by far the best comment I've read on /.

Causility was not responding to GP saying "Fuck em", he was responding to an AC who said:

Thus was the discourse directed at an uninformed defender of what is in my opinion an extortion racket, who also implied that everyone who violates copyright law is a "common thief" - akin to "all Jews are greedy", "all arabs are terrorists", "all americans are George Bush" etc etc. As you can see, Causality did not by any stretch argue against the "fuck em" stance, he eloquently elaborated on that stance in an effort to give AC a clue as to why exactly the RIAA can get fucked.

This coming a mere 30 minutes after an asteroid strike in central Australia!!

That's a great precedent.