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Spam Killer
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19490298 United States 06/23/2013 10:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to news.discovery.com] Medical uses of tobacco in history. [link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] |
scimitar
User ID: 39962668 United States 06/23/2013 10:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you seriously consider life then one must discover an underlying reason for the majority of things we do. I've been smoking since I was 17, I'm almost 60 now. I do know that at times I have wanted to quit and have stopped for as long as 6 months, but always return. The fact of the matter is that I've always tried to moderate. A very few times I hit the pack a day, but not for long. The majority of time it has been about a pack a week. My wife of 25 years has never seen me with a cigarette in my mouth. I promised her when we met I would never smoke around her and I never have. I've gotten the impression as you that there is an motive other than health with the campaign to get people to stop, although if an individual doesn't moderate this activity it is easy for me to see it will in no uncertain terms hasten ones demise. I think a major factor is the cost to take care of people who won't take care of themselves. Certainly you realize that too much of anything is not good for the human body. I remember many years ago seeing a post from GLP captured in a google search....... It was just a snippet where the poster stated that smoking prevented something specific from being absorbed by the lungs, as if to imply that was a good thing. I then went to GLP did a search and found the thread, but that comment had been scrubbed from the text. Who knows, I just follow desires with as much moderation as is possible. My fate awaits, whatever that may be, and I accept it. Ominous regressions One Truth... many realities |
littlemiracles
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littlemiracles
User ID: 32798472 United States 06/23/2013 10:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you seriously consider life then one must discover an underlying reason for the majority of things we do. Quoting: scimitar I've been smoking since I was 17, I'm almost 60 now. I do know that at times I have wanted to quit and have stopped for as long as 6 months, but always return. The fact of the matter is that I've always tried to moderate. A very few times I hit the pack a day, but not for long. The majority of time it has been about a pack a week. My wife of 25 years has never seen me with a cigarette in my mouth. I promised her when we met I would never smoke around her and I never have. I've gotten the impression as you that there is an motive other than health with the campaign to get people to stop, although if an individual doesn't moderate this activity it is easy for me to see it will in no uncertain terms hasten ones demise. I think a major factor is the cost to take care of people who won't take care of themselves. Certainly you realize that too much of anything is not good for the human body. I remember many years ago seeing a post from GLP captured in a google search....... It was just a snippet where the poster stated that smoking prevented something specific from being absorbed by the lungs, as if to imply that was a good thing. I then went to GLP did a search and found the thread, but that comment had been scrubbed from the text. Who knows, I just follow desires with as much moderation as is possible. My fate awaits, whatever that may be, and I accept it. Nice...sounds like my story. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 42027474 United States 06/23/2013 10:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you seriously consider life then one must discover an underlying reason for the majority of things we do. Quoting: scimitar I've been smoking since I was 17, I'm almost 60 now. I do know that at times I have wanted to quit and have stopped for as long as 6 months, but always return. The fact of the matter is that I've always tried to moderate. A very few times I hit the pack a day, but not for long. The majority of time it has been about a pack a week. My wife of 25 years has never seen me with a cigarette in my mouth. I promised her when we met I would never smoke around her and I never have. I've gotten the impression as you that there is an motive other than health with the campaign to get people to stop, although if an individual doesn't moderate this activity it is easy for me to see it will in no uncertain terms hasten ones demise. I think a major factor is the cost to take care of people who won't take care of themselves. Certainly you realize that too much of anything is not good for the human body. I remember many years ago seeing a post from GLP captured in a google search....... It was just a snippet where the poster stated that smoking prevented something specific from being absorbed by the lungs, as if to imply that was a good thing. I then went to GLP did a search and found the thread, but that comment had been scrubbed from the text. Who knows, I just follow desires with as much moderation as is possible. My fate awaits, whatever that may be, and I accept it. Nice...sounds like my story. Make that three. |
talkstory
User ID: 42165135 Thailand 06/23/2013 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WHO's own study showed second hand smoke actually decreases the cancer rates in those exposed to it. Radio active particles don't adhere well to lung walls that are in a state of constant cleansing. Big tobacco is taking the blame for auto emissions and atomic testing and bombs. talkstory |
INK3
User ID: 8436377 United States 06/23/2013 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I smoked for many years (and loved it), but quit nearly ten years ago. I now "vape", which means I'm getting my nicotine fix without the smoke. Last Edited by INK3 on 06/23/2013 10:43 AM "When tyrants tremble in their fear, and hear their death knell ringing, When friends rejoice both far and near, how can I keep from singing" page7 |
Hitndahedfred
(OP) User ID: 826012 United States 06/23/2013 10:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | News flash- the government DOES NOT want you to stop smoking, they want you as a CAPTIVE TAX BASE to extort for revenue by virtue of your addiction. Quoting: Spam Killer ====================================================== Yes,, I agree. And you are totally correct in that statement. Did you know that the highest held percentages of health industry holds MAJOR SHARES in the tobacco industry. Excellent reply,, but that is a whole other thread, the financial aspect. Each time a person stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to embrace the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. [Robert F. Kennedy] [link to www.stricklychopped.com] [link to www.ghi-engrs.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14703874 United States 06/23/2013 10:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | News flash- the government DOES NOT want you to stop smoking, they want you as a CAPTIVE TAX BASE to extort for revenue by virtue of your addiction. Quoting: Spam Killer ====================================================== Yes,, I agree. And you are totally correct in that statement. Did you know that the highest held percentages of health industry holds MAJOR SHARES in the tobacco industry. Excellent reply,, but that is a whole other thread, the financial aspect. Now it is in Organ Donors. More money in organs than in pharma, illegal d rugs, and will pass oil one day soon. Big huge black market with big huge investors. Is why they are finding more corpseless/eyeball less heads than dead smokers. |
talkstory
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AlterEgo
User ID: 42187072 Germany 06/23/2013 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Kampf gegen das Rassengift - Struggle against racial poison The fascists laid great emphasis on the fact that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin smoked, while Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were Non smoking. Hitler led the rise of the Anti-smoking campaign to National Socialism, by pointing out that he had given up smoking: In 1919 he had his cigarettes thrown into the Danube and never touched one again. The perspective of the Nazis on smoking was primarily that of dependency on something foreign, instead of the body being completely devoted to their leader. Die Faschisten legten großen Wert auf die Tatsache, dass Churchill, Roosevelt und Stalin rauchten, während Hitler, Mussolini und Franco Nichtraucher waren. Hitler selbst führte den Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus darauf zurück, dass er das Rauchen aufgegeben hatte: Im Jahr 1919 hatte er seine Zigaretten in die Donau geworfen und nie wieder eine angerührt. Rauchen war in der Perspektive der Nationalsozialisten vor allem eine Abhängigkeit von etwas Fremden, während der Körper doch dem Führer gehören sollte. [link to www.sueddeutsche.de] Either the Nazis were really concerned about public health, or they used the anti-smoking campaign as a massive instrument of control over the people as an excuse to restrict freedoms. We note that smoking was a symbol of freedom, according to Edward Bernays, from 1920. Because the Nazis have not done anything good, according to history, it was probably be done by them to restriction of liberty, not to improve health. [link to alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.de] The health of the people has never really interested in the powerful. Otherwise they would not even fully radiate us with radioactivity from nuclear power plants( & 2053 nuclear bomb tests-see video*), allow genetically modified foods, pumped full of harmful vaccines, X-rays shine through us and bombard them with electromagnetic waves. An elite that speaks of overpopulation and advocated a reduction of humanity, is certainly not interested to fighting cancer. Last Edited by PiggyGalore on 06/23/2013 11:06 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9246694 United States 06/23/2013 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | smoked since i was 8 years old progressively got worse until i was smoking more than everyone around me in my teens by the time i hit 14 i had already coughed up black shit from smoking filter-less roll your own brands too much smoking continued for a couple years until enlightenment came even then it took a good 4 to 8 months to quit and i needed spiritual help to back it up. I always felt like i was smoking death , my lungs became very degenerate i couldnt run well or exert my self too much without feeling very horrible again this was in my teens. my opinion is that the rehab programs like you stated and the nicotine pills patches , new forms of smoking are just another corner of a market they control. but as for any positive effects i would have to day virtually none due to the fact that it is a vice that contibutes to the detriment of your health. Much love from Tucson Arizona my fellow GLPer |