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Folks, the trends thing especially shows that GETTING RID OF SMOKE IS IN FACT NOT 'improving' ANYONE's health. Those are NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF IMAGINATION 'cause and effect' relationships!!!! They LIE LIE LIE about our health. I put on the bottom of both of those posters EXACTLY WHY I am SO HOT about this issue. I LOVED my parents, and I watched BOTH of them suffer for DECADES the ILL HEALTH effects of their QUITTING smoking. MY dad's WEIGHT killed him about ten years AFTER he quit smoking (when he was almost 80). He's actually WON A TENNIS TOURNAMENT when he was almost 70, as a 50+ YEAR TWO PACK OF KENTS - weren't THOSE the ones in the Rose Cipalone case, with the ASBESTOS FILTERS??? - a DAY plus he smoked a PIPE. Oh, it was an amateur tournament (he was a retired engineer) - but in LOS ANGELES, so it was BIG and very competitive. He had put on some weight as he got older, but he was FIT. Then he remarried an antismoker, and he quit. I WATCHED him spend the REST OF HIS LIFE hardly able to WALK, let alone play tennis, DUE TO THE WEIGHT he gained after quitting. BTW, his new younger NEVER smoker wife kicked the bucket about 5 YEARS before he did.
And, everywhere I go, and talk to folks, and yes, believe it or not (those of you who have met me) I don't ONLY talk, I LISTEN FAR MORE than some realize
I won't even start about my mom, the short version is she quit at only TWENTY years old, right after I was born, and died of breast cancer at 60 (only ONE year older than I am now), after an ENTIRE ADULT LIFE spent as an INVALID (or semi-invalid) due to SEVERAL of those things on that sign!!!
Nearly everyone I LISTEN to is telling me of a parent, brother, friend, etc. whose health problems STARTED AFTER they QUIT smoking! The 'high risk' of lung cancer among smokERS actually IS NOT among smokers, but among EXsmokers. For at least forty YEARS these so called 'studies' have LUMPED smokers & EXsmokers into a SINGLE category 'EVER smokers', and they FALSELY say smokERS have a higher risk of LC, when actually the HIGHEST risk is among EXsmokers. BY the way, the DRUG companies are laughing ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK.
The WHOLE 'smoking isn't healthy' bit is EVERY BIT AS PHONY as the 'humans are causing global warming' thing. And watch and listen, the climate change hoax is borrowing ALL the SAME tactics, and even using the SAME RHETORIC as the anti-smoking hoax. Yes, you are ADDICTED to OIL - you are BAD (demonize those who turn up their thermostats in winter because they don't want their babies to freeze, etc), then JUSTIFY EXTORTION every time someone turns on a light switch, justify adding EXTORTION to the price of a gallon of gas, etc. BOTH hoaxes (anti-smoking AND 'climate change) are JUSTIFIED NOT by 'mountains' of 'science', but by MOUNTAINS of JUNK 'science'. These EVIL people are PSYCHOLOGICALLY MANIPULATING every one of us, and UNTIL the TRUTH comes out they WILL CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH IT. In the case of anti-smoking, if you follow the MONEY as some of us have, you will find the PHARMACEUTICAL industry financing and driving it. If you follow the $$$$$$ on the 'climate change' hoax, you will find GE as well as some very big politicians (many who are invested in SELLING CARBON CREDITS - INCLUDING BARAK OBAMA, and of course Al Gore) behind that.
EVERY ONE of US must find out the truth, and promote THAT, or WE ARE STILL PART OF THE PROBLEM.
It should be well known that there IS such a thing as the Placebo effect. There is ALSO a NOcebo effect - yes, some SMOKERS GET SICK JUST BECAUSE they've been told over and over and over again that smoking is making them sick. Our minds and bodies ARE WIRED together. Folks tell me all the time how much better they feel because they quit smoking. OF COURSE they do, they are feeling a PLACEBO effect. Can't tell you how much better I FEEL since I learned smoke is mostly WATER VAPOR, and the pics of supposedly black 'smoker's' lungs are actually COAL MINER'S BLACK LUNG DISEASE (or sometimes DOCTORED PIG'S lungs) : )))) NEWS FLASH - if you smoke, you MIGHT have 'black lungs' IF YOU'RE ALSO A COAL MINER! Folks THAT sort of thing goes WAY BEYOND propaganda and disinformation. THAT is in the category of OUT RIGHT BIG FAT WHOPPING LIE FRAUD.
I can understand those who just don't 'like' to be confrontational or too controversial to want to avoid dealing with the whole 'smoking REALLY IS BAD for you' issue. But geesh, how about, if you don't want to be so controversial, just AVOID that whole subject. We should NEVER help spread the lies.
Lynda Farley,
American Smokers Party 29 Comments [12/18/2013 6:16:19 AM]
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