Smokers! There has been lots written…lots said….and lots bitched about smokers….but here we are with a new device to help out the discussion…
From Health Commerce News site…..
Electronic cigarettes have recently grabbed the attention of almost every tobacco user in North America. Everywhere you look there’s an internet blog, an ad, or a doctor calling the “e-cigarette” the new healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes. But can this clever looking contraption live up to all the hype? Or have we embraced the latest Hollywood trend without real merit or scientific evidence that electronic cigarettes truly are the #1 smoking alternative?
Here are just a few of the outstanding benefits that Prado™ Electronic Cigarettes has been claiming on their website:
- No tar, tobacco, carbon monoxide, or ash.
- Get the same amount of nicotine as a regular cigarette.
- Each cartridge costs less than $2 and is equivalent to an entire pack of cigarettes.
- You can save over $1,000 each year.
- You won’t “smell” like a smoker any longer.
- Different flavors are available.
- Smoke in many locations that traditionally ban smoking.
- No more second-hand smoke.
You mean that is a product that will let a smoker actually smoke in public? Appears to be……so a smoker can smoke in public and save money while doing so? And this is suppose to help them stop smoking? Sounds more like an incentive, to me…..
And there is more on the smoking front….
Federal regulators unveiled proposals Wednesday that would place graphic depictions of death and disease on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.The proposed new labels would occupy the top half of a cigarette pack and 20 percent of advertisements with such admonitions as “Tobacco Smoke Can Harm Your Children,” “Cigarettes cause cancer” and “Smoking Can Kill You.”
The words are accompanied by graphic images, including one featuring a corpse with his chest stitched up. Other images show headstones, a lip cracked by a cancerous ulcer, and a woman exhaling smoke into the face of an infant.
Interesting post… Has it occurred to you that, whilst it takes seconds for a CIA/MI5 failure in intelligence (or failure to pass on intelligence) can kill you in seconds, an argument with your wife/husband before driving to work can kill you in less than an hour, giving up smoking can indirectly kill you in a number of ways from hours to weeks and a visit to the wrong UK hospital at times can kill you in only months, the thing they bang on about loudest (in fact, at all), is the possibility that smoking MIGHT kill you in 50 years or so and it’s YOUR goddamned choice in the first place?
Strange…
Well said…..the one constant thing in life is that we will die…so why not enjoy the things you want?
The don’t like to you ENJOYING yourself – threatens their sense of power and superiority.
So since they are miserable individuals, they want me to be miserable….sounds like their plan….
That’s it – the religious, the poor, the rich, the angry, the passive – ALL groups want to feel that THEIRS is the right way and anyone who’s clearly happier and more contented should be targeted to prevent them feeling that their rigid ideals disadvantage them…
The more a person is a selfish asshole (and they do seem to be on the increase), the more he or she wants everyone else to conform to his or her ideology… goddamned human nature again!
Thank you….that is what we have been talking about…seems few people can look past their personal filter and see the large issues involved….
Exactly.