Newsmax has hit the absolute bottom

[davidinalameda]

when you thought that these morans couldn't go any lower, they publish a pro-smoking article

--smoking isn't addictive
--smoking is actually good for you

these people are absolute idiots!

http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/2/8/221328.shtml

[MostlyLurks]

1. Not to mention the fact that it's ostensibly "pro-drug" n/t

[davidinalameda]

8. but it's a "good" drug

just like Lush and his oxycontin

[MostlyLurks]

22. Back when the OxyRush thing broke

I had a few acquaintances who listened to Rush, so I took the "I'm on your side" tactic by arguing that Oxycontin was a "white" drug, where Rush's screeds and tirades had clearly been directed at "black" drugs. I don't know if any of them understood what I was doing.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Did they dig up the Marlboro Man to question him?

Or did they find one of those docs from the 50's who used to advertise that Chesterfield cigs were actually good for you?

And ANYONE who has tried to quit smoking knows better than to believe that cigs aren't addictive.

I quit 3 years ago and I STILL have an urge to smoke now and again.

[pstokely]

14. see

[HuckleB]

3. That's funny.

Say no to drugs and pick yourself up by the bootstraps, but when under stress it's ok to use drugs.

[ET Awful]

4. I like how he makes the leap in "logic" that in WWII they had non-smokers

carry a pack to help out the smokers because they thought it was good for you. Seems to me that the reason they had them carry them is because when that physical addiction kicked in, the smoking soldier without his fix was less able to function.

What a fool.

[WilliamPitt]

5. I'm a big fan of smoking

because, well, I smoke.

But this is some of the dumbest shit ever printed:

"The anti-smoking fanatics have convinced the world that tobacco is addictive. The experience of the millions of ex-smokers who quit proved how false that idea is. If it is really an addiction, most of those who have quit would not have succeeded and many of those who had quit would have been backsliders who finally gave in to the urge and went back to smoking."

[underpants]

6. Low? Did you notice the banner ad in the middle of the page?

[TwentyFive]

10. I'm afraid to know their definition of a 'desirable' woman.

Pickles is the perfect woman. I think she's had a lobotomy.

[AlCzervik]

23. and a pack of pall mall's in her tube top.

[0007]

19. ....part of that sleazy advertisement

Secrets to Being a "Bar Star"-- How to Get Desirable Women to Pick YOU Up at a Bar (Imagine the look on the faces of all the "jerks" when the woman they've been buying drinks for all night chooses you over them... and you haven't spent one thin dime!)

I'd like to see photos of these future "Bar Stars" LOL!!

[mdhunter]

7. HAHAHAHAHAHA (breath) HAHAHAHAHAH!

"The anti-smoking fanatics have convinced the world that tobacco is addictive. The experience of the millions of ex-smokers who quit proved how false that idea is. If it is really an addiction, most of those who have quit would not have succeeded and many of those who had quit would have been backsliders who finally gave in to the urge and went back to smoking.

Don't believe that? Take a look at those addicted to hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Those are real addictions, and the record of cures for those addictions is dismal. Most addicts die as addicts."

Yeah, no one has ever tried to quit smoking and failed. Sure. It's not like that hasn't happened on the order of 247 times already this minute.

Also consider that while detoxing people for serious narcotics addiction no one would dare take them off cigarettes simultaneously, and that it seems likely that more people successfully quit cocaine, per user, than nicotine.

[txaslftist]

11. put me on the tried and failed list...

[TwentyFive]

9. Smoking = Perfect for conservatives!

It's their solution to SS...shorter lives = less time to collect SS. Brilliant.

Or perhaps, they figure the Rapture is gonna get them in the end.

[MsTryska]

12. actually - for the underground science of it all....

nicotine actually has a beneficial role in Alzheimers (smokers ar eless likely to get it), Parkinsons (it ameliorate the rapid degradation), and Paranoid Schizophrenia (99.99% of untreated schizophrenics smoke as self-medication). This all has to do with the way nicotine interacts with dopamine receptors.

[tom_paine]

13. The absurd has been mainstreamed

Who says Life doesn't imitate art?

Imperial Amerika becomes more like Woody Allen's "Sleeper" every day.

Think they are going to try and clone Poppy Augustus' nose?

[gratuitous]

15. Tobacco isn't addictive

It's the nicotine, folks.

Back in the 1960s, Philip Morris and the other tobacco companies experimented with de-nicotinized cigarettes. They found out that people smoking cigarettes without nicotine could quit smoking rather easily. This was clearly bad news for the industry, and the trials were stopped.

To this day, if you see a "low tar and nicotine" brand, the nicotine content is never lower than 1.0 mg (which is the level achieved by the government smoking machine, levels being higher in actual smoking) per unit, which the cigarette manufacturers determined to be the absolute lower limit to keep people smoking in sufficient numbers as to maintain their corporate profit margins.

[DrWeird]

16. And it makes you look cool.

Hey kids, try it at home!

[zbdent]

17. Don't forget the other tired argument -

"Think of all the migrant workers that would be put out of jobs!"

Yep, those sub-minimum wagers.

You know, if smoke breaks were eliminated, and people stopped smoking, I would bet productivity would go up more than just the fact of having less people doing more people's work.

And people might actually enjoy longer lives . . .

[FlyByNight]

18. By all means then, light 'em up...

conservatives. Or, might I suggest, eh, heroin?

:evilgrin:

[tabasco]

20. Next from Newsmax: "Bad rap for mercury in drinking water?"

I'm not sure when I'm awake or sleeping anymore.

[HughBeaumont]

21. My grandmother died at the age of 49.

She didn't even get to live her life because she was a slave to a plant with an addictive substance. Why? Back when she started, they had athletes shill them shitty things and they were even advertised as a "relaxant" and a "digestive aid".

It happened when I was eight, but 28 years later, I've still never touched a smokeable product because of it.

[Bouncy Ball]

24. SMOKING CRACK IS GOOD FOR YOU TOO!!!

It must be, the "writers" at Newsmax do it!

[davidinalameda]

25. congrats

best post in the thread of many great posts!

:bounce:

[Bouncy Ball]

26. Well thank you!

:bounce: