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101-year-old marathoner

April 13: Buster Martin has never run a marathon before. But at 101, he’s training to become the oldest person to finish one. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports. (Nightly News)

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{"commentId":1687944,"authorDomain":"bsr71555"}

Go Buster! A free man who is not going to listen to all of the bogus advice from the non-profit organizations and all of the health hoopla that they create.

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    Reply#1 - Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:27 PM EDT
    {"commentId":1688004,"authorDomain":"musician"}

    My kinda guy

    A few pints and a few smokes and running a marathon at the young age of 101.

    He will replace George Burns as my hero.

    {"commentId":1688004,"threadId":"249608","contentId":"1428737","authorDomain":"musician"}
      Reply#2 - Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:50 PM EDT
      {"commentId":1688176,"authorDomain":"bus-fire123"}

      Did NBC News check this guys credentials,i cant believe this guy is 101. i think the pub and smoke industry put this guy up to this.

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        Reply#3 - Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:48 PM EDT
        {"commentId":1688204,"authorDomain":"bus-fire123"}

        Did NBC News check this guys credentials,i dont think hes 101. i think the pub and smoke industry put him up to this

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          Reply#4 - Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:58 PM EDT
          {"commentId":1688216,"authorDomain":"v-kleinhelter"}

          The research I have been doing since 1998 has shown me the real truth of the myth being spread about Second Hand Smoke worldwide by the Pharmaceuticals. They do this to boost their profits into the Billions through the sale of pills and patches.

          I found the largest studies ever done. These studies were completed by the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization, the National Oakridge Labs, one simply called The Enormous German Study and many others. These were all long term and the largest ever done to date. NONE have been larger or longer in years to complete. None have ever been more complete in their investigation of the supposed problem. The largest percentage started their studies to prove the link of SHS to cancer and or Heart Disease.

          They all agreed in their findings. None found any connection of SHS to Cancer or Heart Disease. The World Health Organization even stated they also found no connection of SHS to Heart Disease. They also stated there is the possibility that SHS may have the beneficial effect of helping the immune systems of children to develop. The WHO also found that Children of smoking families are 22% less likely to contract cancer.

          I also fond an almost unbelievable co-operation between Government Agencies, Studies by non-profit organizations, scientist, National Media, Doctors and almost everyone who stands to profit by spreading the misinformation provided by the Big Pharma/RWJF.

          The worst of the myth spreaders are the EPA and the American Cancer Society. The EPA study was no study. They came up with 3,000 deaths a year caused by SHS by computer generated junk science and that so called study has been proved rigged and false. Even our Surgeon General is still using that figure today,, and the 3,000 figure is still the same. He couldn't even adlib. His review of studies was a farce and he is no longer the Surgeon General. He is currently working at a health spa.

          The Surgeon Generals study by press conference ( his study of selected studies provided by the EPA) is the product of politically connected charlatans led by Jonathan M. Samet, who has been the ringleader of every major anti-smoking fraud since the EPA ETS report. Like ALL the anti-smokers' reports, it is founded on the deliberate and systematic use of defective studies to falsely blame passive smoking for diseases caused by INFECTION or VIRUS as stated by the ACS in 1955. It is also the most flagrantly politically corrupt: Fred Malek, who was deputy director of President Nixon's board of directors of the contracting firm which concealed the identities of the anti-smoker authors of the EPA ETS report behind illegal pass-through contracts. The EPA's own scientists would not stand behind this false study but it is being used by every Health Department here and overseas.

          The American Cancer Society is the worst offender of all the NON-Profits. The last figures I have are they have over a Billion dollars in cash and they have over 23 fundraisers a year and poormouth at every one of them. Most of their money goes into six figure incomes and more misinformation. The smallest part of their funding goes to research.They even get in a huff if there is mention of a cure. Why kill the Goose.

          The RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) was set up by Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceuticals to fund the smoking bans through the ACS. Johnson and Johnson is the largest seller of stop smoking products. They own over 250 drug companies with the aim of controlling the nicotine market. The ACS was about to lose its tax free status because of their political funding of smoking bans and they had to create the ACSCAN foundation as a for profit agency to provide funds for pushing the bans.

          It's been a long, deliberate process that continues to become evermore sophisticated in its manipulation of the minds of the American public. One of the principle architects in the takeover of the American mind is a man named Edward Bernays, who is considered the father of the American public relations industry. If his name doesn't ring a bell, then maybe his Uncle Sigmund Freud's will. In 2002, the BBC broadcast a four-part documentary called "The Century of Self," covering the story of the relationship between Freud and his American nephew, as Bernays learned about the human mind and how to manipulate the masses. Bernays' goal, from the early part of the 20th Century, was to be able to teach corporations how to make people want things they didn't need through a variety of manipulative techniques appealing to people's unconscious fears and desires. What makes this production interesting is that it covers post-war America and illustrates how politicians and policymakers learned to use Freud's ideas in their desire to control the masses as well. It shows how Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna, and his nephew Bernays, were central players, along with the U.S. Government, corporate America, among others by controlling the masses via engineering consent.

          Lasker (a student of Bernay) and his wife, Mary, longtime board members of the American Cancer Society, realized that really big money could be had for research, if only the public could be convinced that tax dollars -- if poured into research year after year -- might lead to cures for all sorts of diseases, particularly cancer.

          Over the years, Lasker had developed a number of Madison Avenue propaganda techniques similar to Bernays that he applied to motivate people to generously fund the American Cancer Society (ACS). Lasker's campaign strategy detail Lasker's central role in creating the money hungry machine we call the National Institutes of Health, which began when he retired as the richest man in the history of advertising. was based on our fear of death and the hope that with enough money, we could cure cancer. He coached his friend, Elmer Bobst, president of the American branch of Hoffmann-LaRoche and later Warner-Lambert drug company, to start every fundraising speech with the following statement, "One in five of us here - every fifth person in the audience - will die of cancer." He would then turn the fear he had engendered into hope with his next line, "We want to cure cancer in your lifetime…donate generously."

          If you have been mislead into believing that SHS is killing people you are just part of the millions so don't feel too bad. Our City Councils have fallen for this overload of junk science by hearing and reading the same lies everyday in our major media since Surgeon General Coop had the first cigarette labels warn about cancer.

          The Fat Police are coming. Can you even guess how many Billions the Big Pharma will make on diet pills? I may be wrong on this; they may go after alcohol next.

          I'm up to over 350+ studies and reports on the myth of SHS and growing. I know I can't stop this control of our lives by myself. There are too many people and too much money against me and too many people who won't believe and won't take the time to find the truth.

          We don't have an immigration problem either. Do you believe that?

          Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts.

          I have all the facts needed to show that this push for smoking bans is about money and control not health.

          Virgil Kleinhelter
          8804 Brown Austin Rd.
          Fairdale, Ky. 40118
          502-727-4747

          v.kleinhelter@insightbb.com

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            Reply#5 - Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:05 PM EDT
            {"commentId":1689806,"authorDomain":"deelikestosmoke"}

            LOL! The firsthand smoke didn't kill him. so mich for the pollited info about smoking bogus info. Nobody believes that anyway except anti's and the people who line their pockets with the MSA money.

            www.smokersclubinc.com www.smokersclubinternational.com www.forces.org

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              Reply#6 - Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:33 AM EDT
              {"commentId":1690413,"authorDomain":"jacquid"}

              what an inspiration. This guy is my hero!

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                Reply#7 - Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:44 PM EDT
                {"commentId":1690498,"authorDomain":"harleyrider1978-1"}

                Way to go buster...........I read a story about buster 3 months ago when he said ''he was going to run the marathon and then go str8 to a pub and have a beer and a smoke and the smoking ban be DAMNED'' he was liting up inside..............

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                  Reply#8 - Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:04 PM EDT
                  {"commentId":1690684,"authorDomain":"tozbart"}

                  this guy has his face and neck conveniently covered with beard.

                  his stride is that of a 70 yr old, not someone who at 101, is just running his first marathon.

                  check him out.

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                    Reply#9 - Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:53 PM EDT
                    {"commentId":1692659,"authorDomain":"MichaelJMcFadden"}

                    Brian wrote, " i think the pub and smoke industry put this guy up to this. "

                    Sure Brian. It's been a deep cover secret plot that they started back in 1990 when the guy was born. They used Super-Aging-Technology to make this 18 year old look ancient, addicted him to beer and cigarettes, used electro-programming to make him believe himself to be 101 years old, falsified his birth and life-history records, and paid off everyone in his town to pretend that they've known him for years.

                    Sheeesh.

                    I commend NBC for not airbrushing this guy's life to make it fit the politically correct image. Back when a courageous airline stewardess stopped Richard Reed from blowing up an aircraft every news channel except one (MSNBC) cut her "one minute of fame" video down to 10 seconds because she had the audacity to reach into her pocketbook for a smoke after exiting the plane after her ordeal. Saving a few hundred people was nice, but we don't want people to think a SMOKER did something good, now do we?

                    Michael J. McFadden
                    Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"

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                      Reply#10 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:37 AM EDT
                      {"commentId":1696347,"authorDomain":"deweysanders"}

                      Go Buster! The world is cheering for you and so am I. I'm a pup at 71 but I'm a believer that you will be, and deserve to be, the first. By believing in you, I plan to hang around and do one myself at 100. However, you would only be 130 and probably still setting records. Best!

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                        Reply#11 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:04 PM EDT
                        {"commentId":1696369,"authorDomain":"triathleteretter"}

                        Ain't no way this guy is 101!

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                          Reply#12 - Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:10 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2126654,"authorDomain":"harleyrider1978-1"}

                          Air quality test results by Johns Hopkins
                          Town can't ban smoking, attorney says By Prentiss Findlay (Contact) The Post and Courier Thursday, June 26, 2008

                          LINK TO THIS STORY WAS DELETED we wonder why but I have retained the original story.

                          COLUMBIA — An attorney for Bert's Bar argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the town of Sullivan's Island does not have the authority to ban smoking in the workplace.

                          Bert's Bar attorney Paul Dominick said that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, through the state Department of Labor, regulates workplace smoking.

                          Justice Donald Beatty questioned Dominick's assertion.

                          "I don't tend to agree that what you say is the case," Beatty told Dominick. "So you're saying we were wrong when we ruled on the Greenville issue?"

                          Justice James Moore noted there is no state or OSHA regulation that relates to smoking.

                          "What you're wanting is for this court to be the first court to implement this as far as OSHA is concerned," Moore said. "If we were to agree with you, then we would have to overturn Foothills (the Greenville case)."

                          Frances Cantwell, representing the town, said a Supreme Court ruling in March that upheld Greenville's smoking ban validates the Sullivan's Island ordinance. Cantwell said the ordinance does not conflict with the state's Clean Indoor Air Act and compared the town ordinance with Charleston's 2 a.m. closing time for bars. Cantwell said all the issues were decided when the court issued its ruling upholding the Greenville smoking ban.

                          "Sullivan's Island does not punish any conduct that the state regulates," Cantwell said.

                          The court will issue a written opinion but has not said when it will do so.

                          Bert's Bar is closed. The owners said part of the reason for closing the longtime island establishment was lost business because of the smoking ban.

                          The attorney's claim actually has more validity than you know:

                          Air quality test results by Johns Hopkins University, the American Cancer Society, a Minnesota Environmental Health Department, and various researchers whose testing and report was peer reviewed and published in the esteemed British Medical Journal......prove that secondhand smoke is 2.6 - 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations:

                          All nullify the argument that secondhand smoke is a workplace health hazard.
                          Especially since federal OSHA regulations trump, or pre-empt, state smoking ban laws which are not based on scientific air quality test results.
                          Mark Wernimont
                          Watertown, MN.

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