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Warning: nicotine seriously improves health
The Observer ^ | July 18, 2004 | Robin McKie

Posted on 07/17/2004 5:17:58 PM PDT by MadIvan

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To: MadIvan
"This point is backed by Dr Tony George, of Yale University. 'Smoking is a marker for psychopathology,' he states in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

Then why do so many psychotherapists commit suicide?

41 posted on 07/17/2004 7:40:25 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: Judith Anne

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am appalled at the number of FReepers claiming "higher intellect" than smokers falling for this pharmaceutical industry Kool-aid..........all this is a a press release for "nicotine replacement devices."

Get a grip folks......the pharma lie even more than the tobacco industry ever did...........and they spend lots more money doing it.


42 posted on 07/17/2004 7:41:14 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's driving has killed more people than second hand smoke)
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To: southernnorthcarolina
SORRY to Disappoint You, but I Think >50% of FReepers are "Smokers!!"

An Interesting "Study!!"

Dod

43 posted on 07/17/2004 7:43:53 PM PDT by Doc On The Bay
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To: TheLion

Why do so many psychotherapists commit suicide?

Because they don't smoke?


44 posted on 07/17/2004 7:44:48 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Just another Bush-bot biddy drinking that Republican KoolAid.)
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To: MadIvan

How does that saying go? "It is an ill wind indeed that blows no good."


45 posted on 07/17/2004 7:45:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: AGreatPer
"...Freepers skew strongly toward higher...income levels..."

Does this look familiar? This is the DU/MM profile of anyone republican.

...and NO, the editing I did does not effect the connotation at all.

46 posted on 07/17/2004 7:46:13 PM PDT by LouisWu (Diligence is my watchword. Well...'Casio' is my watchword, but 'diligence' is kinda cool.)
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To: Judith Anne

"Because they don't smoke?"

Probably nailed it!...lol


47 posted on 07/17/2004 7:48:13 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: Gabz
The absolute ignorance shown by some members of FR to other members who choose to smoke sometimes makes me extremely ill.

I hope you recover from your illness.

I have been proactive with my health concerns and prepared myself for the onslaught of free discussion at FR.

48 posted on 07/17/2004 7:49:30 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: RightWhale

Hey, that is a pretty low blow, comparing smokers to wacko cell phone users....I'm offended. I smoke and wouldn't have a cell phone.


49 posted on 07/17/2004 7:50:25 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: MadIvan

I heard it also kills ringworms.
Don't know if it is true or not.


50 posted on 07/17/2004 7:51:24 PM PDT by Chewbacca (Michael Moore is a filthy piece of distended rectum.)
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To: EGPWS

I have been proactive with my concerns for bogus use of science when it comes to unpopular choices and always expect free discussion at FR.

I guess I should have used the term saddened, as opposed to ill, about the ignorance shown toward others.


51 posted on 07/17/2004 7:52:45 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's driving has killed more people than second hand smoke)
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To: Judith Anne
I'm healthy, I'm a nurse, no doctor has ever suggested that I quit smoking.

Funny, I was just having this conversation the other day with my fellow Information Technology students, as we took a smoke break. How many nurses we all know, that smoke...

Maybe that's part of the reason I've often been mistaken for a nurse, LOL
52 posted on 07/17/2004 7:53:17 PM PDT by KangarooJacqui (http://www.RightGoths.com/ - Gothic. Freaky. Conservative. Wear black and be proud!)
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To: Judith Anne; Jim Robinson
Jimmy, don't ban for this but just replying to Judith Anne #38.

Judith Anne, you sound hot.

Ussens could possible gets together sometimes.

It would be interisting to hear from Jim Robinson on the amount of Freeper smokers on his trip. I know that Jim, Shila and Chris do not smoke.

Me personally, I have cut back from about 4 packs a day (honest) to about 1/2 pack. I am working on reducing it. It is tough, and will admit it.

53 posted on 07/17/2004 7:53:25 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Who authorized Kerry's Purple Hearts?)
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To: Gabz
I guess I should have used the term saddened,...

That would be more appropriate however I can understand your concern in using word for it is so "Daschle familiar".

Your post was a good one and don't let my feisty reply affect your future posts. LoL's

54 posted on 07/17/2004 7:58:35 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: MissyMa

<< I am a complete TypeA and find the nicotine calms me down. >>

Me too.

The nicotine, that is, FRom a carton of 200 gauloise plain every two days plus a pipe and thirty-odd feet per day of good [Hoyo de Monterey] Cuban cigars -- and, later on, a box of 8Mg Nicorettes -- every day.

<< I tried quitting once but became a witch. >>

Me too -- and stayed quit -- and ........

HehHehheh


55 posted on 07/17/2004 8:01:21 PM PDT by Brian Allen (I am a Hyphenated American -- Thank God -- An AMERICAN-American! -- And a Dollar-A-Day FReeper.)
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To: EggsAckley

Pinging you again, Marlboro gal, to this post... I really want your input on this. :-)


56 posted on 07/17/2004 8:01:23 PM PDT by KangarooJacqui (http://www.RightGoths.com/ - Gothic. Freaky. Conservative. Wear black and be proud!)
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To: LouisWu

I was at a party earlier this evening and there was some talk about some gay folks most of us know and I mentioned about this local small town pub in Delaware that was a great little joint that was devastated by the smoking ban and so the guy who had owned it for 30 some odd years sdold it. It's now a gay bar. I had related this story at lunch yesterday and my one friend couldn't believe it....his attitude was how could they ruin such a great little place. This guy happens to be gay......Well as I told this story my husband chimed in that he is also a Republican.

This one gal, who I had never met made a deragatory comment about "on of them" and I automatically assumed she was referring to the fact he is homosexual.....she corrected me quickly by saying she didn't care about that.the "them" she was referring to was Republican.

I left the poor woman speechless.....because she had no clue what I meant when I told her "I just dislike socialists."


57 posted on 07/17/2004 8:01:30 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's driving has killed more people than second hand smoke)
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To: TheLion

Smoking and cell phoning together is a rare sight. Seeing people waving their arms and hearing them talk to nobody is somewhat similar to seeing schizophrenics talk to invisible people in the air on city streets.


58 posted on 07/17/2004 8:02:54 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: EGPWS

Nothing personal, but the only thing that affects my posts is maintaining my ability to post.


59 posted on 07/17/2004 8:04:35 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's driving has killed more people than second hand smoke)
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To: RightWhale

I was just giving you a hard time...lol. Really, there might be some connection.

I wish they would ban the damn cell phones from use while driving a vehicle. I have almost been run over twice by people on these things!


60 posted on 07/17/2004 8:07:51 PM PDT by TheLion
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