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Nicotine and Death
"Nicotine addiction is the second-leading cause of death worldwide." -- R. Gregory Lande
"Nicotine addiction is the second-leading cause of death worldwide." -- R. Gregory Lande
R. Gregory Who???
Aside from wear and tear, doctors are probably the leading cause of death worldwide.
Aside from wear and tear, doctors are probably the leading cause of death worldwide.
"Tu n'es qu'un fumeur de Gitanes - sans elles tu es malheureux" - Serge Gainsbourg....[Link]
pseudo-science denial of the addict
Sorry, never felt so good as after I quit smoking.
SO much easier to climb stairs, lost the constant cough, my day not constantly inturrupted by the cycle of craving/satisfaction of the highly addictive substance, controlling my moods...anyone who is addicted to nicotine is going to have a thousand reasons why their addiction is "good" for them, and it is SO easy to find trumped up (pseudo) "scientific" evidence to prove whatever you want these days, but none of it is stronger evidence than how good I felt after quitting. And the quaint pictures of the native americans is very funny...as if they smoked all day every day of their life. The occasional ceremonial use of the pure plant by native americans is so far removed from the obsessive addict who smokes the industry supplied chemical laden products that pass as tobacco these days...what a joke.
Do yourself a favor, quit the denial so you can quit smoking, I can guarantee that you'll feel a lot better, because I know that I did.
Sorry, never felt so good as after I quit smoking.
SO much easier to climb stairs, lost the constant cough, my day not constantly inturrupted by the cycle of craving/satisfaction of the highly addictive substance, controlling my moods...anyone who is addicted to nicotine is going to have a thousand reasons why their addiction is "good" for them, and it is SO easy to find trumped up (pseudo) "scientific" evidence to prove whatever you want these days, but none of it is stronger evidence than how good I felt after quitting. And the quaint pictures of the native americans is very funny...as if they smoked all day every day of their life. The occasional ceremonial use of the pure plant by native americans is so far removed from the obsessive addict who smokes the industry supplied chemical laden products that pass as tobacco these days...what a joke.
Do yourself a favor, quit the denial so you can quit smoking, I can guarantee that you'll feel a lot better, because I know that I did.
Don't apologize, but also don't assume your experiences will be mirrored by everyone. All humans are different and need to discover for themselves what suits them best. Typically addictions require more of the substance as time passes due to lessening effects; however this is not the case with tobacco - it is perhaps the only "addictive narcotic" whose effects are constant, with an amount that is the same every day. Name one other "drug" that we can apply that statistic to. As to pseudo-science, I agree that all studies done on "tobacco" are actually not; but are instead performed with dangerous cigarettes because actually using ONLY tobacco would not bring about the deleterious effects that are required to demonize it. Look for yourself, because I have, and NO study does NOT use toxic chemical infused tobacco. NONE. However, I believe that you do feel a lot better, as smoking is definitely not for everyone. Enjoy your day!
How typical it is of the times we live in that some poor old git who can't even make it up a flight of stairs think it's appropriate to be dishing out advice on health issues to complete strangers, as it is to be the willing conduit of nefarious overarching influences that only fool fools.
haha, yes a fool's errand to get between an addict and their product, indeed...guaranteed the addict will trot out personal insults, twist people's words, a sure sign that they have no coherent argument to make other than "smoking, feel good, good for me, must smoke more, never stop"...in fact your grammar is so faulty I can barely discern meaning from the scrabble of words you posted.
I said it was "easier" to climb stairs. Now I bound up stairs, I climb mountains. Easily.
Too bad for you if your addiction has taken over your ability to see/communicate clearly, but the only thing that is nefarious would be spreading pseudo scientific misinformation that has the potential to kill people.
Enjoy your vice without inflicting your nefarious ignorance on others, please.
I said it was "easier" to climb stairs. Now I bound up stairs, I climb mountains. Easily.
Too bad for you if your addiction has taken over your ability to see/communicate clearly, but the only thing that is nefarious would be spreading pseudo scientific misinformation that has the potential to kill people.
Enjoy your vice without inflicting your nefarious ignorance on others, please.
blends are forbidden
Love the follow-up show.
I just went to a local tobacconist and found out that new government rules will come into effect soon that forbid pipe tobacco blends done by the shop. So, if you like a Cavendish cherry blend, you'll have to buy separate and do it yourself. More market oppression through regulation.
Love the follow-up show.
I just went to a local tobacconist and found out that new government rules will come into effect soon that forbid pipe tobacco blends done by the shop. So, if you like a Cavendish cherry blend, you'll have to buy separate and do it yourself. More market oppression through regulation.
a mixed bag
i spent about three years in my doctoral studies (in experimental clinical psychology) participating in... and then managing... a 'smoking research' lab wherein I was responsible for the usual research lab experimental protocols but also writing software and managing equipment for the brain wave research on folks smoking various levels of nicotine research cigarettes. All while I had all my courses in Clin. Psy..... (and then did a post doc at Med. College of Ohio in neuropsychology). One of the significant findings was that humans who smoke use nicotine to modulate cogntion and emotional states. Cognitive processing is actually enhanced. My own dissertation was on electrophysiological (brain wave) effects secondary to depressogenic cognitive activity. Nicotine is a very useful drug, cognitively speaking. But I do not argue the health effects .... which are present to a varying degree depending upon indivudual differences in susceptibility, patterns of use.. etc.
These days at age 67 (in a few months), I still smoke... organic that I roll myself. I do not experience shortness of breath. I work... (now a retired neuropsychologist), for my 87 year old accoutant (who smoked cigars until a couple of years ago) managing 8 acres Of North Carolina farmland. Cutting and destroying cudsu (the bane of farmland America), cutting down (chainsawing) trees needing it, cutting brush.. hauling and trimming etc. When I work, I work a full day... no shirking. Maybe tomorrow I will keel over dead... But I don't feel like it.
i spent about three years in my doctoral studies (in experimental clinical psychology) participating in... and then managing... a 'smoking research' lab wherein I was responsible for the usual research lab experimental protocols but also writing software and managing equipment for the brain wave research on folks smoking various levels of nicotine research cigarettes. All while I had all my courses in Clin. Psy..... (and then did a post doc at Med. College of Ohio in neuropsychology). One of the significant findings was that humans who smoke use nicotine to modulate cogntion and emotional states. Cognitive processing is actually enhanced. My own dissertation was on electrophysiological (brain wave) effects secondary to depressogenic cognitive activity. Nicotine is a very useful drug, cognitively speaking. But I do not argue the health effects .... which are present to a varying degree depending upon indivudual differences in susceptibility, patterns of use.. etc.
These days at age 67 (in a few months), I still smoke... organic that I roll myself. I do not experience shortness of breath. I work... (now a retired neuropsychologist), for my 87 year old accoutant (who smoked cigars until a couple of years ago) managing 8 acres Of North Carolina farmland. Cutting and destroying cudsu (the bane of farmland America), cutting down (chainsawing) trees needing it, cutting brush.. hauling and trimming etc. When I work, I work a full day... no shirking. Maybe tomorrow I will keel over dead... But I don't feel like it.
My wife and I have been married for 36 years, come August.
I am a smoker, she is not; yet, until 2009, I smoked in the house, switching from cigarettes to 'pipe tobacco' along the way due to objections concerning the 'smell' of smoke, mainly.
In 2009, my wife underwent Cervical Spinal Stenosis surgery (neck) and I was instructed by her doktor to NOT smoke in the house afterwards.
Within the next three months, she was diagnosed with Parkinson's, Asthma, Osteo-Arthritis, bladder infections, depression and general decline in her body dynamics.
No one wants to address the theory that it may have been the lack of tobacco's influence, after all those years, that sent her into a general decline in health.
Now, after a knee replacement, other injections in knees, back, etc.,and various therapies and a hefty pill regimen, our collective lifestyle has become almost nil.
I feel that we've been robbed of the very catalyst that would have been able to guard us from some of life's setbacks and inadequacies.
I didn't have to stop smoking in the house; but, I followed doktor's orders.
Yes, there needs to be a study on this; yet, I don't think we'll get it.
After all, the culmination of the last 80 years or so of social, scientific and medical study of smoking affects on humans has been writ in three large words -
BAD PEOPLE SMOKE (...and if you'd like to add a fourth word to the summation...PERIOD!).
Thanks for more details on the smoking scene.