tobacco truth?

[Cubis_max]

why are people still wanting these companies to "tell the truth"?. whats the point there is more than enough information out there for everyone to know that its is bad for you and unhealthy. like if you get them to admit that they boosted nicotine levels that every smoker will be so shocked that they will stop. we know the risks and continue to do it, stop bothering me

[Andrew]

this.

[Kharmah]

word.

[Nikki Letsom]

Yeah, plus it seems that quite a few of their statistics come from the 90's, wtf is that? But even besides that, like you said, it's not like smokers think that cigarettes are healthy for them or something. So what are you trying to prove? : /

[SirReal Killer]

Yeah I feel it...

What's funny to me is that the pesticides that they spray their plants with seem to be what's harming everyone to begin with.

My great grandfather smoked from age 7 till he died at 77 and died from natural causes, never got cancer. He also smoked the harsh non filter stuff. but it was natural tobacco. he mos def could have got emphysema and was lucky not to.

[Chris James]

In the midsts of all we now know about smoking, only a moron would continue to do so.

[Leah Rachelle❤]

Well then half the world must be morons.

[Chris James]

Pretty much.

[Leah Rachelle❤]

I don't agree. I think that smoking is something that people dont think about before they start to do. I know I didn't. Ask any smoker. They never sat there and said if I light this up for the first time is it really going to hurt me? NO! I don't think its moronic, I think it might not be really smart, but its not moronic.

[Chris James]

"I think it might not be really smart, but its not moronic."

Well, if the average IQ is 100, anything that the average person would consider "not really smart" would at least be in the moronic range, would it not?

I used to be a smoker. For 10 years I smoked. Then I wised up and quit. Anyone else can do the same. Your argument assumes that people didn't know the dangers of smoking when they started (which I gotta call BS on, because any elementry kid will tell you the dangers of smoking nowdays) and also assumes that they never know the dangers of smoking, or else they'd quit. That also is not the case. People CHOOSE to smoke and continue smoking regardless of the dangers. That, is moronic.

[The_Almighty_Stan]

I wouldn't go as far as moronic but it is indeed a poor personal decision.

[Chris James]

I dunno. I equate smoking with sniffing paint.

[PhonyMcRingRing]

Why would you want the companies to admit it? Well, there are people still alive from before it was widely known that smoking is really bad for you. Before the warning labels, when people thought it was healthy. Like a sauna for your lungs. These people have every right, moral and legal, to sue the companies. The companies are stonewalling them, insisting there is no proof linking smoking with cancer. They are waiting for these people to die.
Also, there is evidence that these companies have been secretly working on safe cigarettes, or healthier cigarettes, but have not released them because to do so would be to admit that there is something wrong with the old cigarettes. See above. The most surprising thing about nicotine is how harmless it is to a human body at low doses. There's no reason you couldn't addict yourself to nicotine and take it every day your whole life, and never have any health problems. All the problems of cigarettes are associated with the delivery system - infusing it into burning plant material. Inhaling the smoke from just about anything causes cancer. If you increased the temperature it burns at by a few hundred degrees it would vaporize the carcinogens. Or you could infuse it into something harmless like glucose and vaporize that. Or making a decent patch that mimics the arc of a cigarette, rather than slow-releasing a low dose to help you quit.
we *could* be smoking AND not dieing. Admitting that there is something wrong with the current cigarettes is the first step towards that.