Nanny would rather you die
Anti-tobacco activists are some of the worst purveyors of misinformation and hysteria. They’re as bad as anti-gunners in terms of doom and gloom but, unlike anti-gunners, the underlying concept for them is correct. Tobacco abuse is actually bad for you. But they’re still idiots. Seems RJR is marketing snus to those who want to quit smoking. This has the nanny idiots’ panties all bunched up:
Matt Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said that Reynolds should “stop its insidious marketing of tobacco products in ways that seek to discourage smokers from quitting and keep them hooked on nicotine.”
Smokeless tobacco has been shown to be substantially safer than cigarettes. And a study shows snus beat out the pharmaceutical alternatives for quitting smoking. Some governments would rather people die than try an alternative to cigarettes. And if we listened to idiots like Myers, more people would die.
Via MKS.
January 4th, 2011 at 11:18 am
and the ladies love a nice lip full o’Skoal. Trust me.
January 4th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Well said ‘Uncle.
January 4th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
snus is popular and common in Scandinavia, where i’m from. gives you cancers of the mouth and jaw instead of the lungs, corrodes away the soft tissues on the insides of your lip and gums. the spit-out wads are just as disgusting as cigarette butts, too.
but all that said, if people just have to be addicted to nicotine, i prefer they use smokeless kinds to smoking. snus, at least, doesn’t pollute the air i have to breathe too.
January 4th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
My grandfather chewed Mail Pouch for just about 80 years. My other grandfather chewed plug tobacco for over 50 years, and started doing so on the advice of a doctor- told him it’d help his asthma. Neither one had any issues with cancers, oral or otherwise.
I’ve never smoked, but I’ve chewed Red Man (when I could no longer find Union Standard) for nearly 40 years. The only thing I don’t like about it? The nannyists in our state legislature hiked an additional $1.33 per ounce tax on it, effective Labor Day 2009. What I used to pay $4.00 for went to $8 and higher. Maybe we can fix that this year when they meet in Austin.
Smokeless tobacco is a hallmark of Viking Manliness.
As such, to wit:
http://www.arthurshall.com/x_gospel_of_chew.shtml
http://www.arthurshall.com/x_2006_tobacco.shtml
Regards,
Rabbit.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
I started smoking at age 11, when I was stealing my uncle’s L&Ms. At age fifteen, I could buy my own cigarettes at $0.40 a pack, and I started smoking Marlboro Red. Now, at age fifty-four, I smoke two packs a day. I don’t see many people my age smoking. I see kids smoking. I want to slap each of them upside the head and say “You’re paying to kill yourself, idiot”.
January 4th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I finally quit smoking by starting chewing. I tried everything from cutting down, going cold turkey and even tried the little blue pill(no, not that one). I smoked a pack and a half of Camel lights for 15 years until that one tax hike in 2009 (roughly 6 bucks a pack in AZ) and then started to smoke the roll your own to save money (about 3 bucks a pack). One day I looked at the price of a can of dip and it was about 2 bucks for the cheap stuff and thought thats worth it to quit. I am still a nicotine addict but now I have more money, breathe easier and by blood pressure is lower. If you smoke, and are tired of coughing all the time and having a cold means you’ll be sick for three weeks, do something about it and you’ll be happy you did.
January 5th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Snus is ridiculously safer than smoking.
No lung cancer.
No COPD/emphysema
Little or no cardiovascular disease.
And LESS mouth and throat cancer than smoking.
Not zero, but less.
And if snus users didn’t also drink alcohol, this might drop too.
Only pancreatic cancer is similar to smoking, but this is relatively rare.
And yet snus remains illegal in the EU, except for Sweden and Norway, which have dramatically lowered mortality from smoking compared to their anal retentive EU neighbors.
Yes, quit or die, strictly enforced.