Want to quit smoking? Try the VERY successful Indian cigarette lighter that sings a death chant every time users light up

Want to quit smoking? Try the VERY successful Indian cigarette lighter that sings a death chant every time users light up | Mail Online

What a ghastly and vile concept.
People are fully informed about what smoking can and does do to the human body,period.
How could they not be?

There is video included in this story in case anyone wants to see it.

Although such tricks could not be pulled off outside India – because cigarettes have to be sold in sealed packs in in Britain, the U.S. and other Western counties and vendors do not carry lighters– it does suggest that a verbal message could work better than written warnings or pictures. 

That story reminded me of this.

How Long before we're o.k. with mentally torturing smokers as well as physically torturing them?
It feels like dark times are ahead.

Barron H. Lerner: Was Science Sidelined in Cigarette Debate?

Barron H. Lerner: Was Science Sidelined in Cigarette Debate?

The title sounds so amazing.
But it is anything but amazing.I'm reading another smear,another review of a book condemning something that people choose to do.
And honestly half of smokers don't I believe ever want to quit,they just want the Godawful nagging to stop.
People who want to quit,will quit.No magic pill or potion or patch will give a person willpower enough to stop doing something they enjoy.
I wonder if it will be the same with food,I wonder what sort of world I will wake up to ten or twenty years from now.
Sometimes it feels like I am screaming at the walls and no one is listening.

Proctor makes no attempt to interview Feinstein (now deceased) or others who he criticizes, some of whom have tried to justify their actions elsewhere. But this is not surprising. Although Proctor, a superb historian, readily admits that science is inherently messy, it is the use of scientific data to obfuscate that he identifies as the most venal and successful strategy of the tobacco industry. There are times, he believes, that science is black and white. 

So what of Proctor's challenge to his readers that they think outside the box? If an industry creates a product that is both dangerous and addictive and, ultimately, so unpleasurable that 85% of its customers want to quit, shouldn't society ban it? Maybe the tobacco industry's longtime claim that choosing to smoke is an "exercise in freedom" is a farce. 

I very much doubt I will read this book,even though I have read some doozies.

But right now I am reading an essay in book form called Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal .
It's honestly pretty good and it puts things in a perspective that I'm not used to,I don't think that's always a bad thing.

PepsiCo Unions Seek NLRB Help to Combat Company’s $50 Tax on Fat, Smoking

PepsiCo Unions Seek NLRB Help to Combat Company’s $50 Tax on Fat, Smoking - Bloomberg

Three International Brotherhood of Teamsters locals, representing about 300 drivers, sales agents and warehouse workers in Binghamton, Latham and Syracuse, complained to the labor board in October. PepsiCo is hindering the union’s effort to shop for a health plan without a “sin tax,” said Ozzie Martucci, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 669.

“We’re against that type of tax, frankly,” Martucci said yesterday in a phone interview. “It feels wrong to tax workers if they are overweight or happen to have diabetes or smoke, and we wanted to look elsewhere for different insurance.”

Pepsico workers can avoid the fee if they join programs to stop smoking or lose weight, said Dave DeCecco, a company spokesman. “These programs enable our associates and their families to live a healthier lifestyle,” he said.

The fee is applied to smokers, as well as to workers who have diabetes, hypertension, high blood pressure or asthma, conditions that often lead to being overweight, he said.

It wasn't long ago I read about boycotting Pepsi.
Seems more appropriate now than ever before.
Although I have to wonder if the push to persecute the "unhealthy" came from society or from the very top of the company.

Tobacco ban wouldn't be most effective step

Tobacco ban wouldn't be most effective step

But outlawing a legal activity isn't as much of a deterrent as some might like to believe.

It just turns ordinary citizens into pariahs, "socially unacceptable" and condemned for their habit while others practice their own distasteful ― and potentially dangerous ― habits without the scorn of friends, family and even strangers.

Ever overhear a stranger ask an overweight person why his or her lunch choice is a supersized burger and fries? Probably not ― especially with so many people carrying concealed weapons these days. But criticizing a smoker, and doing so with marked disdain and self-righteousness? It's not the thing to do.

I'm confused by this opinion piece.
I like it but I know someone who is very anti-smoking wrote it.
I am noticing this more and more though,even people for tobacco control are starting to "say" that things have gone too far.

I wonder if they truly believe it .

I know I do.

The List Of What Won't Make You Sick Is Shorter

Soft Drinks May Raise Odds for Respiratory Ills: Study

 Drinking a lot of soft drinks may increase the risk for asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study suggests.

Nearly 17,000 people aged 16 and older in South Australia were asked about their consumption of soft drinks such as Coke, flavored mineral water, lemonade, Powerade and Gatorade.

More than 10 percent of the participants said they drank more than half a liter of soft drinks a day, according to the study, published in the February issue of the journal Respirology. That's a little more than two 8-ounce glasses of soft drinks.

The researchers found that 13.3 percent of the participants with asthma and 15.6 percent of those with COPD consumed more than half a liter of soft drinks a day.

They never stop,they never get tired.
It never bothers them.
So far in the last 8 days sugar should be regulated, but the alternative is no better.Obesity and the news that it's contagoius because of microbes in the digestive tract.
Then comes the news that salt gives you cancer.
I wonder if I'll pick up the paper tomorrow and read that shaving is killing us all .
Oops too late.

Sugar Nannies : The Observation Post

Sugar Nannies : The Observation Post : Naples Blogs : Naples Daily News: Local Naples, Florida News Delivered Throughout the Day.

It wasn't enough to demonize tobacco usage and users, second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke have also become culprits. Although tobacco is still considered a legal substance, it has become regulated by the government and taxed beyond belief. One point that has been made in regards to the war on tobacco is that if we permit invasive intrusions and controls on one substance like tobacco, what will be next? So far “next” has been salt and trans-fats, and with this current administration there have been actions on school lunch menus in some areas with obesity being the big demon to conquer.

I liked this.
As far as I am concerned this person gets it.
Hard to explain what it is but if you have lived long enough you have seen "it" happen.
I hope one day I wake up and find all this has been nothing but a bad dream.

Framing tobacco control efforts within an ethical context -- Fox 14 (suppl 2): ii38 -- Tobacco Control

Framing tobacco control efforts within an ethical context -- Fox 14 (suppl 2): ii38 -- Tobacco Control

The premise of this paper is that people and movements are defined not solely by substance, but by how much the speaker’s values resonate with the public. A truth spoken by a messenger who is not trusted will be disbelieved. If the tobacco control community is disbelieved, it may not be the result of being wrong, but rather from a failure to frame ourselves in such a way that our goals and our approaches resonate with the public. In this article, I argue that the tobacco control community should more proactively frame its actions and base that frame upon ethical principles.

There are many reasons to better integrate ethics into tobacco control, not least of which is that it is morally appropriate to act ethically as professionals. This is true even if acting ethically may have short term costs. In this paper, however, I do not address the issue of acting ethically for its own reward. Instead I demonstrate how better integrating ethics into our work has a pragmatic dimension that can move our work forward. I argue that by consistently framing ourselves and actions in accord with sound ethical principles, we can seize the high ground from the tobacco industry and provide a common language to communicate with the public and among ourselves. If we accomplish this goal, it will not be due to a large single effort, but to a series of consistent messages that portray the community in a shared vision. 

Oh that's a laugh ethics in the tobacco control industry.

I know it's old but this explains some of their insane worldview.

Horrible read,but to know your enemy you must first understand him.