Tobacco

[mansworld]

For millennia, people have known the medicinal benefits of the tobacco plant. Only in the last decades; tobacco has been aggressively proclaimed harmful. Up until the 1950s, they even had doctors promoting them. Why is it so? The WHO states that " Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the World has ever faced." This statement is FALSE, because the tobacco itself doesn't present such a health threat; it is the modern tobacco products and dangerous chemical additives that present a threat. Tobacco is a potent medicinal plant. The mass-market cigarettes are made from tobacco scraps, stems, wood pulp, nicotine, toxic fire retardants and dangerous chemical additives.


Don't confuse tobacco with the hundreds of chemicals in the standard pack of smokes. A pack of Marlborough is not a pack of tobacco. Big difference.That's like saying that chlorinated pool water is safe to drink because it is water. Many cigarettes are poison sticks that have nothing to do with tobacco. Tobacco is exempt from being required to label the ingredients. All attempts to make labelling the ingredients obligatory has been smothered by the tobacco industry. In the US, the industry uses over 600 intentional chemical additives to blended cigarettes.


The oldest man who completed a full marathon at age 101 year, smoked since his teens and had few cigarettes through the race as well!


- A 112-year-old Da Lanwan from Yunnan province, China, enjoyed smoking since he was 18-year-old.


- Jeanne Louise Calment quit smoking at the age of 120.


- A 112-year-old woman from Nepal "Batuli Lamichhane" smoked cigarettes for 95 years.


- Richard Overton, WWII vets, aged 109, enjoys 12 cigars a day.


- Narayan Chaudhari, a Nepalese heavy smoker who lived to be 141-year-old, said the secret to his longevity is "raw tobacco and no alcohol."

[hemmjo]

That is a interesting point of view. Those are 6 examples of people who have beaten the odds. However there have been millions who have not had that experience with tobacco. For whatever reason.

Lots of plants have medicinal uses.

When I was a kid, I remember putting moist tobacco on bee stings, then covering it with a bandaid to hold it in place. However even in it's raw form, with nothing added, tobacco is toxic and highly addictive. It should be used carefully. As will all medical products, risks need to be considered along side the benefits.

There is an extensive list of "approved additives". This list certainly does not make me want to run out have a smoke. I have to admit, the smell of a hand rolled cigarette, made from freshly dried tobacco in the Dominican Republic smells totally different than the putrid odor of commercially made cigarettes.

One should also acknowledge that smoke, of any kind is not good for out lungs. Burning changes the chemical composition everything. One could look at the walls and furnishings in the home of a smoker and realize they do not want the nasty yellow residue in their lungs. I actually charge more when doing work in the home of a smoker. I often turn down the job if it is really bad. You know the instant you step inside.

Our bodies are very complex "machines" if you will. Of course we are the same in many aspects. But we are also very different in other, unseen and very poorly understood ways. Our systems interact with all environmental factors on many levels. Your body reacts differently to various inputs such as foods, medications, herbs than mine does.

Check out the book "Eat Right 4 your Type". It contains information regarding how blood type affects things you should and should not eat. I know I was surprised at the result of trying some of the suggestions.

Unfortunately the medical "industry" has way too much control over our lives and our treatments. They huge advertising budgets allow them to flood us with missleading information. They make more money selling drugs, and dismiss or try to undermine less costly, more natural solutions.

[NeiljohnUK]

Having applied for a job with British American Tobacco whilst unemployed in the 80's, as a machinist/production line support tech, I discovered some of what went into commercial cigarettes as the tobacco is reduced from leaf sheets to ultimately be extruded into the filament form used in cigarettes. I didn't smoke before and I certainly wouldn't after that, the stench in some parts of the factory was nauseating, though it seemed every line worker was immune to it, probably because they all smoked having a daily allowance from the line. Thankfully I didn't get the job, probably because I didn't smoke...

[jimfols]

When I was a kid driving trucks through North Carolina, Camel cigarettes were $1 a carton, that's 10 cents a pack.
I couldn't afford not to smoke.

[jimfols]

Quote "Check out the book "Eat Right 4 your Type". It contains information regarding how blood type affects things you should and should not eat. I know I was surprised at the result of trying some of the suggestions. "

Thanks for the links. I ordered the book.

I have been using Dr Robert Hass' book: 'Eat To Win The Sports Nutrition Bible' since 1983.
It has worked very well for me.