Screaming in the Wind
I was having dinner on an outside patio at a restaurant
yesterday as I was going over the new book with my editor, and as smokers are
prone to do, I lighted a cigarette. I
wasn’t the only one on the patio smoking, but immediately the table next to us
got up and moved seats, giving the harsh looks that non-smokers love to give
those who are still smoking. I noticed,
as they settled at a table across the way, a long discussion with the server
and a couple pointed fingers in my direction.
The patio on which we were seated had a nice breeze coming
through and was filled with shrubs, trees, and birds looking for scraps. It was also only about a hundred feet away
from the road with much idling traffic stopped by a red light as people were
trying to get home as weekend was beginning.
Those people, though, weren’t concerned about the fumes from cars
filling their lungs and nostrils, no, they were only worried about a little
pipe tobacco stuffed into a paper tube.
I don’t buy or smoke store bought cigarettes filled with
chemicals and carpet glue that are now called “fire safe”. I buy loose tobacco and roll my own, but
even if I did buy prepackaged cigarettes, I feel sure that my little bit of
smoke is not as harmful as fumes coming from hundreds of cars idling at a red
light. I am also sure a whiff of my
smoke is not as harmful as allowing children to drink artificially flavored
sodas and all the preservatives that go into restaurant food. The only difference is how the media has
declared smoking to be the most harmful thing, while ignoring that the caramel
coloring and other additives in a soda are cancer causing.
A recent article has declared that over 500,000 people a
year die from psychiatric drugs, and in a day when one in five children are on
such drugs, whyare we still worried that a little smoke from a cigarette will send
them to their deathbeds? Maybe it’s
because the media and the news channels aren’t pushing the message day after
day, and there are no PSAs declaring how dangerous those drugs are, and the
reason there are not is because the pharmaceutical companies run the
world. Just watch your evening news,
every commercial is about a new drug or at least that was the case when I last
watched TV.
As much as the world declares that smoking is harmful, many,
many studies show that it is not as harmful as the media wants you to
believe. Did you know that smokers
rarely get Parkinson’s disease and they are less likely to get Alzheimer’s? Did you know that irritable bowl, ulcerative
colon, and even high blood pressure are less in those who smoke?
In a world that doesn’t tell you the things in the vaccines,
like mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, animal cells, and aborted fetus cells,
yet insists you put them in your blood stream; in a world that puts more
chemicals than food in the things you put on your dinner table, and pays
millions to advertise how healthy they are; in a world where arsenic is found
in our chicken meat and water, but is declared healthy; in a world where
pharmaceuticals and doctors kill more than guns and car wrecks per year - one
must sit back and question.
Did you know those who smoke have less breast cancer? And have you noticed that as American’s quit
smoking in the last decades the incidents of lung cancer have increased? Did you know that in the countries with the
highest numbers of smokers, like Greece and Japan, they have lowest rates of
lung cancer? I’m sure you haven’t
noticed because your news channels haven’t told you. Pancreatic cancer has increased with sales and advertising of
diet sodas, and colon cancer has increased with most eating at fast food
restaurants because they are too busy to cook natural foods at home.
And being as cancer is the biggest money maker in this
country, when the ACS pulls in billions, yes billions of dollars a year, and
when doctors are being tried all over the country for treating people for
cancer when there was no cancer, we have to sit back and question. Can you imagine a cure for cancer? Not in this world, because there are billions
of dollars and this world is money hungry, not cure hungry.
Did you know asthma has increased since smoking has
decreased? Did you know they used to
tell asthmatics to smoke? Do you know
many food flavorings can increase attacks?
I grow tired of writing these types articles as everyone
wants links so they can decry that the info provided isn’t “acceptable”
information because it’s not coming from the forces that are hurting us and
making the decisions for profit, and not health. Truth is truth, though, and truth is hard found down here, and
you’re not a popular person for declaring such hidden truths. I suppose there are popular truths, which
aren’t actually truths, and then there are the unpopular ones, which no one
discusses for fear of offending someone, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t
rooted in reality.
A recent study has declared that our attention spans, as
humans, are now less than a goldfish.
With the introduction of our “smart” phones, our attention levels are
less than a fish in a small bowl. Now
the studies all over the world telling how these phones cause brain cancer are
ignored, mainly because our news media aren’t pounding them into our heads
hourly, between the drug commercials, and with the PSAs of people suffering
brain cancer.
No, what we get pounded into our heads is that smoking
kills, even though humans have been smoking and living next to fire since their
beginning. These food additives,
gasoline powered motors, vaccines, and phones are new to us, but smoking we
have done forever. It simply doesn’t
matter if I provide links, or the testimonies, I know I will change no one’s
belief, so I will just leave a statement from one of my favorite fictional
characters, Roland Deschain, from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series …
“Smoking keeps the bugs away.”
3 comments:
Please don't take offense, but as a former smoker I can say that I too would have moved, simply because of the bad smell that smoking puts into the air. The people that moved away didn't know what you were smoking, only what it smelled like. The vehicle exhaust and food you mention wouldn't necessarily bother me...assuming it doesn't stink. Diesel exhaust stinks. I guess I'm just saying that I don't find it difficult to understand why the fellow diners moved. Peace out. Lol
Purfume stinks too...and would make me move just as quickly. :)
Mercury and aluminum do not stink, but we put them in our veins. Dog and cat and baby crap stinks, but we don't always move away. Gas fumes are lethal, but don't always smell bad. Media has a deep grasp on people and as I said, Smoking keeps the bugs away.
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