Bombastic 'Mo

“THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS A NAZI DICTATORSHIP USING NAZI PSEUDO-SCIENCE TO PERSECUTE INNOCENT PEOPLE!”

I stumbled across this link while reading a great story on a new smoking ban in California.  That momentous step forward aside, I wanted to draw your attention to this outstanding, upright citizen’s website.

http://www.smokershistory.com/

Titled “The Conspiracy against Tobacco”, the site is one long, rambling rant against Anti-Smokers.  Someone needs their nicotine fix.  Some of my personal favorites:

“For six decades we, the American people, have been victimized by deliberate, knowing scientific fraud, perpetrated by the American Cancer Society and its accomplices, and funded by their corrupt lackeys in Congress, whose goal is totalitarian dictatorship over every detail of our personal lives!”

And of course:

“Worthless Congresspussies Still Bend Over for the Anti-Smokers!

These brain-dead, spineless pieces of human junk should be holding hearings exposing the anti-smokers’ deliberate, systematic, and decades-long use of defective studies that ignore infection, to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle for diseases that are really caused by infection - not sniveling about slippery slopes like a bunch of stupid little children.”

If anything I ever create comes across this ugly and completely incomprehensible, please put a stop to me.

“The health fascists turned America into a giant Tuskegee Experiment!
Infectious diseases are the leading preventable causes of death in the United States and throughout the world, and always have been. By their obstruction of the truth, the anti-smoking conspirators have caused the needless deaths and suffering of uncounted millions. They have compounded their crimes by persecuting the innocent, and stealing their victims’ money to line their own over-privileged pockets, under the pretext of the Big Lie that smoking is an economic burden to society. Morally, the anti-smokers deserve to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, and hanged like the loathsome criminals that they are.
We must have REVENGE! REVENGE! REVENGE! for everything they’ve done to us! Never forgive and never forget their crimes!”

Cancer update: Your Ottoman’s smoking habit is deadly

According to a new article by Scientific American, third hand smoke is yet another way PhilipMorris can kill your children.

According to Jonathan Winickoff, a pediatrician in the Boston-based Harvard Cancer Center, “third-hand smoke is tobacco smoke contamination that remains after the cigarette has been extinguished.”

Third hand smoke contains some of the same toxins as second and first hand smoke, but has comparably little notoriety.

Children, babies in particular, are especially endangered as they tend to crawl around on carpets and furniture, materials which are most likely to retain some of the toxins from third hand smoke.  Their proximity to these materials means they inhale more dust than adults: taking their diminutive body-size into account, children inhale 20 times the amount of dust.

The article also cites the well known fact that the developing brain is much more susceptible to even low amounts of toxins, you know, those found in cigarettes.  As three concrete examples, the article mentions:

• Lead:  a substance that has been associate to diminished IQ in even small levels.
• Cyanide: used in chemical weapons and the teeth of secret agents.
• Arsenic: aka Rat Poison.

With all of this information about how completely nasty cigarette smoke is, CNN took the story a step further and looked to investigate why the hell so many people continue to smoke.

The CDC reports approximately 43.4 million Americans smoke.  The CNN article even has a great graphic illustrating smoking rates per state.   Washington state boasts an amazing 16.8% smoking rate, which is drastically lower than the rates in the majority of the Midwest (save Mormon-heavy-Utah..).  It’s also below the U.S. average of 19.8%.  Interestingly enough, it doesn’t coincide heavily yet with states that have enacted smoking bans.

The CNN article draws some really interesting conclusions:

• The prevalence of smoking has a direct correlation to education status, which often is equivalent to income status.
• Approximately 90% of smokers start smoking in high school.  (When we’re all uneducated.)
• Groups of severely disadvantaged people have smoking rates of more than 40%.
• It’s disgustingly hard to quit.

On a personal level, I’ve never wanted to smoke because of the blatantly obvious health detriments, both to myself and to those around me.  I often found it hard to stand up for myself when I was around friends who smoke, as many are oblivious to how heinous it is to be in the presence of their smoke.  With the knowledge that a night spent around second hand smoke now turns me into a toxic offender, I think (at least hope) it’ll be easier to avoid spending extended periods of time around smokers inside.

I’d also hope to see more smoke-free homes.