Smoking is good for you

'Smokers are at least doing their bit to slow down the runaway obesity epidemic that is sweeping through the western world. "In many studies, you often find smokers are slimmer'.

'Scientists have also found evidence that smoking might, in some circumstances, help prevent the onset of various dementias'.

And more things you should make a choice about.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...013605,00.html

[blue3golf]

Finally, someone not telling me to quit.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by blue3golf

Finally, someone not telling me to quit.

Yeah.

[Bertgang]

Being a smoker, I'm pleased hearing that.

Not totally new, anyway, and easy to use for opposite meaning.

In my country is available since years a sort of humoristic advertising telling about: smoking helps you in becoming slimmer.

The smoker in this picture is a skeleton.

[GreyOctober]

Problem is, once you quit, you gain weight even if youre not stuffing anything down the pipe. Now wheres me pipe?, yarrrrrrrrrr

[Dowly]

Oh ffs! Just when I decided to quit!

[LoBlo]

Originally Posted by waste gate

'Smokers are at least doing their bit to slow down the runaway obesity epidemic that is sweeping through the western world. "In many studies, you often find smokers are slimmer'.

'Scientists have also found evidence that smoking might, in some circumstances, help prevent the onset of various dementias'.

And more things you should make a choice about.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...013605,00.html

If someone told you that Arsenic decreased risk of skin cancer, would you go out and start eating alot of Arsenic? The overall damage of these chemical exposures should be compared to their benefit. The damage of longstanding cigarette exposure is still very high.

Originally Posted by LoBlo

If someone told you that Arsenic decreased risk of skin cancer, would you go out and start eating alot of Arsenic? The overall damage of these chemical exposures should be compared to their benefit. The damage of longstanding cigarette exposure is still very high.

That is a bit over the top as analogies go. Arsenic has been a known poison for centuries. How about driving an automobile. In the US, that activity kills more than 41,000 people every year. Yet, no one questions it unless the whole global warming issue is raised. Even then how many are willing to give up their freedom to make the choice, drive or not drive?