Smoking is... good?

[Fluffy]

I am not big fan of idea that nicotine cures all diseases, but not many people know that nicotine was used as natural remedy against aphids in garden. Maybe nicotine kills some germs/parasites in our body, and that's why people feels better.

A hair analysis test reveals that my 12 year old daughter is highly reactive to nicotine, so for her it would cause all kinds of problems, certainly not a cure all.

 

[neonix]

A hair analysis test reveals that my 12 year old daughter is highly reactive to nicotine, so for her it would cause all kinds of problems, certainly not a cure all.

I'm not specialist in nicotine, but I read that nicotine in high dosage could be toxic. In small dosage could be healthy (in some cases). I don't think small children need nicotine anyway (they usually don't have health problems like adults or old people). But maybe your daughter is allergic to commercial cigarettes. Many additional substances that are added to commercial cigarettes, increases nicotine reactivity (or acts as allergens itself). When I was young, I don't liked cigarettes (I don't need them), but I noticed that different brands of cigarettes smells different (smoke). When I was young I had very good smell. Nowadays I know, is not because different tobacco brands, but additional substances can change smell of smoke.

 

[Fluffy]

I'm not specialist in nicotine, but I read that nicotine in high dosage could be toxic. In small dosage could be healthy (in some cases). I don't think small children need nicotine anyway (they usually don't have health problems like adults or old people). But maybe your daughter is allergic to commercial cigarettes. Many additional substances that are added to commercial cigarettes, increases nicotine reactivity (or acts as allergens itself). When I was young, I don't liked cigarettes (I don't need them), but I noticed that different brands of cigarettes smells different (smoke). When I was young I had very good smell. Nowadays I know, is not because different tobacco brands, but additional substances can change smell of smoke.

She doesn’t smoke, or have any other contact than may be some second hand smoke and aroma from me, I smoke additive free RYO (used to be organic RYO until the Australian govt. banned it past July ) so she doesn’t come in contact with any of the chemicals from ready made cigs.

I’m sure that one day she’ll experiment with smoking or vaping like most kids do even though she knows that nicotine is in her no-no list. I hope she will tell me so I can watch out for any reactions that she might miss or underestimate.

 

[Niall]

Russian MPs to back groundbreaking smoking ban – speaker

I guess everyone has their blind spots. I especially find Putin’s comment hilarious. Dude is so old-school he is stuck in the 80’s view of smoking; people smoke to look cool.

I'm off to have a smoke with my sunglasses on, so I look cool!

Update on Putin's naive uptake of anti-smoking culture:

Putin greenlights idea of fully banning vapes in Russia

In short, RU is moving "in lock-step with" the rest of the "civilized world."

The latest lingo the anti-smoking crusaders in globalist think-tanks are using is 'The Endgame':

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an international treaty that aims to reduce the demand and supply of tobacco. It entered into force in February 2005, and as of 2023, there are 183 Parties to the treaty.

Article 3 of the WHO FCTC establishes that “the objective of this Convention and its protocols is to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke by providing a framework for tobacco control measures to be implemented by the Parties at the national, regional and international levels in order to reduce continually and substantially the prevalence of tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke”.

The tobacco ‘endgame’ is the concept of moving beyond a focus on tobacco control, towards implementing policies and strategies that could phase out tobacco products entirely. According to Cancer Research UK, among others, this would require systemic changes, including:

"initiatives designed to change/eliminate permanently the structural, political and social dynamics that sustain the tobacco epidemic, in order to achieve within a specific time an endpoint for the tobacco epidemic."

This could involve the reduction of prevalence of smoking to – or very close to – zero.