Oh … my … GOD. Never underestimate the tobacco industry’s power to come up with new ways to spread their evil. Yes, our favorite mass murderers are at it again! Massachusetts has been testing nicotine content in cigarette brands since 1998 and recently compiled the data from 1998 to 2004. They’re using a method that better mimics the way people really smoke cigarettes. Well, look at this … tobacco companies have been INCREASING the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. This gets by traditional testing with smoking machines because the tobac-asses have designed ventilation holes in the filter that foil the machine … but are usually covered up by smokers so that they receive a higher dosage of nicotine and are more likely to become addicted and remain addicted because of this.
These @#$%ers kill nearly half a million Americans every year, and they just keep getting away with it. Osama bin Laden is drooling at their body count! Imagine the Twin Towers falling every 2.5 days – that’s how many people tobacco kills. And the body count just keeps piling up …
If this evidence doesn’t lead to FDA regulation … damn, that’s illegal … nope, can’t do that either … FRACK! … (sigh) … well, I’ll be really mad. Man it sucks being civilized sometimes. Ahhh well … more fuel to my fire.
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black helicopter
// Sep 1, 2006 at 3:29 pm
how many people do the tobacco companies kill each year? i have yet to see any rep from the tobacco companies force anyone to light up a cig. maybe ford should be worried. more people are killed in auto accidents every minute than from smoking. should we do a study on the automakers for making such an addictive product? i just cant get over my addiction of that fast v-8, four on the floor, balls to the wall, acceleration. how can they do that to us? if the only would put a little 1 cylinder motor in those cars we could reduce the deaths caused by autos.
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knightindragonland
// Sep 1, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Tobacco companies target their products to children (over 80% of smokers start smoking before age 18, about half before age 16) – before the age of consent. I don’t have any sympathy for those stupid enough to start smoking after 18, but they’re targeting our children with slick hip-hop advertising, cartoon characters and candy-flavored cigarettes. They held back research indicating its toxic effects and addictive properties for decades. And now this study shows how they CONTINUE to enhance the addictive properties of cigarettes to keep people hooked.
And as far as your auto accident statistics … you’re just dead wrong. Car accidents kill about 1/10 the number of people that cigarettes do – there were 42,643 fatalities due to traffic accidents in 2003. 440,000 vs. 42000 … which number is bigger???
Transportation is a necessity in a modern society. It is REQUIRED for people to go to work, transport goods, etc. Smoking is a luxury – an addictive, suicidal luxury. Unfortunately, it’s a luxury that those addicted to it can’t just stop because the nicotine in cigarettes screws with the chemistry of their brains. Cigarettes are even more addictive than heroin and the tobacco companies are exploiting that to the detriment of us all.
Yes, it takes 20, 30, 40 years to kill. It’s much less dramatic than a bomb blast or even a car crash … but the body count is a hell of a lot higher.
If you don’t care about people dieing, then do you care about your own wallet? We’re all paying for it. A higher & higher percentage of our national income is going into healthcare. Cigarettes drive up healthcare costs. So we’re all paying for this with our tax dollars.
People throw up these smoke-screen arguments about it being the same as driving or eating – obesity and sedentary lifestyle cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year as well. The difference is that eating and transportation are NECESSITIES. Smoking only becomes a necessity to those who do it because of its addictive properties … addictive properties manipulated by the tobacco companies and targeted to the youth of the world before the age of consent.
So do you find drug dealers to be upstanding citizens as well, Black Helicopter? They exploit the same mechanism.
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Kate
// Sep 1, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I started smoking when I was 6. It makes me want to cry when I hear from my daughter that I will die from it. I will die, more than likely, much earlier than I should because of my addiction. I know it. It breaks my heart to know I will miss some of my childrens lives, and yet I continue to do it. I would say that qualifies as an addiction.
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black helicopter
// Sep 5, 2006 at 2:40 pm
very compeling argument. you win .
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some guy
// Sep 21, 2006 at 11:53 pm
It is also clear that anti-depressants often lead to suicide, and pills are addictive. The FDA are crooks. Pills only temporarily work and very few are safe. Pills lead to cancer…its a proven fact.
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knightindragonland
// Sep 22, 2006 at 12:36 am
Uhhhhhh … what??? What kind of cancer-causing pills are you talking about? Dioxin tabs? Benzene capsules?
Depression leads to suicide, and physicians who just put their patients on antidepressants without proper monitoring and counseling can get burned becasue often the antidepressants start to work just enough to break the inertia of a deep major depressive episode but the patient is still very depressed. Thus, while the antidepressant is beginnning to work, the patient taking them is at increased risk of suicide because their energy level has increased. Some antidepressants do have the side effect of agitation which can also increase the risk of a suicide attempt.
Every drug that works has side effects. Every drug that someone claims has no side effects probably doesn’t have ANY effects period (other than a placebo effect, of course – something impressively powerful).
Ohhhh … what does this have to do with smoking??????
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