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Quote by: Marilyn Monroe  You're saying the other pollutants and stress are what is actually causing the smokers to get lung cancer at a higher rate than their non-smoking counterparts.
I found this to be a good article on the topic. Really read it, and then investigate what it says, then come back and dispute it. What's In a Cigarette, 599 Ingredients in a Cigarette
According to this article, it's not trace amounts of poisons in cigarettes, and cigarettes are a pollutant to everyone, not just the smoker. I believe it. If anything the government has been too easy on cigarette manufacturers. |
The web page was of course bias in the fact they want you to buy their chewing gum to stop smoking.
They only mentioned the trace amonot of one chemical that is found in cigarette smoke. 5 points of one billion. Like I said, nearly an undectable amount and known about to governmental regulators who set the standards for what percentage is concidered safe or not. That amount is well below the trace amounts allowed by governmental standards (the ariticle failed to note what that standard does allow for - being they are bias and do not want you to know all the facts).
They only said that 5 of the chemicals were viewed as a possible cause of cancer but they did not provide details about trace amounts or if those amounts were higher then the safety standards set by governmental regulators of polution. The secret stuff others worried about turned out to be flavorings used in candy products.
The majority of the scary information is based on guess work that is totally impossible for them to even confirm realistically. They added up all the numbers of all smokers to determine how many tons of tar they all consume over a years time. Based on an idea that each smoker would take puff after puff on each cigarette consumed through-out that year, using up the total cigarette without wasting any of it.
That nonsense is totally non-scientific and does not even meet the benchmarks for junk science let alone real science. But it might scare some people into buying a few packs of the nicotine gum they are promoting.
They basially created their own facts which in truth do not even exsist.
I said that stress is the main cause of disease, as well as micro life forms (germs). As well as some pollutants such as coal dust, etc.
I am agnostic about fossil fuel or other such pollutants being a cause unless one is already out-of-balance due to stress. I have not seen any reports that a lot of animals, birds, or even household pets, are suffering from a high rate of cancer or they they are all having pre-mature heart attacks. Which should be the case if air-quality is doing that in humans.
The reason why shamans introduced smoking is because that is the fastest way to get medicene into the system or to the brain. Where as digesting it as a food would take much longer and would have less of an impact. That is why medical pot is being promoted over pills containing the same chemicals.
Nicotine is a medicene used to calm down the nervious system when that system is over stemulated by stress. That is what they used it for, not to look cool and what-have-you. It might be possible to use that method someday to introduce other medical drugs into the body.