Heat from tobacco may also damage lungs

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HEAT MAY ALSO DAMAGE THE LUNGS Posted By: Namaskar <Send E-Mail>Monday, 27 February 2006, 10:49 a.m. In Response HAVE YOU "GIVEN UP SMOKING" YET ??? (Questionnairy)

 

Within the past year I read an article (probably on RMN) noting that at least one study showed that the heat of inhaled cigarette smoke actually caused singeing of the tissues of the lungs. The study suggested that such damage might be even greater cause for lung cancer than the chemicals involved. (I shuddered to recall loved ones who smoked on the ski lift in 20*F.) Years ago I learned that there are something like seventeen chemicals in American cigarettes. When those burn they are extremely toxic, especially to non smokers (inhalers of "second hand smoke") who have no "immunity". Between the poison of nicotine (one ingested cigarette can kill a dog, as the saying goes) and the burning chemicals AND the heat of the smoke, and now chemtrails, a smoker's lungs just don't stand a chance.. Most upsetting is to see young children trapped in a car or home with smoking parents...chances are high that the children will grow up to smoke and may even become drug addicted. One substance abuse leads to another: ever notice how many auto mechanics smoke? WHAT ARE SMOKERS THINKING? Or are they? GWM, congrats on your resolve to quit....here's supporting you all the way. Hope you don't get chained outside with the dawgs. :<)) Blessings, all~~ Namaskar ******************************************************* : The Last Gasp for Global Tobacco? : By Laina Farhat-Holzman : The Watsonville Pajaronian : February 24, 2006 : About 30 seconds after Columbus arrived in the Americas, : tobacco appeared in all parts of the known world. Or so it : seems. : This nicotine-laden weed was much prized by the Indians of : Central and North America. High-ranking men found that : smoking this week gave an agreeable high to the user's a : good thing to use for political bonding and for cementing : peace treaties. : It did not take long for Spanish conquistadors to discover the : delights of a nicotine high and bring this substance back : to Spain. The British colonists in North America also found : tobacco wonderful, and brought it back to England. : Sour King James I (the Puritan) found the smell nasty and : wanted tobacco banned. He was outvoted by that first : generation of nicotine-hooked men who smoked it anyway. : Within short order, tobacco was naturalized in much of the : world. It was grown in Turkey, then the seat of the Ottoman : Empire, and the very special kind of tobacco that the Turks : developed became standard throughout their empire (water : pipes for tobacco joined the new drink, coffee, and became : the root of "cigarettes and coffee" later in the : west. : Tobacco was then grown wherever it was warm enough in Persia, : China, and even southern Russia. : Governments soon found that this was a very good product to : tax (because it had "become a necessity to the : hooked"). And, of course, in the southern states of : the (later) United States, tobacco was not only a major : crop, but an essential source of revenue both to planters : and to the governments that taxed them. : World Wars I and II gave an even more enormous boost to users : with tobacco given out free to young soldiers on all sides : of the conflicts. And another group was added to the : smokers who had never done so before women. : The emancipation of women (the last slaves to be so : emancipated) in the early 20th century provided : encouragement for women to assert their independence by : smoking "just like men" Thus, women seized the : opportunity to be as stupid as their smoking male : counterparts were. Freedom. : Native American smoking had been for centuries only : ceremonial, but the rest of the world used this substance : as an increasingly addictive drug. Such use, of course, had : consequences that were met by avid denial. People knew that : too much smoking gave the user a cough, but they denied : that this cough was the forerunner of lung cancer and heart : disease. : Despite medical warnings, too many of us paid the price. My : father died at 52 from cancer, and despite his condition on : his deathbed, the longing for a cigarette was still : painful. This is powerful stuff! : Tobacco growers refused to give up their lucrative crop, and : governments were not eager to give up the tax bonanzas they : got from the "unfortunate nicotine-hooked : citizens". But finally, the tide began to turn. : California, as always, led the new campaign to remove : cigarettes and cigars from the public arena's cinemas, : restaurants, concert halls, and even commercial aircraft. : For the first time, tobacco-phobes like me were able to fly : without inhaling side-stream and unhealthy smoke. : Where California leads, the rest of America follows. Such : habitually smoky places as New York, Chicago, and even in : the southern homeland of tobacco, such as Kentucky, smoking : is being barred from public places including workplaces. : The French, who are obsessive smokers, have finally come to : realize the cost to them in health, not to mention cleanup : of their butt-littered streets and tobacco-smoke stained : interiors. : In January, Spain, which is only exceeded in smoking by : Greece, are starting to ban smoking from larger restaurants : and public places. : I remember with anguish attending a symphony concert in Spain : in which it was difficult to see the stage (and the fire : exits) through all the smoke. : China and Japan are now addressing what has become a major : health hazard for them. They are reluctant to give up the : tax money, but the savings on medical costs will make up : for it eventually. This is a global trend, and our : granddaughter, born this January, may grow up to see a : smoke-free world. Her generation will be amazed that we : could have been hooked by something so toxic and stupid for : so long. : Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman is a writer, lecturer, and author of : Strange Birds from Zoroaster's Nest and God's Law or Man's : Law. You may contact her at: Lfarhat102 or : www.globalthink.net .