[muggs]

In June it will be 3 years since I smoked a cigarette. I miss them every damn day and really believe they did make my mind sharper. Some days are more of a struggle than others.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Good One. I like it (lights cigar). ;^) Waiting for the ‘convenient conservative’ contingent of rabid smoker-haters to arrive.....6...5...4...3...(raycpa,moonman,Ditter,the usual suspects)

[PowderMonkey]

Very interesting. I smoked a pack a day for 35 years until my heart attack last July. I quit immediately, cold turkey with no withdrawal symptoms, “nic fits”, cravings, nothing. Quiting was easy. Haven't had a smoke since. Weight gain, however, was “impressive.” And,I've now got the attention span of a gerbil. A chimp has more focus to tasks. As for short-term memory...fuggetaboudit. The change was so stark that my wife complained to my Doctor: “He's turned into a head of lettuce! He's just not ‘there’ anymore!”

[nightlight7]

Nicotine is just one medicinal component of tobacco smoke. For example, there are unknown components in the tobacco smoke which inhibit MAO B enzyme, the enzyme which breaks down dopamine and which normally increases as we age. As result of this effect of tobacco smoke (which is not due to nicotine) smokers in their fifties have MAO B levels of non-smokers in their twenties (see this thread which also debunks often parroted myths of antismoking pseudo-science). There are numerous other little publicized but scientifically well established beneficial effects of tobacco smoking.

[RandallFlagg]

ping

[LifeOrGoods?]

1 major problem here, Capitan. You have no right to think for yourself or make any decisions on your own in our current PC, feminized, sodomized society. That truth doubles for a Christian White Male(CWM). More taxes for you slave!!

[FreeManWhoCan]

What a very intersting post and articles. Thanks. Who smokes what here? I like Lucky Strike.

[ConservaTexan]

Smoke ‘em, if you got ‘em.

[Judith Anne]

Ping to myself.