I know what you mean. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Posted on 09/20/2007 7:06:29 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
You know as well as I do that the alleged “health” risks were only brought to light during the Third Reich in Germany and then in the US in 1964.
Amazing. In '92 I paid $15 per pound for American Spirit. They got bigger and stopped selling it by the pound. The price almost doubled. Now, with CO taxes, I pay about $57 per pound. Of course that's wayyyy cheaper then buying packaged cigarettes.
I think it's about time for a Boston Tea Party.
Someone has to supply the hookah bars popping up everywhere.
So right that tobacco was a king in agriculture! I find this exciting. Like returning to our roots.
I don’t even want to think about what I spend . I need to quit asap but never seem to find the right time in this crazy house.
Al Gore’s sister died of lung cancer which he blames on her smoking habit. Of course, millions of octogenarians today smoked their whole lives and are still here.
But Al is on a jihad to save the world. Of course, nobody would want to live in the world that he saves.
There have already been recent reports that tobacco smokers have fewer respiratory viral infections. Come to think of it I haven’t had a cold in over 35 years and haven’t had the flu in over 25 years.
The right time isn’t in your house. It’s in your mind. ;^)
I love Milton Friedman! What a wise and knowledgeable man. Fearless and fierce as a free market economist. That quote is a keeper.
Well I guess I will have to think on that ...I want the laser treatment. I am so afraid of gaining weight. But smoking may be worse for me then a little more weight I guess.
I know what you mean. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
My mother and father-in-law smoked like chimneys for msot of their adult life. They quit, cold turkey, in their 60s and never had emphysema nor cancer.
The truth is that people get lung cancer who have never smoked a cigarette in their lives. Where is the proof, the link, that shows that lung cancer comes from smoking? There may not be any link whatsoever.
The most recent research suggests that carrots cause cancer.
According to the studies which our Gubmint has spent millions on giving our tax dollars to grant junkies in acadamia...
It has been discovered that EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS EVER DIED OF CANCER has eaten carrots.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Good night. I’m going to bed.
Thanks for the ping!
About 7 of every 100 smokers gets lung cancer. That's about twice the rate that non-smokers contract it. Not very many either way.
There was a scientific report I read a few years ago which revealed cigarette smoking helped protect the lungs against TB....and ....if you'd already been exposed...it helped to keep the virus encapsulated, which prevents the TB from activating.
That aside, tobacco was used at one time as a wormer for stock.
The problem I see with most of the research is the agenda...which makes it biased from the getgo. Are those 7 smokers out of the 100 ....people who live in industrial areas? Do they have jobs which have exposed them to any other carcinogens? Are those 7 predisposed to having cancer in the first place? You just never know.
Not subsidies, no handouts. The tobacco trade was regulated and farmers were given quotas, not cash.
If this is the definition of subsidies, then Hillary is right and giving back tax money rightfully and lawfully earned by the taxpayer is subsidizing the rich.
“...we now owe them some thanks for removing tobacco farmers from the welfare roles”
You obviously know nothing about raising tobacco if you think tobacco farmers are equal to welfare queens
Here's a statistic that doesn't need any sophisticated research and never gets much press; 100 per 100 people who are born will die.
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