OUG is right; keep on lighting them up, your death with smoking, will be helping others you dont even know.



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Yabby <"People like Renee Bittoun understand the complexity of it all, clearly your average nurse does not."

Actually Yabby, I am not only a nurse (obviously a hated creature on this thread!), but my husband was also a heavy smoker for 15 years.
He used some nicotine patches to stop within 3 weeks.

My brother and sister-in-law still smoke unfortunately.
Do you realise how awful it is to know what is possibly ahead of them, but not be able to stop them?

It is frustrating and it makes me angry that tobacco companies are allowed to keep peddling their deadly products. I don't blame the tobacco addicts for their habit at all.

Hasbeen<"The medical association have nothing to gain by spinning tobacco you say. I believe they started the whole war on tobacco in an attempt to distract attention from the fact that they, including nurses, kill more people with their poor workmanship than all the drugs put together."

Where on earth did you get that 'fact' from Hasbeen?
Maybe from a medical lawyers handbook?

I think it best if you stay away from those nasty hospitals, and let the predominantly dedicated medical staff continue working at saving the lives of far more people than have negative experiences in hospitals.

I realise some people hate to have the truth pointed out to them, when they are comfortable with wearing rose coloured glasses...

"I realise some people hate to have the truth pointed out to them,,,,Sue.....truth is something people havent of heard or seen in a very very long time.

Its like religion, all are in control until mother/nature shows how and who,s realy in control. How small we have become.

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uog

I'm curious about your views on morality and substance use. You seem to feel yourself the subject of persecution because of tobacco use. Is your concern based on your belief that smoking has no effect on a person's health? Do you consider yourself to be addicted to tobacco, and would you feel that this was a moral failing were it so?

As a lung cancer researcher, I say go right ahaead and ban tobacco.

As a watcher of the news, I might suggest that banning tobacco will result in stronger product being sold on the black market, at unknown volumes, tax free, grown hydroponically under lights if need be. Given that the consumer will have a greater choice of providers, it may be that quality will go up, adulteration will be down and absolute harm done will be down due to more "bang" per buck.

I will not shed a tear for big tobacco, however. Their shareholders can go bust for all of me.

Good luck to prohibition, it will need it.

Rusty

Rusty, well why not make all of gods drugs becomes the, "USE AT YOUR OWN RISK" that way, one can avoid all callings to the matters.

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