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[Tobacco Dreams]

Believe it or not, it's true:

SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU!

I smoke at least two packs a day, and sometimes (when I'm feeling heroic) as many as four.

Apart from the purely subjective improvement in my overall sense of physical and mental well-being, here are some of the evidences in support of smoking as a health-boosting tonic:

http://www.forces.org/evidence/index.htm documents scientific studies which show that smokers are significantly less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurological orders. And that's just the beginning . . .

"Smoking Helps Protect Against Lung Cancer":
http://www.vialls.com/transpositions/smoking.html

Besides which, smoking is GOOD FOR THE SOUL!

_Cigarettes Are Sublime_, by Richard Klein, one of the most informative and provocative books I've ever read, has played a decisive influence in my personal decision to keep on puffing. Link: http://tinyurl.com/ygk3sx

THREE CHEERS FOR LADY NICOTINE!

[Hollywoodaction]

Sticking your head in an industrial-sized dough mixer also prevents alzheimers.

[SPINOZA]

Terribly sorry to hear you're very likely to get lung cancer, believe that kind of intake is actually good for you and are prematurely aging, despite what ever benefits you believe tobacco to have.

Mind you, I fully support your right to smoke and do not believe in restrictions on smoking. I absolutely freakin hate the p-c anti-tobacco brigade.

In Britain at least, tobacco sales constitute 7.5 BILLION (GBP) in taxes and smoking related diseases cost the national health service 1.5 BILLION - a profit of 6 BILLION. These folks advocate impoverishing the state (or at least depriving it significantly) just so they can eat a meal in a restaurant smoke-free. Absolute vermin.

p.s. I'm a social smoker. Average intake probably 20 per week.

[JeJuJitsu]

[khyber]

Link #1: For every article that is included, one could find a hundred that contradict their message. I'm not going to bother wasting my time but I'm certain it could be done by someone with the wherewithal

Link #2: Not a single cite.



I'm not a HUGE fan of the "ban smoking everywhere" group. I like having dinner in the nonsmoking section but as far as I'm concerned, leave it at that.

I also not a huge fan of bad or misrepresented science. They expose some studies as being bunk and I can respect that, but they also present 4 or 5 articles that contradict the "establishment" without telling the reader that the "establishment" came about because of hundreds of thousands of scientific enquiries.

[SPINOZA]

[endofthewor1d]

[JeJuJitsu]

[SPINOZA]

[huck]

There's no such thing as a "social smoker". It's a phrase that was created to make people feel better about smoking..."I'm not a smoker...I just smoke socially.."

If you smoke, you smoke...But I think it's funny when people refuse to see themselves as a smoker because......I dunno....if you smoke, then you can think there's too much wrong with it.

And 20 a week? How often do you drink?

"I'm not an alcoholic...I only drink six times a week socially."

[JeJuJitsu]

[RACETRAITOR]

You could find a thousand articles about why smoking is bad, and a hundred why it's good.

There is only one benefit to smoking that I'm aware of: it fights bowel disorders like Crohn's and colitis. Actually the largest group of people to have those problems are ex-smokers.

[Novernae]

[JeJuJitsu]

[SPINOZA]

Jejujitsu,

You're not that bad a poster generally, but in this case you should simply shut up. You're embarrassing yourself with abysmal arguments. There's another either/or fallacy (where the arguer suggests a falsely limited bunch of options to typically two where in actual fact many more are available) below.....(not by you)