I don’t recommend or like the British commie medical system, but in merry old England you are denied heart surgery until you are smoke free for several months. They ration care to those who might actually benefit from the large outlay of money.
Since smoking contributes to so many diseases, even if the heart surgery works, the increased kidney, lung and other metabolic diseases will shorten the smokers life so why waste the effort if the patient is unwilling to participate in their own health care.
When I say smoking, every body assumes you are jumping on tobacco. It doesn’t matter if you are smoking oak leaves or huffing on your cars tail pipe. It is really the carbon monoxide poisoning that is the bad actor. CO binds up the hemoglobin so your body is deprived of oxygen. So your heart has to beat more to send what little O2 bearing hemoglobin around in constricted vessels which equals hypertension. Hypertension is very hard on your kidneys and eyes.
There are two ways to get a big radiation dose. One is to get a big burst all at once. The other is to put a small pellet in an area for a long time and after awhile the area has been exposed to a big dose. There is a lot of uranium in the soil in very minute quantities. There is also a lot in coal dust. All plants will pick up the uranium. If you eat it, it passes in a few hours so not much exposure to the gamma rays. If you inhale it and it sticks in your lung, then it may take several years before you move it back up to where it you hock it up. In the mean time you get a big radiation exposure which = cancer.
Why do people smoke tobacco? Nicotine. You put nicotine in oak leaves and people would smoke trees. Take nicotine out of tobacco and nobody would want it. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man. Nicotine in and of itself is not so bad. It is all the crap transported with the nicotine that does the harm.
Want people to stop smoking? Pay the farmer to produce tobacco with less nicotine. Over time people will lose their dependence on tobacco. However, the government will never lose its dependence on the tax revenues they get from tobacco. The science is straight forward. Dealing with the government and individual addictions are not.
“I don’t recommend or like the British commie medical system, but in merry old England you are denied heart surgery until you are smoke free for several months. They ration care to those who might actually benefit from the large outlay of money.”
In other words, you won’t admit that you advocate communism.
What I said before:
“You have obviously thought this issue through and feel strongly about it, so I’m sure you can clear these things up for me.”
I was wrong.