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Dagobah Resident
Greetings. It's been a while since my last post here (i've been on "crackbook" a lot lately) but some may know that i'm wanting to do a video where i break down the tobacco situation more objectively.
Every question, as daniel said, leads to five more, so this is all going to take a while to put together, but i'm really excited to be working on this.
One of the things that is the most confusing to me, are the questions surrounding the relationships between the government, tobacco companies, etc. I'm reading these phillip morris documents right now, and what is interesting is that in their studies they found that nicotine is a "weak reinforcing agent".
think about that. "weak reinforcing agent". In laymens terms, they found the "addiction" to be more psychological, instead of physically, chemically addictive. This possibly explains what daniel found out about cigarette additives. Ammonia and other ingredients are added to make the product way more addictive than it should be.
and we are talking about a few thousand additives here!! so that's insane.
So if nicotine is a "weak reinforcing agent", it means that a large variety of factors can effect how much a person smokes. stress and depression are major factors but also boredom and other things.
They used acetaldehyde as an additive because it shows to be a "posotive reinforcer".
So basically, companies like marlboro don't care if you die, they aren't concerned with the benefits of nicotine, they want to sell product, gain a profit, bottom line.
Problem is, disinfo is spread about nicotine calling it a "poisonous substance" which is bullcrap! Not many people know what organic tobacco is, or that it exists, or that it can be good for you.
So im done blabbing, but if anyone has ideas or suggestinos for the video, don't hold back. :D
Every question, as daniel said, leads to five more, so this is all going to take a while to put together, but i'm really excited to be working on this.
One of the things that is the most confusing to me, are the questions surrounding the relationships between the government, tobacco companies, etc. I'm reading these phillip morris documents right now, and what is interesting is that in their studies they found that nicotine is a "weak reinforcing agent".
think about that. "weak reinforcing agent". In laymens terms, they found the "addiction" to be more psychological, instead of physically, chemically addictive. This possibly explains what daniel found out about cigarette additives. Ammonia and other ingredients are added to make the product way more addictive than it should be.
and we are talking about a few thousand additives here!! so that's insane.
So if nicotine is a "weak reinforcing agent", it means that a large variety of factors can effect how much a person smokes. stress and depression are major factors but also boredom and other things.
They used acetaldehyde as an additive because it shows to be a "posotive reinforcer".
So basically, companies like marlboro don't care if you die, they aren't concerned with the benefits of nicotine, they want to sell product, gain a profit, bottom line.
Problem is, disinfo is spread about nicotine calling it a "poisonous substance" which is bullcrap! Not many people know what organic tobacco is, or that it exists, or that it can be good for you.
So im done blabbing, but if anyone has ideas or suggestinos for the video, don't hold back. :D