Thread: Tabaco: To smoke or not to smoke?

I'm being tempted into start smoking again. Ignoring the made up health hazards, all the rules on it seems like such a pain atleast on the US. Is it a real bitch for you American smokers? Do you employees care? Are child protective services ready to fuck you up the ass if you smoke at home with children?


Tell us your experience my brave 25% percent.

Originally Posted by Reich

Whose children are you planning to smoke at home with, IM?

Perhaps most shockingly, tobacco smoke's anti-inflammatory effects may actually provide some benefits to children who are exposed to secondhand smoke. While this is certainly not worth at-home experimentation, one astonishing study conducted in Sweden observed two generations of Swedish children and found that the children of smokers had lower rates of allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, atopic eczema, and food allergies. The studied groups included 6909 adults and 4472 children, and the findings remained consistent, even when adjusted to reflect other variables.

Originally Posted by Reich

If it's true that the huge rise in all these allergies in recent years is a result of children's immune systems over-reacting to harmless substances in their environment (because of the lack of real pathogens there - a product of the completely sterile homes they live in, thanks to their neurotic and obsessive mothers), then it follows that the presence of tobacco smoke may give these under-used immune systems something to do and thus spare these children allergies to the necessities of life like air, water and food.

Originally Posted by Reich

On the other hand, parents who smoke in front of their children are probably just dissolute, slatternly, uneducated, fat, lazy, dim-witted yob slobs who live in filthy hovels, so their kids' immune systems get a thorough workout everyday on proper life-threatening pathogens, and are thus too tired to even think about throwing a wobbly if the kid eats a peanut or breathes in a mould spore.

3. Smoking lowers risk of obesity

Smoking — and, in particular, the nicotine in tobacco smoke — is an appetite suppressant. This has been known for centuries, dating back to indigenous cultures in America in the pre-Columbus era. Tobacco companies caught on by the 1920s and began targeting women with the lure that smoking would make them thinner.

A study published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Physiology & Behavior, in fact, is one of many stating that the inevitable weight gain upon quitting smoking is a major barrier in getting people to stop, second only to addiction.

The relationship between smoking and weight control is complex: Nicotine itself acts as both a stimulant and appetite suppressant; and the act of smoking triggers behavior modification that prompts smokers to snack less. Smoking also might make food less tasty for some smokers, further curbing appetite. As an appetite suppressant, nicotine appears to act on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, at least in mice, as revealed in a study by Yale researchers published in the June 10, 2011, issue of the journal Science.

No respectable doctor would recommend smoking for weight control, given the toxic baggage accompanying cigarettes. This recent Yale study, however, does offer an inkling of hope for a safe diet drug to help obese people control their appetites.

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...more intelligent American children grow up to smoke more cigarettes more frequently than their less intelligent counterparts.

The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence and the latent factor for tobacco consumption. The bivariate association is curvilinear, not linear. Nevertheless, “normal” (90 < IQ < 110), “bright” (110 < IQ < 125), and “very bright” (IQ > 125) Americans are more likely to smoke cigarettes than their “very dull” (IQ < 75) or “dull” (75 < IQ < 90) counterparts. The overall association between childhood intelligence and the consumption of tobacco is positive. The more intelligent they are in junior high and high school, the more tobacco they consume as young adults seven years later.

Originally Posted by Reich

On the other hand, parents who smoke in front of their children are probably just dissolute, slatternly, uneducated, fat, lazy, dim-witted yob slobs who live in filthy hovels, so their kids' immune systems get a thorough workout everyday on proper life-threatening pathogens, and are thus too tired to even think about throwing a wobbly if the kid eats a peanut or breathes in a mould spore.

I'm not buying it. I've smoked the crap outta myself over the years and still my immune system made me cough this up, just the other day. You shoulda seen it, dark red and some real thick clotted tackies. It was beast. Just one bowl of half a dozen, shoulda used just one and filled it but the nurse kept changing them.

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But as for smoking, do it dude. It's gunna be cool again soon, just gotta ride out this current wave of bullshit nazi propaganda and then we'll be back to the James Dean level of smoking cool. Plus, it's just a good thing to do.

That blood coughing was no poultry matter. Ba dum ticsh.

Nah man, that's all pulled up from my throat. I'm proud like a baby daddy.