OK we have all heard it
"Smoking is bad for you"
Putting a little different slant on this discussion is going to be based on the following list
But vote the truth
Smoking is good for you!!!!!!!!
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- Increases concentration.
- People often go with the general sentiment on things like these, most of what you hear is hogwash. Cases of cancer are linked with smoking, but it's not proof. Only 1 in 3 of us will get lung cancer. (By "us" I also include non smokers).
- Smokers are a persecuted lot, since this habit has been banned from workplaces, restaurants, buses, subways and planes. You don't think they'd outlaw breathing for christ's sake.
- Smokers have the only real community that's left in the workplace today.
- Smokers suffer from less stress, since they actually take a few breaks per day.
- That bruhaha about second hand smoking is a load of ####. it's just a phrase made up to get normal people who earlier didn't care about it, to go and further persecute the smokers.
- It's cool to smoke. Ever seen a hacker or a real artist with a health shake?
- Smokers support the economy by paying all those taxes, which *AHEM* some of us don't.
- Warning:
The Surgeon General fails to warn you that non-smokers die every day- Studies have shown that prolonged contact (as in several years) with second hand smoking can cause mild lung problems. Second hand smoke has no immediate harmful effects.
- Actually, why not just ban non-smokers?
- Too much is made of the 4000 chemicals that make up a cigarette. Several carcinogens found in cigarettes are found in peppers, carrots, strawberries, tomatoes, onions and grapefruit.
- Believe it or not, nicotine is actually "a surprisingly potent drug for a variety of diseases that afflict the brain, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Tourette's syndrome." (An image makeover for nicotine: It shows promise against brain diseases, HealthCentral.com - Feb. 21, 2000) Smokers have a 60% lower risk of Parkinson's disease
- Nicotine has a positive effect on ulcerative colitis, which is an inflammation of the stomach lining, and this disorder affects nonsmokers more than smokers.
- Smokers actually recovered better from a heart attack than nonsmokers
- Smoking was found to reduce the risk of estrogen-dependent endometrial cancer (dunno what that means, it just sounds really cool)
- Schizophrenics (4 million Americans) who smoke can get enough nicotine stimulation to switch on a brain receptor that helps filter information.
- Stanford researchers have discovered that low doses of nicotine - a major component of cigarette smoke - appear to promote new blood vessel growth (in mice). ("Nicotine to be used to treat heart disease," Reuters Health, HealthCentral.com - Sept. 2000)
- Alcohol is even more harmful than smoking. Yet not much is said against it as compared to smoking. Half a bottle of wine can supply you with 32-40 times the amount of lead a whole pack of smokes can give you.
- "Sick smokers may burden a country's health care system but dead smokers save governments money"
Poll-Do you smoke?? Did you know its healthy???
Discussion in 'Driver Health' started by Baack, Nov 6, 2009.
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BAACK what about those of us who don't have a problem with the occasional social smoking, but are still sick of having to breathe the ###### air at every restaraunt we go to, and we do enjoy going to a bar to play a game of pool without getting congested?
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Forgot about you occasional smokers LOL
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Your are correct in the beneficial properties of nicotine BUT nicotine is addictive and the technique that is used to enter into ones system is dangerous.
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It's a proven fact....
My smoking has saved the lives of dozens of people who I wanted to strangle. But elected to step outside and have a cigarette, instead.lowbudget, TXtrucker71, Big Don and 16 others Thank this. -
i forget what comedian said it, but they said that
Smokers go to restaurants to eat,
non-smokers go to restaurants to stand and wait!..jeannie62 Thanks this. -
I don't have a problem with smokers, coming from a family of them. However, for years it was the nonsmokers who were told to suck it up and deal with it. I find it funny that now the table are turning the nonsmokers are unable to take their own advice and MOST sound like babies crying for their blanky.
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BUT, unlike NON smokers. We pay dearly for that right. You made sure of that, with all of your whinning. Which has cost you nothing.
IF the current bill introduced passes. I will be paying .20 per cigerette for the right to ##### as often as I want. I currently pay .15.
That doesn't include the actual cost of the cigarettes.
Until you foot the bill for me. You have nothing to say in this regard.
But rest assured....I'm coming after you and your whinny ### kids soft drinks.
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smokers have rights. it's in the constitution, right next to animal rights and the right to free health care.
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