Can you say "splinters"?!!

Kat

Besides which; emotions, rage and anger,and vengeance along with swift action, get us into places like Iraq.

Think, think, think.

Kat

It is against democrats and well....thing is; dems and repubs NEED to GO!! We need more options. Black and white no longer stand. There are many colors to this rainbow...and we are a rainbow. More options.

Kat

I was never phased by the op's post. I have actually been keeping up with the .gov site. When I read a persons biased and obvious dislike of someone, I will of course go and find it. Or at least try. I take no ones word as truth. Research research.

Kat

I have heard thunder lately that is waaaay eerie. I have never heard thunder like we have been hearing lately. It is so loud with a deep groaning and it lingers and sounds as if it rolls across the sky all the while staying right on top of you. My mom and sis and me were caught in a tornadic even awhile back, and the thunder alone was almost more scarey than the tornado around us. We have heard that same thunder again. It is very different.

Kat

I dont understand what the problem is? Many Americans see ourselves as an arrogant country. We are from what I see. Nations are made up of people, if the people are arrogant...then so shall be the nation.

Kat

Thomas; no...I do not smoke around them anymore. Thay are grown, but still do not. I wish I had treated my kids as well as I do my grandkids. But I was dumb about these things then. And "yes" I do actually. When I know my babies are coming to see me...I shower and put on clean clothes that have left in the dryer til time to dress for them. I will NOT SMoKE BEFORE THEY COME DOWN. They never come into the house because I don't want them to, and I always wash my face again and my arms as well as hands. When they get here...I am clean as I can possibly be for them. I brush my teeth over and over (I know it doesn't help", but I try. My kids would back my up on this is they were here. My mom gets mad at me cause I gripe at her not to smoke in the house before they come down, because I don't want it on me. We always go somewhere else to visit.
So yes...I do practice what I preach. Now, if I could just quit for good.

Kat

This isnt about the right to kill ourselves, its about whether we have a right to kill those around us.

Instead of eliminating nicotine, “Cigarette Companies Increasing Nicotine Levels, Health Officials Say” (Associated Press, 29 August 2006) (“Tobacco companies have increased the nicotine levels in cigarettes by 10 percent over the past 6 years . . . Nicotine levels in Kool cigarettes -- popular with African-American smokers—rose 20 percent. In 1998, 84 percent of cigarette brands fell into the highest range for nicotine delivery; in 2004, that figure had risen to 93 percent. So-called "light" cigarettes delivered as much nicotine as other cigarettes.”

Kat

Thing is rose...we all know that a cup or two of coffee is actually good for us, but no one will tell you that a couple of smokes is.

Kat

If a person could smoke safely and not harm others around the world with it...I woule be okay with it myself. But...thing is; it polutes the very air outside and inside.
The smoke from a persons mouth is more polutant than car exhaust.

Secondhand smoke is a toxic cocktail consisting of poisons and carcinogens. There are over 4000 chemical compounds in secondhand smoke; 200 of which are known to be poisonous, and upwards of 60 have been identified as carcinogens. This isn't even enough to make people stop. Knowing that it is hurting our loved ones and friends doesn't stop us.
Knowing that there are 599 chemicals ADDED to tobacco doesn't stop us. Knowing that cigarette smoke has over 4000 chemical compounds of which 60 are known cancer causing agents, doesn't stop us.
If they just smoked tobacco and not all the chemicals that are added, I wonder if they would be less dangerous? Not. They have recorded journals as far back as 1886 that talks about smokers death due to cigarettes, and the effects.

When a cigarette is smoked, about half of the smoke is inhaled and exhaled (mainstream smoke) by the smoker and the other half floats around in the air (sidestream smoke). The combination of mainstream and sidestream smoke makes up environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Also known as secondhand smoke, ETS plays a part in more health problems than you might realize. The following facts point out why it is so important to have smoking bans in place. No one should be forced to breathe in air tainted with cigarette smoke.

Secondhand Smoke and Cancer
The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has classified secondhand smoke as a Group A carcinogen.

Cancers linked to passive smoking include:
•Lung cancer - 3000 nonsmokers die every year from lung cancer caused by ETS
•Nasal sinus cavity cancer
•Cervical Cancer
•Bladder cancer
Some chemical compounds found in smoke only become carcinogenic after they've come into contact with certain enzymes found in many of the tissues of the human body.
The Risks of Secondhand Smoke to a Child
•Low birthweight for gestational age
•Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)- children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy have an increased risk of SIDS.
•The EPA estimates that passive smoking is responsible for between 150,000 and 300,000 of these infections in children under 18 months annually
•Asthma - According to the EPA, between 200,000 and 1,000,000 kids with asthma have their condition worsened by secondhand smoke every year. Also, passive smoking may also be responsible for thousands of new cases of asthma every year
•Chronic respiratory symptoms such as cough and wheezing may be attributed to secondhand smoke.
•Children who breathe in secondhand smoke are more likely to suffer from dental cavities, eye and nose irritation, and irritability
•Middle ear infections - exposure to ETS causes buildup of fluid in the middle ear, resulting in 700,000 to 1.6 million physician office visits yearly
Secondhand Smoke and Children
Secondhand Smoke at Home Threatens Children
How Secondhand Smoke Can Affect the Heart
•Heart disease mortality - an estimated 35,000 to 62,000 deaths are caused from heart disease in people who are not current smokers, but who are exposed to ETS
•Acute and chronic coronary heart disease
•Passive smoking has been linked to the narrowing of the carotid arteries, which carry blood to the brain
•Exposure to secondhand smoke hastens hardening of the arteries, a condition known as artherosclerosis
•Continual exposure to ETS has been shown to nearly double the chance of heart attack
Secondhand Smoke - Worse Than We Thought

Secondhand smoke is serious business, and should be a concern for anyone who breathes it in. Non-smokers inhaling secondhand smoke share some of the health risks smokers face. BUT.... smokers do face the worst of it - the risks of smoking are compounded by BREATHING CIGARETTE SMOKE IN FOR A SECOND TIME.

Don't underestimate the dangers of enviromental tobacco smoke. While secondhand smoke may not kill as many people as smoking does, it is toxic and claims thousands of lives every year around the world.

So no....the smoker isnt the only one with rights. I have alologized to my kids for putting them through this. I had no clue as to what I was doing to them....and the world. The very air I want all my worldy friends to have....CLEAN.

Kat

"The United States Pure Food Laws allow only 1.43 parts of arsenic per million in food, but in 1937 the arsenic content of tobacco was fifty times that amount
TTS chemicals (constituting an "ultrahazardous" combination) have long been researched, e.g., E. Bogen, "Composition of Cigarettes and Cigarette Smoke," 93 J Am Med Ass'n (#9) 1110-1114 (12 Oct 1929).
They have an effect. Prof. W. E. Dixon (Cambridge University), The Tobacco Habit (1927) identified more than fifty diseases or symptoms in which tobacco was already then known to be a factor. Our website on "cancer data 1925" gives an overview of what was already known then. Our website reproducing the Michigan House of Representatives Committee Report on the Tobacco Hazard—1889 has examples of what was known over 110 years ago.

In a 26 page 15 November 1961 admission by Dr. Helmut Wakeham of the Philip Morris Company about the carcinogens in tobacco smoke, there is a remarkable diagram on page 4 (Item 202494715) showing a big cigarette, with two "balloons," one coming out of each end of the cigarette. The balloons contain graphs showing that the percentage of dangerous compounds that come off the burning end of a cigarette ((second hand smoke)) is vastly higher (86%) than the percentage contained in the mainstream smoke (11.2%).

And we think that second hand smoke bothers no one?

Kat

The danger we smokers do to others is bad enough...but even outside we infect those who do not. It is the business of everyone. I didn't use to understand this. I do now. What I do in my HOME OR OUTSIDE as far as smoking goes...does affect others. It poisons the air and the lungs of everyone.
How many people here will smoke bug spray? Wr do as long as we smoke. The bugs are smarter than we are. They will run away from nicotine.

Kat

The principal demand for it [nicotine] is as a horticultural insecticide.
Pure nicotine, C10H14N2, is a highly poisonous colourless liquid, with an unpleasant odour; it boils at 246° - 247° C. and is soluble in most solvents, including water. . . . Nicotine was synthesized in 1904 by A. Pictet, P. Crepieux and Ritoschy."—"Nicotine," Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol 16, p 431 (1963).

"It is also of relevance that the absorption of Nicotine through the lungs is extremely rapid and efficient and reaches the brain more rapidly than after intravenous injection. The arm-to-brain circulation time averages 13.5 seconds, whilst the lung-to-brain time is about 7.5 seconds
Worse, "some 90% of the nicotine delivered to the lungs goes directly to the brain, and it gets there in only 7 seconds," "much faster than a heroin rush from a peripheral vein.

Nicotine is one of the most powerful of the 'nerve poisons' known. Its virulence is compared to that of prussic acid. . . . .
It seems to destroy life not by attacking a few but all of the functions essential to it. . . . A significant indication of this is that there is no substance which can counteract its effects. . . .

The use of tobacco in even the smallest amount impairs the functional action of the liver on the blood passing through it, and that the abnormal state of the blood thus caused will manifest itself by disturbance in the brain.

"Thus the nerves are under the constant influence of the drug and much injury to the system results."—C. W. Lyman, 48 New York Medical Journal 262-265 (8 Sep 1888).


Kat

Oh wait;

"Moreover, there is no question that arsenic . . . is definitely an active carcinogen on human tissue. . . . the arsenic content of American cigarettes has increased from two to six times in a period of 25 years. One popular brand contains from 41 to 52.5 micrograms of arsenic, of which one third remains in the butt, one third is in the ash, and one third goes into the smoke. About five micrograms of arsenic trioxide is inhaled from each cigarette. Three parts of arsenic trioxide per million is the maximum amount permitted in food--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unfortunately, "most laymen . . . lack the scientific background to recognize the damage that can be done by what appears [to them] to be miniscule amounts of irritants," --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actually . . . the safety factor among the leading brands varies so little that offering it as the basis for smoking any cigarette is like offering a man the choice of committing suicide by jumping either from a 50- or 51-story building.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tobaco poisons are so powerful in miniscule quantities that even smoking merely one cigarette can be enough to start the fatal addictive process.

A test was done that detects smog emmissions on a man that was smoking...it was higher than an automobile exhaust. This was in 2006. The breath of a smoker was nastier and more poisonous than exhaust from a car!!

Kat

A piece from RJ REYNOLDS:

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.
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It's chilling to think about not only how smokers poison themselves, but what others are exposed to by breathing in the secondhand smoke. The next time you're missing your old buddy, the cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see them for what they are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.

Cigarettes offer people only a multitude of smoking-related diseases and ultimately death.

We are not only killing outselves; we are affecting those around us and those we love. Including our pets.

Kat

Did you know that the second hand smoke is even more lethal after a few hours? The gasses or chemicals come together and grow higher in numbers? It increases four times after 2hrs, 4hrs, then and after 6 hours becomes less."aging sidestream smoke is after the cig is put out." And "aging sidestream cigarette smoke for at least 30 minutes increases its toxicity fourfold for 21 day exposures and doubles the toxicity for 90 day exposures, relative to fresh sidestream (a lit cig) smoke. . . : These results help explain the relatively large biological effects of secondhand smoke compared to equivalent mass doses of mainstream smoke,"

Did you know that nicotine is the most lethal poison in the world? One drop will kill a cat, a snake and can kill a human in pure form?

Tobacco smoke is 60 times more toxic than traffic fumes.

Did you know; That a cigarette has only 40% tobacco and 60% "other" ingredients? The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. This was submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret.

Tobacco companies reporting this information were:

American Tobacco Company
Brown and Williamson
Liggett Group, Inc.
Philip Morris Inc.

I have been reading for days the tobacco industries files and research on cigs on the enviroment and humans. As well as animals.
These companies have long known what they were doing to us. They have been given approval to mass murder. Why??

Kat

Sometimes it shows I am online for days. That just means I didn't log out. I am guilty of that. Times when I put the page on bottom and leave it there.

Kat

wtf

I like dancing....

Kat