Death and Illness
Only $5 a Pack
This story on NBC News today tells us that ever since the 1960s, cigarette makers have tried to seduce smokers worried about their health with products labeled “light,” “mild” or “low-tar.” They’ve been basing such claims on so called US Government tests that measure tar and nicotine levels.
I still have a vision of my father lying in a hospital bed, dying of lung cancer while smoking hospital provided low nicotine and tar cigarretts. That was almost 30 years ago and he was only 62 years old.
Today, 42 years after the US Government endorsed those tests, the federal government essentially called the test bogus.
Now the Federal Trade Commission wants tobacco companies to remove its stamp of approval for those tests from their ads and packaging.
Uh Oh!
Here come the lawyers!
July 10th, 2008 at 2:38 am
As I sit here drinking a new blueberry flavored Gevalia cup of joe, I’m thinking of what should be put on a package of cigs as a warning label . Something like this for a reality check:
Cigarettes gook up the fine little eyelash like oxygen receptors in your lungs with tar and nicotene and thus block the absorption of precious oxygen to the blood. This destroy cells in the heart which can never grow back, weakening the heart. Many times that residue in the lungs forms tumors, to keep it in one place, so the rest of the body can function. Bladder cancer, and other cancers are more common in smokers. Cigarettes rob your system of calcium, B vitamins and vitamin C, and give you an agressive aging issue. Eighty-five percent of smoker die from the habit. There are toxic and addictive ingredients added to cigarettes that make them extra habit forming and poisonous. Smoking a joint is 400 times more of everything above, really coats those oxygen receptors and that is why you get really high, and can barely do anything but think, so oxygen starved is your body. Pot smokers have heart and depression problems later in life if they don’t quit.
If you want to have a cigarette break, try having a stretch break, or an instrument learning break, a cup of tea, read a book, find a happy place, help others. Cut back until you quit, you won’t die from quitting, but you’ll probably die from continuing.