Smoking
Did you know that cigarettes are the number one cause of lung cancer? So our government says...
Yet I cannot help but notice that radon is listed as the second largest cause of lung cancer. What does that mean?
It means we didn't know about radon till about twenty years ago. And all the lung cancer deaths caused by radon, had been attributed to cigarettes. And we had to modify the figures when we found out about radon.
But cigarettes still must kill a lot of us, for after we discovered Radon, and after subtracting for radon caused lung cancer, cigarettes were still number one. Or is that the case?
Well...you learn funny things in different jobs, and I've worked over sixty different jobs in my life, even though I'm only 36. One is Pest Control, where you get to learn how to use all kinds of dangerous poisons. And how such poisons can contaminate you.
There are three means of getting poison into you. Inhalation - breathing in. Ingestion - through your mouth and swallowed. And Absorption - through your skin.
Do you smell bleach when you use it? Do you smell gasoline when you fill your car's tank? You have then inhaled the poison. You smell by the detection of molecules of substances entering your nose. You couldn't smell the stuff unless you were being poisoned - and while perhaps just a little, I imagine you fill your car and clean your floors regularly. These things are all cancer causing poisons.
One of the poisons we must be licensed to use is Sodium Fluoride. It is very, very poisonous. You must exercise care in using it. You ingest this each morning and each evening, it's in your toothpaste right now as you read this. Really. And it's the sole "active" ingredient. If you think it doesn't matter because you don't swallow it, then why not gargle with some Raid tomorrow?
Do you think that because Raid would make you gag and Sodium Fluoride does not, that it must then be safe? Yet cigarettes don't make one gag, do they?
Do you live in a big city? The fumes you inhale from cars and industrial plants are said to be the equivalent of smoking a pack a day.
Do you have pest control? Then such chemicals are available to be inhaled and absorbed.
Do you use cleaning chemicals, but not always gloves? That's absorption.
In short, there are many, many poisons that all actually poison you, and can cause cancer.
Which one is the undiscovered radon? And is there an X factor unknown poison, a Xadon?
What will we find caused half of all lung cancer deaths next?
I would wonder, if the government knew that people didn't like pollution, but knew that they liked all these wealthy corporations donating to their campaigns, might they not wish to blame something besides all the big corporations for the lung cancer out there?
And what better thing to blame then that which gives pleasure to the masses of little people? A thing that allows them to piously tax us all the more for our own good?
After all, how dangerous can they think it is, when they outlaw pot, but leave cigarettes legal? And if they are so worried about us smoking, why is it legal for the tobacco companies to artificially enhance the addictive properties of cigarettes by 200%? And whyever would they subsidize those who grow this cruelly child killing substance?
It is easy to understand, when you realize that the government likes that for the same reason tobacco companies do. The addictive quality means .25 cents per pack profit for the companies. And a $2 tax for the government with each pack!
To keep us panicked over a fake danger, that allows them much revenue, while letting them protect their environmental rapist corporate friends from us knowing how much cancer their pollutants and products cause routinely.
Pretty clever.
Dean West
Yet I cannot help but notice that radon is listed as the second largest cause of lung cancer. What does that mean?
It means we didn't know about radon till about twenty years ago. And all the lung cancer deaths caused by radon, had been attributed to cigarettes. And we had to modify the figures when we found out about radon.
But cigarettes still must kill a lot of us, for after we discovered Radon, and after subtracting for radon caused lung cancer, cigarettes were still number one. Or is that the case?
Well...you learn funny things in different jobs, and I've worked over sixty different jobs in my life, even though I'm only 36. One is Pest Control, where you get to learn how to use all kinds of dangerous poisons. And how such poisons can contaminate you.
There are three means of getting poison into you. Inhalation - breathing in. Ingestion - through your mouth and swallowed. And Absorption - through your skin.
Do you smell bleach when you use it? Do you smell gasoline when you fill your car's tank? You have then inhaled the poison. You smell by the detection of molecules of substances entering your nose. You couldn't smell the stuff unless you were being poisoned - and while perhaps just a little, I imagine you fill your car and clean your floors regularly. These things are all cancer causing poisons.
One of the poisons we must be licensed to use is Sodium Fluoride. It is very, very poisonous. You must exercise care in using it. You ingest this each morning and each evening, it's in your toothpaste right now as you read this. Really. And it's the sole "active" ingredient. If you think it doesn't matter because you don't swallow it, then why not gargle with some Raid tomorrow?
Do you think that because Raid would make you gag and Sodium Fluoride does not, that it must then be safe? Yet cigarettes don't make one gag, do they?
Do you live in a big city? The fumes you inhale from cars and industrial plants are said to be the equivalent of smoking a pack a day.
Do you have pest control? Then such chemicals are available to be inhaled and absorbed.
Do you use cleaning chemicals, but not always gloves? That's absorption.
In short, there are many, many poisons that all actually poison you, and can cause cancer.
Which one is the undiscovered radon? And is there an X factor unknown poison, a Xadon?
What will we find caused half of all lung cancer deaths next?
I would wonder, if the government knew that people didn't like pollution, but knew that they liked all these wealthy corporations donating to their campaigns, might they not wish to blame something besides all the big corporations for the lung cancer out there?
And what better thing to blame then that which gives pleasure to the masses of little people? A thing that allows them to piously tax us all the more for our own good?
After all, how dangerous can they think it is, when they outlaw pot, but leave cigarettes legal? And if they are so worried about us smoking, why is it legal for the tobacco companies to artificially enhance the addictive properties of cigarettes by 200%? And whyever would they subsidize those who grow this cruelly child killing substance?
It is easy to understand, when you realize that the government likes that for the same reason tobacco companies do. The addictive quality means .25 cents per pack profit for the companies. And a $2 tax for the government with each pack!
To keep us panicked over a fake danger, that allows them much revenue, while letting them protect their environmental rapist corporate friends from us knowing how much cancer their pollutants and products cause routinely.
Pretty clever.
Dean West
posted by Dean West @ 2:12 AM
2 Comments:
At March 5, 2005 7:37 AM,
psuche said…
Check out 'In Defense of Smokers':
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lcolby/
It goes in depth into the poor science behind the smoking and second hand smoke link to cancer.
At May 22, 2009 5:26 AM,
alwaysright said…
Smoking is a nasty habit, but, there was one smoker I loved whose smoking didn't bother me. It was so odd because I hate cigarettes. It seemed I was immune to it bothering me when it came to him.
Must have been love...
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