I did not write this. It comes from here- https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/sci.med.nutrition/jcAkBLjmMTs Feel free to discuss! Here are few beneficial effects of organic tobacco smoke (most not due to nicotine): 1. Upregulates glutathione (by 80%), catalase and SOD (by 100%). 2. Selective MAO B inhibition (by 40%), much safer and more harmonious with overall biochemistry than via selegiline. Smokers in their 50s have MAO B of non-smokers in their 20s. 3. Dopamine (throughout the body, including brain), acetylcholine and norepinephrine are also stimulated directly (protective & therapeutic for ADD, Tourette, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia). 4. Upregulates pregnenolone, DHEA and testosterone and slows down their decline with age (protective against endometrial cancer & endometriosis). 5. Upregulates telomerase and suppresses apoptosis (protects against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, also via 1,2 & 3; e.g. resulting in tenfold lowered rates for early onset Alzheimer's, twelvefold for early Parkinson's; protective in strokes & spinal injuries). 6. Upregulates vascular growth factor (via nicotine CO, NO). 7. Provides CoQ10 (which is even manufactured from tobacco) & niacin directly into arterial bloodstream. 8. Upregulates neutrophiles (by 20%) 9. Reduces appetite and increase basal metabolism. 10. Suppresses amyloidosis throughout tissues, not just brain 12. Improves insulin sensitivity, protects against & alleviates diabetes. 13. Anti-inflammatory effects at multiple levels, from T-cells through CNS vagus/'cholinergic anti-inflammatory' pathway (therapeutic & protective against asthma, allergies, ulcerative colitis, IBD, colon cancer, apthous ulcers, arthritis, pre-eclampsia, endotoxemia, polymicrobial sepsis...) 14. Downregulates IGF-1 15. Downregulates NF-kB 16. Upregulates bFGF (basic fibroblast growth factor) and MMPs (expression of several matrix metalloproteinases) 17. Increases BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) expression 18. Reduces TNF-alpha and increases adiponectin (adipocyte effects) ... and so on. The net effect is that smoking animals (such as mice, rats, hamsters, dogs,... even those smoking at 5+ packs/day equivalents) live about 20% longer, stay 10-15% thinner and sharper throughout. Smokers are over-represented among supercentenarians and, among others the oldest man and the oldest women ever were smokers (the only two humans who lived over 120). The current oldest man is also a lifelong smoker. The oldest marathon runner (completed London marathon at age 101) even smoked few cigarettes during the marathon. After 6+ decades of massive efforts to demonstrate experimentally any harm at all from inhalation of tobacco smoke, pharma sponsored antismoking researchers still don't know how to shorten the lifespans of test animals via inhalation of tobacco smoke, short of gross smoke asphixiation (you could cause same kind of overdose harm with plain water and it's easier to overdose on water than on tobacco smoke). The entire antismoking "science" (sponsored and publicised mainly by Big Pharma, which battles and suppresses as much as it can all other natural & folk medicines as well) rests entirely on blind statistical correlations on non-randomized (self-selected subjects) samples of smoking with 'smoking related diseases'. Such non-randomized correlations are equally consistent with beneficial and causal role of tobacco smoke in those diseases. This is no different than observing that people using statins or blood pressure medications will have more heart attacks than those not using them. Or that people wearing sunglasses will have more sunburns and skin cancers thn those not wearing them. Sunglasses are merely a statistical marker for sun exposure. Similarly, use of tobacco smoke is a proxy for any exposure or biochemical/genetic malfunction for which the enumerated effects are protective and therapeutic. For example, the upregulation of the main internal antixoidants & detox enzymes (1), implies that tobacco smoking will protect against and alleviate the harmful effects of most industrial and environmental toxins, hence people suffering such toxic exposures, or those especially sensitive to them, would perceive tangible benefits from smoking due to doubled detox rates (this has been experimentally verified animal experiments and observed in human studies), thus they would smoke more than general population, resulting thus in statistical correlations with diseases (e.g. lung cancer, copd) caused by the very same toxins against which tobacco smoke is protective. See references & further discussions here: Site: Smoking is good for you (a friend who liked ideas) http://www.wispofsmo...goodforyou.html Some online books & papers for the above page http://www.wispofsmo.../goodreads.html The Scientific Scandal of Antismoking http://members.iinet...ay/TSSOASb.html Discussion 1 (imminst/nootropic forum) http://www.imminst.o....5da1c047f937d... Discussion 2 (imminst/nootropic forum) http://www.imminst.o...ho...p=263376&... Discussion in nootropic section of m&m forum http://www.mindandmu....p...;st=30&p=... Harm from quitting http://forum.ryorevo...?p=14089#p14089 Refs & discussion of longevity experiments & facts http://www.freerepub.../posts?page=#13 Amyloidosis effects http://scholar.googl....amp;q=amyloid... Neurotrophic effects http://scholar.googl......ffects (nic... Neuroprotective effects http://scholar.googl......e effects (... Petr Skrabanek (books in pdf format) * Follies and Fallacies in Medicine http://www.curezone.....lacies-in-Med... * Death of Humane Medicine http://www.curezone....ne-Medicine.pdf * False Premises False Promises http://www.curezone.....False-Promise...
I always had trouble focusing, caffeine doesnt really help, but tobacco works well for me, but i really dont use tobacco that much, cause of it being addictive
I know it's smoother and tastes and smells better, not sure about being less addictive but I'd go ahead and say it's the same as regular.
Cannabis to be exact, I don't call it marijuana because that's the name the demented government gave it
Well my point of view is cannabis has been criticized so much and still does, even though it is pointless propaganda , so I don't consider it a drug. My reasons are it virtually does no harm to you. So why do you want to keep labeling it as something that is with bad stuff called drugs. And fuck alcohol, tobacco, & caffeine I don't do drugs.
Your missing out... lol and btw bud is a drug. Just because something is called a drug doesn't mean its 'bad'.
Nicotine is the addictive ingredient. I wouldn't think it would make any difference how it is grown. Once you're addicted you will need the same amount of nicotine to satisfy the craving. Smoking "light" cigarettes is no answer; you'll just smoke more of them, so the actual amount of nicotine in any given tobacco doesn't really matter. Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known. I smoked for 30+ years, but finally kicked it 13 years ago. It wasn't easy, and it took multiple tries spanning all those years.
Its not worth smoking because it does virtually nothing for you whilst providing you with plenty of harmful carcinogens. but Hey, Smoke up Johnny
You do a drug. Whether you like it or not, cannabis is a drug. The definition of a drug, to paraphrase it, is anything that changes your state of mind. Do you say you have an altered perception of reality when high? You get relaxed, you are generally happier, and there's a buzz.