Why you should start smoking...
Posted: Sun 22 Jan, 2006 15.15
I'm currently trying to quit by cutting my cigarette consumption right down (just 2 in the 6 hours I have been awake so far - normally be 10+).
I was doing some surfing and found a website called "World Smoker's Day". Very interesting site claiming to "debunk" the myths of the "anti-smoking" lobby.
Additional Reasons to keep on smoking, or to start smoking
Personal health
• Smoking protects against Parkinson disease.
• Smoking improves human information processing.
• Higher nicotine cigarettes produce greater improvements [in information processing] than low-nicotine cigarettes.
• Nicotine can reverse the detrimental effects of scopolamine on performance.
• Smoking effects are accompanied by increases in EEG arousal and decreases in the latency of the late positive component of the evoked potential.
• Smokers in general are thinner than nonsmokers, even when they ingest more calories.
"...All smokers had less plaque, gingival inflammation and tooth mobility than nonsmokers and similar periodontal pocket depth."
• Smokers have lower incidence of postoperative deep vein thrombosis than nonsmokers.
• Hypertension prevalence rate among smokers is lower than in nonsmokers.
• "Hypertension and postpartum hemorrhage were lower in smokers."
• "RBCs [red blood cells] from cigarette smokers contain more glutathione and catalase and protect lung endothelial cells against O2 [dioxide] metabolites better than RBCs from nonsmokers."
• There is a low prevalence of smoking in ulcerative colitis. The disease often starts or relapses after stopping smoking.
• Smokers have more reduced risks of Alzheimer's disease than non smokers.
• Urinary cotinine concentration has confirmed the reduced risk of preeclampsia with tobacco exposure.
• Smoking may protect against neural tube defects.
• Maternal smoking may hinder mother-child transmission of Helicobacter pylori infection.
• Research indicates that nicotine holds potential for non-surgical heart by-pass procedures.
• Nicotine has positive effects on cognitive performance in Down's syndrome.
• Smoking has a positive effect on inflammatory bowel disease.
• Not ONE of the over 100 diseases attributed to smoking can be PROVEN by sound scientific methodology to be "caused" by smoking.
Social, quality of life, economics, and political
• Smokers tend to be cleaner than non smokers, as they must wash themselves and their clothes more often.
• Smokers tend to be more tolerant and sociable than non smokers.
• Smokers tend to be more creative than non smokers.
• Smoking is a gratification of life.
• Smoking is cool.
• Smokers contribute billions of dollars more than non smokers to the world economy through tobacco taxation alone.
• Smoking has a relaxing effect on the individual and curbs the appetite, thus preventing overeating.
• Smokers are greater spenders than non smokers, thus further contributing to the wealth of society.
• The oldest people in the world are all smokers.
• Most great geniuses of the last 500 years were smokers.
• Smoking men and women are sexier and more interesting than non smoking ones.
• Compared to most other forms of pleasure, smoking is still the most economical.
• Quitting smoking does not save any money to the smoker, as money is most often spent in disfunctional over-compensation through other (sometimes more dangerous) forms of pleasure.
• Quitting smoking with smoking cessation drugs may expose the smoker to life-threatening dangers.
• Quitting smoking with smoking cessation drugs increases the economic power of pharmaceutical multinational giants.
• Surrendering to anti-tobacco propaganda ploughs the way to other forms of intolerance, persecution, and economic exploitation of other target groups.
• Higher rates of smoking force anti-tobacco to increase its tapping of public money, thus it makes anti-tobacco more "uncomfortable" for politicians, and less tolerated by non smokers.
• Higher rates of smoking force anti-tobacco to use ever-increasing draconian and fascist tactics, thus showing its true colours to an ever-increasing amount of the population.
• Smoking in the face of an antismoker is a no-cost, yet incredibly gratifying experience!
Click here to see the page - World Smokers Day
I'm not swayed at all by any of this, I have to say.
What experiences of quitting smoking or any other 'vice' have you got?[/url]
I was doing some surfing and found a website called "World Smoker's Day". Very interesting site claiming to "debunk" the myths of the "anti-smoking" lobby.
Additional Reasons to keep on smoking, or to start smoking
Personal health
• Smoking protects against Parkinson disease.
• Smoking improves human information processing.
• Higher nicotine cigarettes produce greater improvements [in information processing] than low-nicotine cigarettes.
• Nicotine can reverse the detrimental effects of scopolamine on performance.
• Smoking effects are accompanied by increases in EEG arousal and decreases in the latency of the late positive component of the evoked potential.
• Smokers in general are thinner than nonsmokers, even when they ingest more calories.
"...All smokers had less plaque, gingival inflammation and tooth mobility than nonsmokers and similar periodontal pocket depth."
• Smokers have lower incidence of postoperative deep vein thrombosis than nonsmokers.
• Hypertension prevalence rate among smokers is lower than in nonsmokers.
• "Hypertension and postpartum hemorrhage were lower in smokers."
• "RBCs [red blood cells] from cigarette smokers contain more glutathione and catalase and protect lung endothelial cells against O2 [dioxide] metabolites better than RBCs from nonsmokers."
• There is a low prevalence of smoking in ulcerative colitis. The disease often starts or relapses after stopping smoking.
• Smokers have more reduced risks of Alzheimer's disease than non smokers.
• Urinary cotinine concentration has confirmed the reduced risk of preeclampsia with tobacco exposure.
• Smoking may protect against neural tube defects.
• Maternal smoking may hinder mother-child transmission of Helicobacter pylori infection.
• Research indicates that nicotine holds potential for non-surgical heart by-pass procedures.
• Nicotine has positive effects on cognitive performance in Down's syndrome.
• Smoking has a positive effect on inflammatory bowel disease.
• Not ONE of the over 100 diseases attributed to smoking can be PROVEN by sound scientific methodology to be "caused" by smoking.
Social, quality of life, economics, and political
• Smokers tend to be cleaner than non smokers, as they must wash themselves and their clothes more often.
• Smokers tend to be more tolerant and sociable than non smokers.
• Smokers tend to be more creative than non smokers.
• Smoking is a gratification of life.
• Smoking is cool.
• Smokers contribute billions of dollars more than non smokers to the world economy through tobacco taxation alone.
• Smoking has a relaxing effect on the individual and curbs the appetite, thus preventing overeating.
• Smokers are greater spenders than non smokers, thus further contributing to the wealth of society.
• The oldest people in the world are all smokers.
• Most great geniuses of the last 500 years were smokers.
• Smoking men and women are sexier and more interesting than non smoking ones.
• Compared to most other forms of pleasure, smoking is still the most economical.
• Quitting smoking does not save any money to the smoker, as money is most often spent in disfunctional over-compensation through other (sometimes more dangerous) forms of pleasure.
• Quitting smoking with smoking cessation drugs may expose the smoker to life-threatening dangers.
• Quitting smoking with smoking cessation drugs increases the economic power of pharmaceutical multinational giants.
• Surrendering to anti-tobacco propaganda ploughs the way to other forms of intolerance, persecution, and economic exploitation of other target groups.
• Higher rates of smoking force anti-tobacco to increase its tapping of public money, thus it makes anti-tobacco more "uncomfortable" for politicians, and less tolerated by non smokers.
• Higher rates of smoking force anti-tobacco to use ever-increasing draconian and fascist tactics, thus showing its true colours to an ever-increasing amount of the population.
• Smoking in the face of an antismoker is a no-cost, yet incredibly gratifying experience!
Click here to see the page - World Smokers Day
I'm not swayed at all by any of this, I have to say.
What experiences of quitting smoking or any other 'vice' have you got?[/url]
