| Brutalyst said: Was watching a documentary about steroids and it made me wonder why they are so frowned upon in a sports enviroment. A few facts about steroids.
There is no evidence they are harmful to user, an easy example would be deaths related to steroids. By year to year basis a person who dies from smoking out numbers those who die from steroids by hundreds of thousands to one, but those who smoke arent outlawed from a sport. In 2007 only 3 people died from steroid use where as over 400,000 died from smoking, almost 100,000 from alchohol. If steroids arent dangerous (they are just hormones) why are they illegal from sport? Shouldnt a person who had a hip replacement be accused of cheating? or any who had a body augmentation or 'fix' so to speak. How many take some kind of supplement when competing in there sport, im betting close to 100% of participants. Im not advocating the use of steroids, one way or the other, just interested in pereption. |
The Smoking vs Steroids comparrison falls flat.
People don't smoke to be better at sports.
People do use steroids to be better at sports.
Thefore Football doesn't contribute to smoking by smoking being legal.
It would however contribute to steroids use.
Pretty much everyone in a proffessional sport, and even in college sports would be abusing the hell out of them.
Hell, considering how scary highschool football culture is in some parts of the south, steroid use would probaby essentially be mandatory there.
Considering that a LOT of pro-atheletes more or less are getting coached up from Late Grade school/JR high level, even there it's not a stretch to imagine some pretty big steroid abuse to get the best field agents and training.
So in general the real worry is that basically to get into a pro sport one would need to agree to take steroids long before their brain can comprhend all the consquences of that choice.
