Hi, I agree totally.
They even wear those white robe things to look like Jesus in his his white robe. Like the "divine healer" of all our woes.
Part of the deceptive image.
Now lets look at some information a doctor might use and see how worthy it really is.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/tobacco/f...rt_disease.html
They give a breif reason. and then add a bunch of stuff that states "percentages" but with no information about the study or how they came up with those percentage numbers. The public is expected to believe it on faith.
It is like I could do a study, and prove that 95 percent of all people who get heart attacks watch TV for a least two hours per day. So does watching TV the cause of the heart attack? Do you have a 95 percent greater chance of getting heart problems because you are exposed to TV programs? The fact is nearly everyone is exposed to the same TV activity just like nearly everyone is exposed to 2nd hand smoke.
Not withstanding that everyone would be exposed to carbon toxics from car tailpipes and that would have a far greater impact then 2nd hand smoke.
The heart must pump faster to get more H-2 o - well what about jogging or running? How can making you heart pump faster in sports be any different? But if the heart is healthy then pumping faster or slowing down would not be a problem no matter what caused it to do so. And the lungs would filter out most of the bad stuff anyway before it gets into the blood. Our body was constructed with that fire wall for a reason.
But is the doctor going to lecture you about getting exposed to car emssions? Is he going to ask you what chemicals you might be breathing as polution at your work place - other then ciggarette smoke?
Will he prescibe to the government that we need to prevent those illnesses by eliminating smog generating vehicles?
By regulating polutions in the work place?
One main problem is work related mental stress. Stress is one of the main causes - but a doctor deals in physical causes and so they avoid the topic of stress. Stress which can manifest as fear or hatred can directly effect the activities of the heart. But in the workplace - or being a mom with active kids, cannot find expression and that over stemuation make the heart act facter then it should for the realistic activity of the body. Now - how many people smoke to subdue stress? So if people use cigarettes as their medicene to deal with stress then you end up with the same percentages. All the smokers who get a heart attack are also suffering from stress. Even if it is peer pressure stress. So (1) stress causes smoking. (2) stress causes heart attacks. But doctors will blame the smoking and and say little about the root cause which is stress. Because stress is a mental problem which is not in their department to treat (physical doctors). Stress causes both the smoking and the heart attack but the "percentage" numbers did not take into account the reals source of stress, only that those people smoked, so they missed the point.
Also, the doctors are totally unaware of the political motivations for blaming smokers instead of oil companys or work related stress at the rich man's factory.
In their opinion you cannot prevent stress at the workplace, you cannot prevent our need for cars, you cannot prevent the chopping down of forests where trees produce clean air. But they say, we can prevent people from smoking.
Well, I have ranted enough for right now. whatcha think?
Technosoul,