Improved concentration and alertness, at the same time as, curiously, relaxation.
Reduced fatigue
Weight loss
On the whole nicotine is a very good drug, as far as its psychoactive effects go. It does improve mental performance and adds to productivity, much like coffee and tea seem to do, or more so.
The downside is, statistically, reduced lifespan. But the increased mortality, statistically, is heavily weighted to past the end of a persons useful life. So economically speaking it is very helpful. It improves productivity for the young and middle aged, and helps get rid of the unproductive retirees.
Overall it seems to reduce lifetime medical costs. Most private insurers don’t like it because there are some negative health effects for people in their 50’s-60’s or so, who are covered by private insurance, but for older cohorts smoking reduces burdens on Medicare and of course on Social Security.
Yul Brenner was 65 when he died.
John Wayne was 72 when he died.
Andreas Katsulas was 59 when he died.
Desi Arnaz was 69 when he died.
Humphrey Bogart was 57 when he died.
Nat King Cole was 45 when he died.
Sammy Davis Jr was 64.
Walt Disney was 65.
Jackie Gleason was 71.
Ed Sullivan was 71.
Vincent Schiavelli was 57.
-PJ
Little mispelling there and correction here.
“COPD,” also known as SAFE (stupid acronym for emphysema). Chronic bronchitis is thrown in as an excuse.
How many Marlboro men were there?
I read one died of lung cancer years, another died when his horse fell and trapped him in a water tank and he drowned.
Is this three?
I can't think of any benefits of not smoking.You should see the fat chicks scatter out of the candy aisle when you walk in there with an UNLIT cigarette in your mouth.
I use that to clear them out of the bakery section as well.
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Here's five, including protection against Parkinson's, obesity and even (some types of) heart attack.
http://www.livescience.com/15115-5-health-benefits-smoking-disease.html
RIP. My grandfather died from lung cancer at the age of 93. I can still see him plowing behind two mules, take his papers out of his coveralls, a can of Prince Albert, pour the tobacco into the paper, put the can and papers back into his pockets, roll the cigarette and light it with a strike anywhere match. Never missed a step.
“Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro country.’’
So the real story here is: Man makes his living selling cigarettes by smoking them in commercials, and dies pretty much exactly when he was supposed to.
This is the problem with the science on smoking - How can people smoke for more than 40 years and yet still die pretty much at life expectancy?