Regina "I don't smoke" Benjamin, Surgeon General.
Posted on 12/10/2010 7:11:04 PM PST by Krankor
Even brief exposure to tobacco smoke — from, say, an occasional puff or secondhand smoke — can damage DNA in ways that lead to cancer, according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s first new report on tobacco in four years.
“Tobacco smoke damages almost every organ in your body,” surgeon general Regina Benjamin said in the report released Thursday. In someone with underlying heart disease, Benjamin said, “One cigarette can cause a heart attack.”
One in five deaths nationwide is attributed to cigarettes, according to the report — about the same percentage of adults and older teens who smoke.
The 700-page report also sheds lights on why cigarettes are so addictive: Cigarettes today are designed to deliver nicotine more quickly and efficiently than they did decades ago, making them more likely to hook first-time users and to keep older smokers coming back. For instance, adding ammonia converts nicotine into a form that gets to the brain faster, and sugar and “moisture enhancers” reduce the burning sensation, making smoking more pleasant, especially for new smokers.
“The timing of this report is important for Illinois, where some members of the General Assembly are trying to create exemptions to the Smoke-Free Illinois law for casinos, racetracks and off-track betting venues,” said Joel Africk, head of the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.
This is pure unadulterated Bull sh-t.
This never-smoked-a-puff lady agrees!
So if this is correct....
Our dear pres is a murderer?
Good Lord, anyone who’s ever just tried smoking would drop dead if this were true, eh? sheesh...
I was thinking we did not have a surgeon general..she has to pick on something as she cannot get on the obesity band wagon with Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is on. as she could use a case or two of slim fast..
“Monifa?”
Yep, he’s either killing his kids, Michelle or the Secret Service Agents.
Every puff hurts a kitten somewhere in the world.
Regina "I don't smoke" Benjamin, Surgeon General.
THat was exactly what I thought.
SHOW ME THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF!
They have NONE!
This as well as the global warming crap tries to measure something that is either too big(global warming) or too small(one puff of smoke) to really document.
However, I do believe cell phones have a negative effect on the brain of heavy users( I have no evidence, just seems like it would)
Hmmm perhaps we should contact wikileaks....lol
Someone should tell Regina that every Ding-Dong and Twinkie causes damage.
And doing, um, well, you know what, only once will cause you to become immediately blind.
How ‘bout Mary Jane?
Geez,
Why wasn’t I stepping over bodies when I worked in major corporations in the US and Japan in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s? I still work in a giant corp, name starts with a “W”.
All the men’s rooms still have ashtrays above the urinals, and in the stalls. (Just a blast from the past.)
Amazing, dead bodies should have been piling up at the doors!!
AND GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!!
Liberals, Marxists, Collectivists are the dumbest people on God’s earth. If you are a “stateist”, you are stupid and ignorant.
Oh, well. Times they are a changing.
Can I do it until I need glasses?
I never thought there’d be a Surgeon General who’d make Joycelyn Elders look good.
Yeah, she’ll die, too. No one is exempt.
If the human body was this ridiculously fragile, we’d have gone extinct tens or thousands of years ago.
The playpen world that they want us to live in gets more and more intolerable.
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