Smoking produces changes in human brain like those in animals using illicit drugs

Eurekalert ^ | 02/21/07 | Society for Neuroscience

[HonestConservative]

Gee. I had no idea that the City Zoo was a gold mine for me illicit drug trade.

Gotta go.........

[Nate505]

I can't wait to see it outlawed. It's worked with weed, so it must work with tobacco....

[nothingnew]

I guess I'm now a drug addicted animal.......oh well,.....it probably isn't far from the truth,......but I LIKE IT!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Jaysun]

Hopefully you also quit sitting in the middle of the room licking your nads.
;-)

Yes, of course. But not because I quit smoking. I started licking my nads in the middle of the room years after I'd already quit smoking. I threw out my back and got too fat to bend in the necessary manner. However, I can still drag my ass across the carpet if I really work at it.

[eXe]

Yup more propaganda..

I expect to see headlines like this soon..

"Smoking makes your brain explode"

"Smoking makes your eyes pop out of your head"

And the sheeple will lap it up and call for even more bans..

[ProfoundMan]

Yeah, but phrases like "New research shows for the first time " just reek of " I support your FDA move, fund ME, fund ME! I've no doubt that there's previous literature and that it'll be used, but there wasn't a push for FDA regulation then as there is now.

I am a smoker and probably paranoid, but I already can't smoke in most places, people speak of me as a smelly, dirty person who steals the health of those around me and I pay through my habit hundreds (if not thousands)of dollars a year that were supposed to help me and my kind but instead went into the coffers of the bureaucrats to spend for their aggrandizement. And yes,I am in fear of what they'll do to me next for using a LEGAL product.

The only small joy I'll get out of most of that is the wry smile I'll have when they turn their new found tools against someone else.

[ProfoundMan]

There's a sarcasm tag in there somewhere, isn't there?

[Grizzled Bear]

Yes, of course. But not because I quit smoking.
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FReepers have the best sense of humors! Another FReeper posted this. I don't remember who it was but maybe it was you! I think you will like it.
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The Purina Diet

I have a Golden retriever & I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.
I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a guy who was behind her. Horrified, she asked if I'd ended up in the hospital in that condition because I had been poisoned. I told her no; it was because I'd been sitting in the street licking my gonads and a car hit me.
I thought one guy was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard as he staggered out the door.

[Jaysun]

Thanks, that's a great story. It wasn't me that posted it.

[Nate505]

Probably :)

[Syllojism]

My friends sheepdog shaved her own head last week, checked into rehab on a Monday and left the next day.

That's a week in dog years.

[soupcon]

LOL

[libertarian27]

You can reach?
Reminds me of a scene in 'Clerks' LOL