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Cigarette Vending Machines Banned in the UK

James Edgar
The Independent
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00 UTC
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Children will find it more difficult to buy cigarettes as vending machines selling tobacco will be officially banned in England today.

According to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), around 200,000 young people start smoking regularly in England each year and 11 per cent of 11- to 15-year-old regular smokers in England and Wales get their cigarettes from vending machines.

The charity, which has been campaigning for the ban to cut off the easy source of tobacco, said more than half (56 per cent) of trading standards test purchases with under-age volunteers resulted in successful sales from vending machines in 2010/11.

Comment: While we certainly do not advocate smoking for minors, this is just another step toward a complete fascist nanny state.

Smoking can have benefits for some people:
Let's All Light Up!
Study finds smoking wards off Parkinson's disease
Nicotine helps Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Patients
Scientists Identify Brain Regions Where Nicotine Improves Attention, Other Cognitive Skills

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Best of the Web: Science is conclusive: Tobacco increases work capacity

Niels Ipsen & Klaus Kjellerup
Den Gule Negl
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:22 UTC
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  • Nicotine improves human brain performance
  • Is the bad reputation of smoking undeserved?
  • Professor: About time the positive side of tobacco is emphasised
By Niels Ipsen, environmental biologist, and Klaus Kjellerup, researcher.

New Analysis Summary: Update Of 40 Years Of Nicotine Research

According to public health officials, tobacco has no benefits at all: "A harmful and unnecessary product," says the WHO (World Health Organization), which has lobbied national governments to combat tobacco use since 19751.

The Danish anti-smoking lobby wants a total ban on tobacco: "We can not see what tobacco contributes," said the Cancer Society. "A smoke-free society should not be an unreasonable policy objective," they say in the Danish health directorate2.

Since the 1960's authorities worldwide have focused exclusively on the health hazards of tobacco, and thus given it a very negative image. Their many anti-smoking campaigns may have made the world forget that tobacco use also has positive aspects. But as we know, any issue always has at least two sides, and now the positive effects of tobacco have resurfaced in the scientific literature.

After 40 years of scientific research on the effects of nicotine, researchers now say that they have sound scientific proof that smoking and nicotine have a significant positive effect on human brain performance.

The brain works better when it gets nicotine - almost like an optimized computer. Nicotine is a "work-drug" that enables its consumers to focus better and think faster. The brain also becomes more enduring, especially in smokers: Nicotine experiments show that smokers in prolonged working situations are able to maintain concentration for many hours longer than non-smokers.

Comment: Any questions?

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Sinister thought control of the fascist anti smoking lobby

Harry Phibbs
Mail Online
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:47 UTC
The sinister sounding UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies has produced a report calling for the extension of film censorship.

It demands an 18 Certificate for any film where smoking is portrayed.

The basis for this demand is a survey asking young people whether they smoke or not and which films they have seen.

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© Unknown'The link between smoking in movies and adolescent smoking is robust'. Bridget Jones is one of many famous characters who smoke.
It concludes: 'The link between smoking in movies and adolescent smoking is robust and transcends different cultural contexts. Limiting young people's exposure to movie smoking could have important public health implications.'

It says there is a a 'well-documented association between exposure to movie smoking and trying smoking among the youth in the USA and Germany.'

Comment: Indeed, and stories like this only serve to underscore the lengths to which the anti-smoking fascists will go to see tobacco snuffed out. Oh, and in case you haven't heard, smoking tobacco might actually be beneficial to many people:

Let's All Light Up!

Pestilence, the Great Plague and the Tobacco Cure

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British government to introduce plain packaging to deter youths from smoking

Richard White
The Guardian
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:50 UTC
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© Alex Segre/AlamyThere's little evidence to show that plain packaging will deter young people from buying cigarettes.
Forcing cigarette manufacturers to introduce plain packaging, following Australia's lead, will not prevent young people smoking, says Richard White

Australia's health minister Nicola Roxon is aiming for the country to be the first to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. In what she calls a "courageous" move against the tobacco industry, legislation is expected to come into force on 1 July 2012 that will make all packets a uniform olive green with the name of the brand in small type. The World Medical Association has called on other governments to follow Australia's example.

Here in the UK, health secretary Andrew Lansley says he wants to look at the idea of introducing plain packaging so that brightly-coloured cigarette packets do not lure youths into smoking. The coalition government will launch an official consultation by the end of the year to discuss introducing plain packaging in England as part of its tobacco control plan. It is unlikely to happen soon, however, as ministers and the Department of Health have stated that they want to judge the effectiveness of the measure in Australia before making a firm decision.

Comment: See, your government cares about your children! Nevermind that they have indentured them and their children to lifetimes of debt slavery and promote foods that are killing them slowly, tobacco must be the culprit!

And now for the propaganda antidote: Pestilence, the Great Plague and the Tobacco Cure

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Why smoking may have a health benefit


The Age
Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:38 UTC
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Scientists have uncovered a gene that helps protect smokers from Parkinson's disease.

The medical world recently discovered that cigarette smoke decreases the risk of getting the degenerative neurological condition - but the genes responsible were a mystery.

US geneticist Professor Jeffrey Vance, from Duke University in North Carolina, has told the International Congress of Human Genetics in Brisbane he has found a gene that helps explain the link.

The gene - known as NOS2A - is found in every cell of the body and is responsible for the production of nitric oxide.

If too much is produced brain cells can die, leading to neuro-degenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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In China, cigarettes are a kind of miracle drug

Geoffrey York
Globe and Mail
Sat, 11 Jun 2005 05:46 UTC
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Guiyang, China - Here's some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health.

Cigarettes, according to China's tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers.

They also reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency.

And all those warnings about lung cancer? Nonsense

You're more likely to get cancer from cooking smoke than from your cigarette habit.

Welcome to the bizarre parallel universe of China's state-owned tobacco monopoly, the world's most successful cigarette-marketing agency.

With annual sales of 1.8 trillion cigarettes, the Chinese monopoly is responsible for almost one-third of all cigarettes smoked on the planet today.

Comment: Reality truly is stranger than fiction! The Communist Chinese government preaches truth to the masses while the Kafkaesque western governments go on overseas propaganda missions to peddle their falsehoods.

This was 6 years ago.

Since then, the Chinese government has folded to international pressure. We would LOVE to know what went on in those meetings.

China ban on smoking in public places comes into force

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Indonesian research clinic ignores anti-smoking fascists, seeks to cure illnesses with tobacco smoke

Jon Meyersohn
ABC News
Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:38 UTC
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At a clinic in East Java, a 3-year-old boy named Satrio lies on a medical table, squirming. His father holds him and his mother looks on as a technician blows tobacco smoke through a small tube onto the boy's skin.

Satrio, whose parents say he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is part of a controversial study by Sutiman Bambang Sumitro, a molecular biology professor at the University of Brawijaya in Malang, Indonesia.

Sutiman and his colleagues believe that tobacco can be manipulated to treat illnesses, including cancer.

It has been decades since anyone in the U.S. proclaimed any possible health benefits from smoking. Thousands of international studies show tobacco is addictive and harmful to health. The World Health Organization says tobacco kills about half its users, or more than 5 million people annually. Even tobacco manufacturers have admitted smoking is dangerous and addictive.

Comment: WHO statistics are not worth the paper they are printed on. But it is true that big tobacco companies produce contaminated tobacco products which are dangerous. That is why it is important to seek out toxin-free tobacco. Tobacco is only addictive for those whose genetic profiles seem to require smoking to cope with the toxic and stressful global environment we live in:

Genetic link tied to smoking addiction

The Genetics of Smoking: Fundamental Biological Differences Revealed Between Smokers and Non-Smokers

Comment: Typical hack-job against smoking - no facts, just bald assertions! This clinic may or may not be onto something with its nanotechnology research, but the evidence that smoking unadulterated tobacco is beneficial continues to pile up:

5 Health Benefits of Smoking

Does Smoking Help Protect the Joints?

Dr. Gori on the passive smoking fraud

Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer

Health Benefits of Smoking Tobacco

Don't Quit Smoking! Longtime Smokers Less Likely to Develop Parkinson's Disease

Long-Term Smoking Protects Against Parkinson's, Study Confirms

Study: Quitting smoking increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes

Smoking 'Can Improve Schizophrenic Minds'

Tobacco plant-made therapeutic thwarts West Nile virus

Modified tobacco plant may block HIV

Tobacco used as medicine

Using tobacco plants to fight cancer

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Global cancer cases rise 20 per cent in a decade to hit 12million a year


Daily Mail
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:36 UTC
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Diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes are some of the biggest health challenges facing the world, experts have said.

The number of new cancer cases worldwide stands at 12 million a year - up a fifth in under a decade.

This is more than four times the annual number of new HIV infections, and 2.8 million of these cancers are linked to poor diet, a lack of exercise and being overweight.

The number of cancers that could potentially be prevented is expected to rise dramatically over the next decade as more people lead sedentary lifestyles and become obese.

Comment: Can someone please explain how it can be that the incidence of lung cancer has risen over the past 10 years despite the fact that the numbers of smokers has dropped drastically in the US and Western Europe over the past 30 years, as a result of government propaganda? Can someone please explain why governments continue to cite smoking as the major cause of lung cancer?

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Does nicotine help protect the brain from developing Parkinson's disease?


NaturalNews
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:49 UTC
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The general consensus nowadays is that smoking cigarettes is harmful to health, and that it can lead to heart disease and cancer. But what about pure nicotine derived directly from the tobacco plant? According to a new study published in The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB Journal), the nicotine alkaloid may actually provide neurological protection in the brain, and effectively prevent the onset of diseases like Parkinson's.

Patrick P. Michel, co-author of the study from the Institut du Cerveau at de la Moelle Epiniere, Hopital de la Salpetriere in Paris, France, and his colleagues tested their theory on two groups of mice -- one group was normal, and the other one had been genetically engineered without alpha-7 subtype, the nicotine receptor. The team first took brain tissue samples from the two groups and cultured them in such a way as to encourage the loss of dopamine neurons, which is what typically occurs as Parkinson's develops.
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5 Health Benefits of Smoking

Christopher Wanjek
Live Science
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:31 UTC
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Who says smoking cigarettes is so bad ... well, aside from the World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and every medical board and association on the face of the Earth?

But should smokers be fortunate enough to dodge all that cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the like, they will be uniquely protected - for reasons unexplained by science - against a handful of diseases and afflictions.

Call it a silver lining in their otherwise blackened lungs. Although long-term smoking is largely a ticket to early death, here are (gulp) five possible benefits from smoking. Breathe deep.

Comment: Let's All Light Up!

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