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Chinese Gov't: Smoking is great for Health

 
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mishlert



Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:43 am    Post subject: Chinese Gov't: Smoking is great for Health Reply with quote

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.
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The Great Wall of Whiner



Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting, but you're a month too late. I already did a post on this issue.
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:14 am    Post subject: Re: Chinese Gov't: Smoking is great for Health Reply with quote

mishlert wrote:
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.
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Thats why I'm a 20-a day man.
Its a little-known fact that there are advantages to smoking. Looking cool is just one of them.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Great Wall of Whiner wrote:
Interesting, but you're a month too late. I already did a post on this issue.


Some of us like let news settle. So we can add perspective.

This just in! Patriots win Super Bowl XXXIX! Threepeat!
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mullethunter



Joined: 04 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, it's one way to solve the overpopulation problem.
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neandergirl



Joined: 23 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Particularly since cigarette smoking's been linked to impotence.
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igotthisguitar



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mullethunter wrote:
well, it's one way to solve the overpopulation problem.

Exactly what i was thinking. It's obviously not too difficult to see through their amazingly *cough* *hack* "scientific" claims.

Hmmmmm ... just out of curiosity, i wonder if they actually go so far as to claim smoking is PATRIOTICK ??? IF you love the motherland ... wouldn't surprise me Shocked
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Hyalucent



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America

PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big tobacco has some kind of an arrangement going on over there. I noticed that they were finally allowed to make their inroads into the Chinese market at about the same time those class action lawsuits hit in the States.

I'm wondering if, as smoking comes under fire domestically, something hasn't been planned to allow them to replace revenue through Chinese sales of product. How would the Chinese benefit though? Duties placed on imported smokes? Or if it's part of some US-China government agreement, I suppose the reward could be on products in other sectors or even just policy agreements... where's the money trail though?
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igotthisguitar



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hyalucent wrote:
Big tobacco has some kind of an arrangement going on over there ... where's the money trail though?

Well, reality is the "tobacco" products most governments allow their citizens, to purchase, consume, and slowly poison themselves with are in truth first & foremost "chemical" products.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cigarettes%20chemical%20additives%20&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=iw

Whatever happened to creation's natural unadultered tobacco ???

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Deconstructor



Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why do Chinese need to smoke? Aren't their cities full of smoke?

Maybe there isn't enough of smoke just yet. They could still see an on coming SUV 20 meters away.
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's another matter they'll likely soon be telling the public is good for their health ...

Migrant China Workers Wear Diapers On Trains
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Migrant workers in south China are wearing adult diapers on packed trains heading home for the Lunar New Year holiday because they have no access to a toilet, state media said Tuesday.

About 120 million peasants from China's vast rural areas swarm the cities for work and all try to make it home for the holiday, filling all standing room on trains and making access to the toilet impossible during trips often lasting 24 hours or more.

"During the peak travel period last year, some passengers even became deranged on their journeys because of the conditions and jumped out of the carriages," the China Daily said.

The Lunar New Year, which this year starts on January 29, is the biggest holiday in the Chinese-speaking world and family reunions prompt arguably the biggest movement of humanity on Earth.

"During the peak travel period last year, some passengers even became deranged on their journeys because of the conditions and jumped out of the carriages," the China Daily said.

Many supermarkets in southern Foshan had reported a 50 percent increase in sales of adult diapers for the train trips, the China Daily said in what some local commentators called the "shame of the nation."

It did not mention other cities.

Domestic media said railways in China had transported 3.8 million people alone Monday, an all-time high.

http://www.rense.com/general69/kdll.htm
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cruisemonkey



Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nicotene is a stimulant. Korean cigs don't cause cancer. Rolling Eyes

Most U.S. DEA pilots in South America are wired on 'speed'... not to mention the military. The latter just couldn't pay attention long enough and were to 'tweeked' to find those pesky weapons of mass destruction.
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Hollywoodaction



Joined: 02 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Chinese Gov't: Smoking is great for Health Reply with quote

mishlert wrote:
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.
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I guess the one child policy isn't working anymore at controling the population growth.
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peemil



Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa

PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hate anti-smokers.

Take a big puff of the wind come out of your own arses and die you miserable dogs.

What shits me even more is when someone lights the old peace pipe and then decides to lecture me on the hazards of smoking.

Dear God.

Or people who are just so uppity about it. Like someone in an underground carpark bitching about my cigarette fumes. WTF?!
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Satori



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all

PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:30 am    Post subject: Re: Chinese Gov't: Smoking is great for Health Reply with quote

mishlert wrote:
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.
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Yeah! And you all LOVE living in this repressive dictatorship! You love poverty and serving the motherland. You love living below the breadline so we can get filthy filthy rich.
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