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Do not despair if you have failed numerous attempts to quit smoking cigarettes

If smoking cessation seems superhuman effort which, because they do not ask!

In 2000, Reuters cited a report by doctors, said "a strong nicotine addiction resources on a par with heroin and cocaine and was like a drug or medicine can be controlled. "British doctors said on Tuesday.

In ascending order of the slavery of drug abuse:

Five to ten percent of the population is alcoholic.

Less than 50 percent of cocaine and heroin, one or both drugs.

Seventy to eighty percent of smokers are addicted to nicotine.

These statistics are not unlikely some incorrect lobby as NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), which is nothing more than a facade for people, healthy or terminally ill has come that want to increase high on marijuana without penalties or Costs of illegal drugs. It is an effective and acceptable alternative to marijuana. The replacement is the prescription drug Marinol that comes in tablet form and contains THC, the psychoactive ingredient that makes the euphoria or "high" of marijuana available.

In fact, Marinol is more effective than marijuana for treatment of pain, nausea and wasting syndrome. THC-in-a-pill is also safer than smoking grass because of the cannabis plant can be affected by fungi that damage to the lungs of patients with weakened immune systems, such as people with HIV or AIDS. But the Marijuana vs. Marinol debate is a topic for another blog.

The perpetrator you jour America is the most dangerous threat to health in today, cigarettes and the 60 cancer-causing chemicals hidden inside the product delivery system waiting for a 30-year incubation period, to damage the heart and lungs of victims. The suspect 80 percent of tobacco addiction users do not seem more suspicious when we the statistics of the impeccable source, Neal Benowitz learn, MD, director of clinical pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Benowitz also supplied the addiction rates the other drugs listed above.

It is not hysteria or panic the Reefer Madness of nicotine reported diversity that is more addictive than heroin – a call also I had assumed, until I learned delusional by Dr. Benowitz and research credentials. The pharmacologist concluded that nicotine is much more dangerous than heroin, the popular Bogeyboy the zero-tolerance advocates, the clamor for incarceration instead of rehabilitation for alleged drug offenders.

The reference "Zero tolerance" in this column is to subheadline is a lame pun on "zero-tolerance, the legal theory in law established that the mandates will be in prison for first-time drug users regardless of what illict drug found in their possession or blood circulation, and regardless of the amount of the drug. A single marijuana cigarette sends to prison is as safe as kilos of heroin sentenced.

The penalty is a variation on the draconian penalties Others imposed by state ballot propositions from 1994 California Proposition 184 and Washington State 1993 Initiative 593, better known as the "three strikes and you're out "laws. zero tolerance laws allow defendants merely a" strike "and then" they are in. .. "prison. In a 2002 study by Mary Rowe and Corinne Bendersky from Cornell University Press, the researchers maintain that "little evidence to support the alleged effectiveness of the zero-tolerance policy."

There are obvious reasons, heroin and other drugs are prohibited by law and cause stiff penalties while cigarette liquor stores are everywhere. There is no Lobby for heroin or crack users, while tobacco producers and the growth of the industry from prison construction to support the criminalization of drugs. The motivation for Prison construction companies is provided from an undeniable statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice: 36 percent of the federal prison population consists of non-violent drug offenders.

The most deadly drug dealer, cigarette manufacturers and their partners in the profits, the prison construction industry, fund lobbyists to block the legislators' em up and throw away the key convince. The greater the number of imprisoned drug addicts, the fatter the balances prison builders. Drug offenders, of course, are not the only money makers for prison constructors.

Knowledge, a database whose contributors include the CIA and the United Nations, reports that the U.S. more people are caught per capita than any other nation, including Russia, which ranks second. In No. 155, is totalitarian Cuba, not even a contender in the incarceration Competitions. The opponents of communism will be disappointed to learn, be that neo-Stalinist China weighs in at 71st

Corporate tobacco competes with the corner drug dealer for those unfortunate people with addictive personalities. A rich man is $ 34 Cuban cigar is the poor man's crack, which costs $ 3 per gram. This is not the cheap, because the high may appear from a $ 3-worth of crack lasts five minutes. every five minutes – if not for its dangerous effects on users, would crack a perfect product to keep its customers are coming back for more.

Heroin remains the most dangerous drug in the popular imagination, but not in the world of empirical research because street drugs are illegal, while at $ 7 a pack, cigarettes are just prohibitively expensive.

Nobody goes to jail for lighting a Marlboro. They end in cancer treatment centers. Smokers face a grim prognosis. On average they live 14 years less than Non smoking, each cigarette smoked takes over 11 minutes from the life expectancy of a smoker, according to a 2004 report in the journal BMJ, published by the British Medical Association.

When the anti-tobacco crowd had any political clout, and when every other product that his clients' lives so dramatically shortened, and possession of cigarettes Production would be crimes offenses. might deter the victims of the three-pack-a-day habits that were not in prison or health problems caused by the increased costs and deterred by criminalizing the additional risks of street vendors who sell cigarettes would face.

A three-pack-a-day junkie until I left 30 years ago, I can confirm the expereince of anyone who has survived six months of hell nicotine withdrawal. But in a world where tobacco Saner recognized and punishment as provided under the poisonous blight is to smokers, like any other, is drug liquor stores, embezzled company funds rob, snatch purses from little old ladies selling their children as sex slaves to pay for a carton of smokes, and commit other crimes with a lower-class "consumer illegal drugs and the associated forced to steal to fund the next shot.

If you want proof, not speculation, addictive about the power of nicotine, the selfish, dangerous behavior of smoking be considered in the hospital, their friends smuggle cigarettes into the medical facility. I know because I The lunatic, and good / bad girlfriend was thrown from a terminal smoking, the debt-to smuggle me cigarettes in his room at the hospital.

He was dying, so I thought it was too late for my friend, the same 20-year-talk about the ugly death from lung cancer by my father, I found during the two years he nursed suffered coughing mucus over Mt Vesuvius belches smoke. How to unfiltered camels transported to the hospital, I felt as if I were to grant a dying wish, which is impossible to refuse.

This is your lungs to a drug, nicotine. The white area is cancer tumors. The black areas show discoloration caused by smoking.

A Non smoking-lung

During my smuggling, a nurse said to me that what I an act of charity than a dead man was actually irresponsible madness, that the entire hospital could have filled with corpses. The nurse explained that the ubiquitous oxygen tank flammable soaked rags more than old gasoline. (I've always wondered who sucks towels in gas and for what purpose.)

A spark from a cigarette could be a chain reaction of exploding oxygen bottles, killing everyone in the community, possibly in the entire building when it caught on fire. After the nurse finished informative lecture, so my well-meaning but uninformed Smuggling of contraband law.

The macro meets secretly a cancer-causing drug into a cancer ward of more shameful statistics: Each year in the USA, smoked 15 percent or 30,000 lung cancer victims who never heard of second hand smoke of "first hand", which include smoking Non smoking shares living quarters produced . Die More lung cancer casualtiess who never smoked die as leukemia, ovarian cancer and AIDS patients combined, according to a 2007 study, "Lung cancer in never-smokers: Another disease, "in the monthly journal Nature Reviews Cancer Oncology. Lung cancer patients die of the effects of second-hand smoke are innocent Alleged victims of their beloved, their fixed value on the life of their unpopular ones.

Among the smokers and nonsmokers alike, the prognosis for patients with lung cancer gloomy, according to a survival rate of only 14 percent five years diagnosis. Ninety percent of deaths from lung cancer are directly attributable long-term exposure to tobacco smoke in the first or second hand. It is not hype or hysteria call to tobacco poison and accuse their producer of the poisoning of the American people. They are 21st Century reincarnations of the Renaissance Borgias.

Expose and shame tobacco executives from the business.

As we end the scourge that Washington and state tobacco lobbyists to perpetuate?

I can think of two possible solutions that never because of interference Big Tobacco and the legislature to pass it buys. For a sufficiently large campaign contribution, the most zealous advocates of, say, affordable health care insurance Whores for each sector are, no matter how repulsive.

I saw with horror and disbelief of the 2007 Michael Moore documentary, Sicko, an angry Indictment of the corrupting influence of money on politics. Moore filmed Hillary Clinton, whose attempt in 1993, was to provide affordable health care fanned into flames by Republican obstructionists when they took a check of $ 900,000, an umbrella association of lobbyists for health insurance.

The cliche is sadly true: (Almost) everyone has its price.

A candidate for canonization by the Pope, who joined the Hitler Youth and was lent their moral imprimatur Mother Teresa right-Latin American Dictators, because they made massive contributions to their charities, according to a BBC documentary, Holy Cow. What is a bit of torture and murder, if the Perpetrators subsidize leper hospital in Calcutta?

A solution for a disease that kills more people than AIDS: Tax cigarettes from the Existence. Or make it a luxury only for rich and upper middle-class nicotine addicts.

As a liberal, or should I say "progressive" because the "L-word" has become almost as unpronounceable these days as "N-word, I usually oppose regressive taxes, ie taxes that burden the poor more than the rich because everyone pays the same rate regardless of income. But if there is such an animal as a benign regressive tax, it would mean an exception to my Resistance to raise taxes the poor the same rate as the rich. Federal taxes are considered progressive, as wealthy people pay a higher share of taxes on their income than the middle class or poor.

Sculpting an additional 100 percent tax on a $ 7 pack of cigarettes would probably not stop wealthy Nicotine addict from payment for his resolve. A $ 14 pack of cigarettes but could motivate many middle-income and poor smokers to give up their deadly Habit. Unfortunately, the tobacco lobby is not the only culprit that prevents cigarette tax by mistake from his existence.

Federal, state and local authorities are also Addicts. Are you addicted to tobacco taxes on sales of 100 billion U.S. dollars. One might think that a 100-percent tax increase would government officials in large Booster of a new tax that another 100 billion U.S. dollars in its coffers would like to add on. But the decline in tobacco sales to yield double the cost could give a pack of cigarettes Booster second thoughts about the increased tax rate. And with the added douceur of bribes, er, a large campaign donation would turn tax-booster in tax busters.

Ironically, there is a large constituency that everything from the corporate tobacco bring business support and cigarettes would reach. The change would be unlikely from the millions of addicts who are not willing nicotine gum and Smoking cessation programs will make a huge profit source. Slightly more than twenty-smoking, they are invincible after all the friends observed 60somethings have to believe – Or himself – to die from lung cancer or heart disease caused by the 60 carcinogens in their method of choice.

For those who are constitutionally not in a able to give up a habit, they seem to hate, but can not exit, a horrendous increase the cost of cigarettes due to confiscatory taxation would not necessarily End of the problematic behavior realize smoking is finally at the end of their lives.

In fact, her shock and humiliation, middle-class smokers, not to break the law under other circumstances, would think could engage in the same white collar crime or moral lapses – check embezzlement, Kiten plunder their children College Fund – the cocaine addicts from the same socio-economic class to commit at the end.

Current progressive thinking recommends Rehabilitation instead of prison for drug addicts and alcoholics from soft time in prison for DUI convictions Country Club. But "Rehab" for many smokers just do not – like every drop of expensive smoking cessation seminars will tell you. There is evidence that not clearly hopeless smoking a gene or genes that enable them make it impossible to have an end, as some researchers believe that there is a gene that predisposes individuals to drug abuse – so-called addictive personalities whose genetic predisposition is suspected, but still undiscovered.

The combination of the two methods of struggle against the use of a toxic drug – rehabilitation Prison – maybe the addiction-two punch that finally freed from the slavery of Chainsmoker.

There is a solution even less likely that the chances like a snowball has in Haiti. Use the same weapon of the tobacco industry, advertising, corporate against drug dealers. Instead of criminalizing drug use, would a campaign Cigarette manufacturers as a moral rather than legal stigmatize offenders.

Only a tiny part of the additional 100 billion U.S. dollars of revenue from increased Taxation of cigarettes would be necessary to campaigns by government health agencies and private interest groups approved funds, such as the American Cancer Society and the Lung Cancer Alliance. In recent years, every U.S. Surgeon General, the original tobacco-Nazi, tobacco carcinogenic toxin is identified. The condemnation of the nation's top doc, an additional Weapon would be in the media jihad.

The campaigns might as ugly as the tobacco industry to target. The media would be attacking an account that "green" Advertising agencies would end up fighting and perhaps based on use of Pro-Bono, neutralizing the argument that should not tax money is spent entering Efforts.

The evil nature of the following proposal would be justified because the ends in this case – the prevention of the death of 1.3 million victims of tobacco products annually in the world – would more than justify the necessary cruelty of monstrous plan I suggest.

For starters, plaster coast to coast, with huge billboards headshots of tobacco company CEOs, their names and the names of the cartels to the head. One of many outrageous slogans could be something like this to read: "This 'gentleman' may not fit the popular stereotype of drug dealers, but that's exactly what they are." The only difference between the two types of traders is that the product peddled by one of the groups is yet to be criminalized. And these legal traders still do not like Criminals should be treated.

Lock 'em up and throw away their golden parachutes, so that after their release from prison, they will not have the financial Means to slide back into their 8-digit penthouses and apartments summer in the Hamptons, they occupy only a few weeks a year. Do not Get Me Started on $ 6,000 shower curtains and all The other conspicuous consumption that newly rich enjoy the old money and envied because of dwindling trust fund.

If a single victim of her husband electronic purse, pulls a soup Con compassion for homeless women Bernie Madoff? I think not. And it would't much pity from the pending Victim of a crime much worse. After all, Bernie "only" his impoverished victims, in contrast to the drug dealers who sell cigarettes, he would not . Kill

The defamation lawsuits that inevitably follow such as inflammatory, but that "job descriptions" corporate drug dealer if two synergistic Functions do. Extra free advertising on the front pages of newspapers across the country would neglect the fact that these monsters are tobacco legally peddle their universe a narcotic that kills millions and increased medical costs, which in turn increases health insurance premiums.

The coast to coast this embarrassment could literally poster boys for legal crime, charities, lives with funds that come save that contribute to ending life top managers chase come from the business home of their children at school, complained: "All the children say, my father is a crook!" My sympathy for those innocent victims of collateral damage by the realization that to do all the daddy to bullying in the schoolyard of his children has decreased at the end is the end of his membership of a criminal enterprise responsible for more deaths than Murder Inc.

If enough children their parents, pressure from the Fortune-500-Mafia retirement, finally, the only employees is prepared to occupy the executive suites are the people who currently dust and wipe it.

About the Author

Investigative journalist and author Frank Sanello has written 26 books, including The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another (recently published in China after its American release); Saving America: Solutions for a Nation in Crisis, co-written with Dr. Adel Shenouda, Professor Emeritus of Nephrology at the University of Tennessee); The Knights Templars: God’s Warriors, the Devil’s Bankers; and Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America. His blog is at www.politicallyimpolite.com

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