The great smoking experiment?

[PaulConventionWV]

I'm pretty sure, if someone developed some benign odor and it smelled like tobacco smoke, those same people would still be "sensitive" to it.

That's because our brains are trained to recognize things as noxious when they carry the signs of something that is noxious, even if they are not. It is a protective mechanism that the brain uses, and it doesn't mean that cigarette smoke is not harmful.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

The difference is pot is pot, it's just that. A plant. Cigarettes contain tons of dangerous chemicals added to the tobacco.

 

[tod evans]

The difference is pot is pot, it's just that. A plant. Cigarettes contain tons of dangerous chemicals added to the tobacco.

Be interesting to see studies done with plain ol' tobacco instead of commercially processed stuff...

 

[Dr.3D]

That's because our brains are trained to recognize things as noxious when they carry the signs of something that is noxious, even if they are not. It is a protective mechanism that the brain uses, and it doesn't mean that cigarette smoke is not harmful.

Speak for yourself. My brain tells me tobacco smoke smells good and I don't even smoke. I just associate that smell with my dad, who used to smoke around me when I was a kid.

 

[acptulsa]

If you impinge someone's liberties in the name of legislating politeness, you are the most rude of all. How have we forgotten this simple fact?

 

[daviddee]

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[Suzu]

Here's a conundrum: I'm a smoker, and I can't stand the smell of *someone else* smoking.

And for liberty2897: Try rolling your own. I buy finely-cut natural pipe tobacco for $15/lb. and cartons of two dozen packs of Bugler papers for $20 each. One carton of papers will roll roughly 4 lbs. of tobacco. The cost per "pack" (20 cigarettes) comes to about 70 cents, and each cigarette lasts 3x as long as a pre-rolled one because it doesn't keep burning when you set it down. So you end up smoking about two-thirds fewer cigarettes. I roll them in a slightly conical shape, with almost no tobacco in the butt end and thicker at the end you burn. That in itself saves about 25% of the tobacco. This all adds up to a far lower cost to smoke than the average, and a much better quality of smoke also.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Yes, because 20 million metric tons of pollution being spewed 24 x 7 is equivalent to a cigarette.

Additionally, you clearly bought a house on land that was zoned industrial and then got upset that industry came in.

Why not just say, simply, that you despise cigarettes and you will come up with a million reasons to say that you would like to outlaw them, the people that smoke them, etc. Which is completely fine, but I think you are on the wrong forum.

Is anybody allowed to despise cigarettes without wanting to outlaw them? What is wrong with so many people on these forums that they criticize anyone who criticizes anything and say they're anti-liberty? Just because I don't like second-hand smoke and advise others not to smoke, that doesn't mean I want to outlaw cigarettes.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I find this post comical on many levels.

What's comical about it? I didn't find it funny at all.

 

[tod evans]

The tobacco industry is another one it would be good to get the government out of.

Could be without government regulations some of the unnatural chemicals and some of the social stigma wouldn't exist...

 

[Jamesiv1]

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[tod evans]

You sir, are no lover of liberty.

:o

 

[Carson]

I remember being a non smoker and still picking smoker section seating on a plane because being with the smokers was where the fun was at...

that and that end was the end that usually hits last.

Woo Hoo!

 

[DamianTV]

I can remember a time when smokers were not as ostracised as they are today.

I find that I can not remember a time when the Medical Industry was not trying to turn a buck by keeping sick people sick.