smoking makes you stupid

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: GUEST,Mr. Butts
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 08:47 AM

Smoking on the brain

If they don't wreck your lungs first, cigarettes will wreak havoc in the brain, a new study says. Dutch researchers found that smoking speeds dementia and Alzheimer's -- likely by clogging delicate brain arteries -- and that elderly puffers face mental decline five times faster than non-smokers.

Maclean's Magazine, April 12, 2004

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/health/article.jsp?content=20040412_78705_78705

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: Betsy
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 12:51 PM

Was Monica Lewivnsky stupid before, after (or ever) when being loosely connected with the Presidents's cigar ??
She seems to have done OK out of "smoking".

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: GUEST,an ex-smoker
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 01:27 PM

It's quite fascinating looking back at this thread from three years ago and the rationalizations by some in defence of their smoking.

To me, the most interesting post was from Bill/Sables on 18 Jun 01 - 03:48 PM. He justifies his being a smoker by listing off the names of smokers he admires. Included on the list was the late Mudcatter Rick Fielding.

I wonder how Rick might feel now being on that list.

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 02:53 PM

The only way a person can possibly justify smoking is by saying: "I like it."

But what the heck...a herion addict likes his fix too, doesn't he?

And there actually is no way of justifying such a stupid and unnatural habit.

- LH

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 02:55 PM

Ahem * heroin

Subject: Surgeon General's new report
From: GUEST,The non-smoking section
Date: 28 May 04 - 03:35 PM

Surgeon General: Smoking causes even more diseases.

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 May 04 - 08:05 PM

apart from the nicotine addiction, i think the sucking in on a cigarette gives a relaxation response related to the sucking instinct from when we were breastfed or bottlefed as babies. This is a very deep instinct, and a very comforting response.

as someone who has never smoked, I'm glad I never started. my sister started when she was fifteen, and has been trying to give up ever since. I feel just lucky I never started, for some people its extremely difficult to give up, and all the research in the world won't help.

freda

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: Sam L
Date: 29 May 04 - 02:22 AM

No. The sensible justification of smoking is that you want to die. Especially all the smug self-righteous pea-brained idiots in the world, they make you want to die. Remember the years before you were born? Wasn't too bad, really. Nobody missed you.

The psychological interest of smoking is, I think, aesthetic distance. And maybe punctuation. It breaks things up, like commas, and you sit back, look, and have to laugh, I think.

Who says the human life-span should be this long, or this long, or this much longer. The fact is the average life span is growing faster than the average reasons for living. Unless it's a good thing to hang around to take reductive pot-shots at dead people like Rick Fielding whose lives were probably more worthwhile than yours if you live to be a thousand you sick-minded child, you dim pitiable window-licking forgetable face on a bus going nowhere.

What kind of rat-cheese notion of intelligence, (exactly as if life was mathmatical, or monetary, exactly the same sort of stupid) what crowd-up-to-the-school-cafeteria lunch-line rationale is there for wanting to gnaw up every second of life you can grubbily claw at? To be sure you get your chicken patty and jello, by God? So you can sit around typing on the internet about how you're much righter than other people? Nice. Get hit by a bus already, you're wasting space some younger decent person could use.

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 May 04 - 10:49 PM

I have never need to smoke - I was born this way...

Subject: RE: smoking makes you stupid
From: GUEST,Dr. Myers
Date: 18 Jun 04 - 10:42 AM

Fact: Nonsmokers die too.

The best way to avoid dying is to wear a seatbelt!

Goodluck to all those trying to quit -

Addiction only gets worse, stop now.