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Drifting off tangent... or, smoke gets in your eyes... :cool2:
I've always wondered about the correlations between smoking and the increased health issues. What I mean is...
- Why wasn't smoking considered more dangerous back through the 18th, 19th, and early 20th Centuries than it is now? Was it that no one noticed, or is it something else?
- Was the more sophisticated and polished marketing, starting with the rise of radio and later television, responsible for the majority of the health issues that came about (or were noticed, finally) in the late 1950's & 1960's?
- Or was it something else? Was Big Tobacco's research into making a "better" cigarette actually designed to make a "better" smoke, or a more addictive one?
(And yes, I know that these aren't necessarily "true/false - yes/no" answers... that these and other factors are all interrelated.)
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1) People didn't live as long back then.
2) The more industrialized we became the more carcinogens (or possibility of) we were exposed to. Add smoking and it became a 1, 2 punch.
3) The tobacco and process was manipulated to make a more addictive cigarette. Basically they turned it into crack. This is the part where you're supposed to say that you wouldn't know what that's like. The addition of chemicals also created more chemicals as a result of combustion.
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Also people most likely didn't smoke as much. An occasional pipe or an after dinner cigar. A friend of mine described his grandfathers idea of smoking. It consisted of lighting up a 5 cent stogie after dinner, taking a puff or two and then dropping it in the ashtray and letting it go out while he fell asleep.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
WRT # 1 & #2 above, yes, absolutely, these are also additional factors.
WRT # 3... the only crack I'm familiar with has to do with certain female articles of clothing, or more accurately, what portions of the female anatomy that get exposed when, while wearing said articles of clothing, they, ah, well,, contort in the proper direction. Well, that, and concrete sidewalks that have been excessively weathered, and things like that.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 2K!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
Fertilizer is already present in the plant due to over fertilization in the fields. Add to that carbamide peroxide, allantoin, hydantoin and ammonium chloride. You have something that makes it absorb in the lungs faster and causes an instant increase in heart rate delivering every one of those 7000 chemicals to the brain faster and harder. This ain't your grandpa's Lucky Strike.
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
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