When I was a little girl (maybe around 6 years old) my great uncle John (who was a several pack a day smoker) took out a white handkerchief. He took a deep drag off his cigarette and then held the handkerchief up to his mouth and blew through the fabric.
I recall being horrified as this pristine white handkerchief developed a brown spot where he'd blown the smoke through it. He said, "I want you to remember this and never smoke when you grow up. It's too late for me. But think what this does to my lungs."
My great uncle eventually died of emphysema.
I don't care what this fellow says about the so called "benefits of nicotine". It causes emphysema and lung cancer.
Wrong. Smoking tobacco causes it. Nicotine itself is not a carcinogen. A nicotine patch will not give you emphysema. There's nicotine in tomatoes, potatos and many other foods
The tobacco companies themselves admitted it did cause cancer, but only when long jail sentences were staring them in the face.
In the UK about 30 years ago a tobacco company marketed a nicotine chewing gum targeted at children called Skoal Bandits. This gave Scots children mouth, tongue and throat cancers as well as lung cancers. It was banned after a huge outcry but only after the government had stonewalled any attempts to stop it.
When I was a little girl (maybe around 6 years old) my great uncle John (who was a several pack a day smoker) took out a white handkerchief. He took a deep drag off his cigarette and then held the handkerchief up to his mouth and blew through the fabric.
I recall being horrified as this pristine white handkerchief developed a brown spot where he'd blown the smoke through it. He said, "I want you to remember this and never smoke when you grow up. It's too late for me. But think what this does to my lungs."
My great uncle eventually died of emphysema.
I don't care what this fellow says about the so called "benefits of nicotine". It causes emphysema and lung cancer.
Wrong. Smoking tobacco causes it. Nicotine itself is not a carcinogen. A nicotine patch will not give you emphysema. There's nicotine in tomatoes, potatos and many other foods
How can you smoke nicotine? You can't.
The tobacco companies themselves admitted it did cause cancer, but only when long jail sentences were staring them in the face.
In the UK about 30 years ago a tobacco company marketed a nicotine chewing gum targeted at children called Skoal Bandits. This gave Scots children mouth, tongue and throat cancers as well as lung cancers. It was banned after a huge outcry but only after the government had stonewalled any attempts to stop it.
There were no prosecutions