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by gilster
on Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:54 am |
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/72542
Quote: Hitler's Butt Ban
Victoria Hardy
August 29, 2008
I´m trying to live a healthier life these days, although there are certainly mixed messages out there about what constitutes healthful living. Over the last years I´ve began to remove chemicals, or at least as many as I am able, from my system. I quit all prescriptions, rarely take any over the counter medications and avoid doctors. I´ve had all my silver amalgam fillings removed and stopped using fluoridated toothpaste. I rarely drink soda and I have given up all forms of chemical laced artificial sweeteners. I get my water at a spring, my meat, eggs and butter at an independent farm, make a special trip to the closest organic store for produce and eat very little processed foods. And I may use a cell phone 3 or 4 times a year, but with all those changes, I still smoke.
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Please read the rest of this article on the link - lots of great references  |
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by mhedstrom
on Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:51 pm |
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Thanks for the link Gilster.
It's an excellent article.
Wish there was a way to get it in the national press.
She's the first person I've seen point out autopsy evidence about lungs.
I used to be an autopsy assistant in a Peoria hospital.
Noone but newborn infants has pink lungs and Peoria's only a medium sized city.
Every time I see one of those billboards showing pink non-smoker's lungs next to black smoker's lungs I want to sue somebody!
Oddly enough, during the 3 years I was there we only had 1 or 2 cases of lung cancer and gosh, it wasn't blamed on cigarettes.
Isn't it strange they're always quoting doctors and death-rates but you never hear anything from the doctors who perform the autopsies. Hmmmmm
I guess they have no need for pharmaceutical kick-backs:) |
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by still smokin'
on Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:02 pm |
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I'm new to this forum and read the "Hitler's" article wih interest. I've been smoking for approx. 30 years and quit 5 years ago for two years (did this with hypnosis). For the first 6 months of being a non-smoker, I was also a non-sleeper, I just couldn't go to sleep! Very frustrating but then when that phase passed I found that I developed adult ADD. Couldn't concentrate on anything. My doctor told me that this would pass in about a year. Thank God I'm not an accountant (couldn't do simple math). But this phase never left. When I went through a difficult time in my life, my sister and I were having lunch together (she's a smoker) and I just finally had enough. After 2 years I bummed one of her cigarettes and lit up. Man oh man, my brain felt like a stiff breeze swept through it. I really felt as if I'd had a bad head cold and all of a sudden it went away. It felt GOOD! I immediately calculated the tab and tip in my head and paid the bill. Don't know if anyone else has had this experience. Interestingly enough, my sister who didn't start smoking until her 30's had a history of mental depression. After she started smoking, those periods of depression are gone. She has not had a single episode. And the wife of a friend of mine used to be a smoker and when she quit, she developed all kinds of physical and mental illnesses. I half jokingly told her to start smoking again, the time frame seemed to be about right when her mental and physical disabilies started to appear and when she quit smoking.
Anyway, I don't know about the corrolation between depression or adult ADD and smoking but if anyone has any ideas about this, I would surely love to hear them. |
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by smokem
on Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:22 am |
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Smoking has always been known to facilitate concentration while alleviating depression. It stimulates the mind while soothing the soul without any intoxication. Beside all that it's simply an exquisite pleasure.
Some people smoke a little bit and now and then. I smoke more than I should: easily a pack or up to two packs of cigarettes daily. I honestly love it but that is too much. In the past I've left it off for months at a time. I reduce daily for a week or so and then quit. I'm fine without it, no complaints such as you mention, but I always missed it and ended up going back to it as one might to an old friend.
Nearly all the men I knew of the previous generations in my family smoked as much as I do and lived to about ninety. Nevertheless, as I grow older I live quieter, drink very little, exercise, avoid over-eating, and I really would have dropped smoking altogether by now except for Anti.
Anti makes me very sick and very angry. If I had never smoked I would take it up passionately at this point. That smoking is delightful is incidental. Anything Anti says or does I will defy. The antismokers are the truest and craziest bastards of the age. Like the truest and craziest bastards of every age they are perfectly confident of their perfect correctness in every way.
If I do live to ninety like my grandfather did maybe I'll see the day they're disgraced and ruined. That day can't come too soon and I'll die happily when it does. |
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by runamok
on Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:15 am |
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smokem wrote: If I do live to ninety like my grandfather did maybe I'll see the day they're disgraced and ruined. |
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