Here’s one of the best pieces of anti-propoganda I’ve seen in a while!

I found this in a Cafe Mom group. It seems well researched. Click on the blue paragraph headers to go directly to the supporting article.

Here ya go:

Smoking lowers Parkinson’s disease risk - More evidence that smoking fights Parkinson - “A new study adds to the previously reported evidence that cigarette smoking protects against Parkinson’s disease. Specifically, the new research shows a temporal relationship between smoking and reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease

Impact of Smoking on Clinical and Angiographic Restenosis After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention – This large study shows yet another benefit of smoking. This time the benefit concerns restenosis, that is, the occlusion of coronary arteries. Smokers have much better chances to survive, heal and do well. Where is the press? Nowhere to be found, of course; we are talking about a significant positive about tobacco and smoking, which affects the health of people, don’t we…

Here’s the article!

Well, Minus the nicotine, Smoking CAN be slighty pro. But Everyone does anti- smoking becuase the main form of “Ciggys” have increased nicotine.

All deoends what you are smoking, how often, and if it is addictive or not…

I love my habit, but I’ve been dying to find all natural smokes.
Have not been able to find any around here for ages :-(
I’d be able to kick this habit if it wasn’t for the commercial smokes here. But untill I can find someone to supply me with them, I am kinda in the dust. I have not seen thoes natural smokes since I started smoking them.
I guess the ciggy companys even get their strangle-hold on the whole matter before one even starts smoking.
I love smoking, but I could cut my habit a lot if I could find them so called natural cigs’.

Yes. Tobacco and nicotine *DO* have health benefits. If memory serves, cigs are one of the better medications for specific types of bowel fluctuations. Addictive, and with health problems that go along with it, but that covers a LOT of other medicines, as well.

The main thing is though, that the *penalties* to one’s health far outweigh any *benefits*.

It’s like the old argument for not wearing seatbelts: ‘I don’t want to be trapped in a flaming car’. Sure, there’s a chance, but the chance that your seatbelt will save your life rather than kill you is about a thousand times more.

oh, and DJ? Try smoking a pipe, instead. It smells a lot better than cigs, forces you to slow down and take your time to enjoy it, and usually isn’t nearly so ‘corporate’.

I don’t see myself smoking a pipe while driving
Besides, any filter is better than no filter.

DJ_Canada - 03 March 2008 08:43 AM

I don’t see myself smoking a pipe while driving

Just throw some tobacco leaves into your car’s fuel tank, then run a hose from the exhaust pipe up and in through the driver’s side window.  Yup.  That would work nicely.  That way you don’t even have to fumble around trying to hold a cigarette or pipe while you’re driving.

Pipes are pretty good. And snuff sales have been up 300% since the smoking ban came into force here last year.

DJ_Canada - 03 March 2008 08:43 AM

I don’t see myself smoking a pipe while driving
Besides, any filter is better than no filter.

Point. They do make pipe filters, though.

Smoking cured up my walking pneumonia a few years ago. I decided the best thing to do was to smoke as many cigarettes as possible to cure my lung infection. While this is terrible medical advice to be giving anyone, it did work for me.

Tobacco is not as evil as people think. It’s merely the additives the companies put into it that make tobacco have such a bad image in hindsight.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/viewthread/7383/

Oh, tobacco can be quite a nasty plant indeed.  It didn’t grow all those chemicals in it for our benefit.  Nictotine is a very effective poison, and that’s only one of the things in tobacco.  These plants are the product of millions of years of constant chemical warfare among themselves.

However, there’s never anything so dangerous that mankind can’t add to it to make it even more so.  Aren’t we a spiffy species?

I honestly think that if tobacco was not exploited as it was in the past, it can prove to be more beneficial than thought.

It does relieve stress. If it wasn’t for the companies adding additives, perhaps it wouldn’t seem as evil of a product.

Tho, smoking is bad for you regardless, nicotine as a stress relief is not a far fetch idea. It can relieve stress and pain. Like any other stimulant, it can be addictive. It’s just a shame that it fell under the evil of people who wanted to exploit it for money.

Eh, it could work for that sort of thing.  But for most people, there are better options.  Just because something can be used for some purpose doesn’t mean that it should be.

People working to make tobacco even more addictive certainly doesn’t help matters any, of course.  More research into looking at just the benefits of tobacco and trying to isolate them from the negative things might eventually give us more interesting stuff, but more likely it will just give us things that act similarly to what we already have.

At the very least, it has provided us with some good insecticides. . .