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I can but say that my experience is totally different. Probably that is geographical. Yours happens to be in the shiny C

My mother is French.[/quote]

That does not get you closer to the French suburbia. And I think it was you who first invoked the argument of "anecdotic evidence". See, it fires back now.



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I guess you have never seen any French in your life. Or probably you saw some export variant of them. I live surround by Frenchmen (thank God not quite in France though) and let me assure you, they...

If you feel you can trust the Russian media, look at

http://english.pravda.ru/economics/2001/06/08/7257.html
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Trust Pravda? :-)

That's what we call anecdotal evidence.
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Correct. So is blaming smoking and drinking. The Russians often say that about everybody who has died ate cucumbers, so ban cucumbers.


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I have a friend, he's Austrian, and he smokes unfiltered Camel. Averaging two packs a day. He told me that he found the Russian stuff mentioned above quite mild compared to his stuff. Wanna say...

I think that сигареты refers to Western-style filtered cigarettes - Malboro etc - whereas папиросы are your untipped cheap variety. That would explain злые папиросы.

I'm very willing to stand...