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Monadnock
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2/7/2008 7:05 PM
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UN: 'Tobacco Epidemic' Could Kill 1B By 2100
NEW YORK (AP) ― Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.
Governments around the world collect more than $200 billion in tobacco taxes every year but spend less than one fifth of 1 percent of that revenue on tobacco control, it said.
"We hold in our hands the solution to the global tobacco epidemic that threatens the lives of one billion men, women and children during this century," WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said in an introduction to the report.
The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 calls on all countries to dramatically increase efforts to prevent young people from beginning to smoke, help smokers quit, and protect nonsmokers from exposure to second hand smoke.
It urges governments to adopt six "tobacco control policies" -- raise taxes and prices of tobacco; ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; protect people from second hand smoke; warn people about the dangers of tobacco; help those who want to quit smoking; and monitor tobacco use to understand and reverse the epidemic.
"The tobacco epidemic already kills 5.4 million people a year from lung cancer, heart disease and other illnesses," Chan said. "Unchecked, that number will increase to more than 8 million a year by 2030."
Chan was launching the report with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, helped fund it.
According to the report, nearly two thirds of the world's smokers live in 10 countries -- China, which accounts for nearly 30 percent, India for about 10 percent, Indonesia, Russia, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Germany and Turkey.
It forecast that more than 80 percent of tobacco-related deaths will be in low- and middle-income countries by 2030.
Tobacco use is growing fastest in low-income countries, the report said, "due to steady population growth coupled with tobacco industry targeting, ensuring that millions of people become fatally addicted each year."
While standard cigarettes are most common, WHO said other types of smoked tobacco are also "lethal," including small hand-rolled cigarettes called bidis which are smoked in India and other Southeast Asian nations, clove and tobacco cigarettes called Kreteks smoked in Indonesia, and tobacco cured with flavorings known as shisha smoked from water pipes.
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Monadnock
User ID: 367973
2/7/2008 7:07 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
ADVERTISE & ADDICT= PROFITS & DEATH |
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Turtles Know 
Warning: Turtles Bite
User ID: 286176
2/7/2008 7:14 PM
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wonder how many people would die in 100 years without smoking?
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 350460
2/7/2008 7:26 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:29 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
War killed or was indirectly responisble for over 270 Million deaths in the 20th Century. We need to ban War first. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:30 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
How many people since its inception has the WHO killed ? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 132975
2/7/2008 7:30 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
wonder how many people would die in 100 years without smoking? Quoting: Turtles Know
Given the proliferation of NWO-style governments around the world, it will certainly be a shitload more than one measly billion.
I mean, that's only a trivial 10 million deaths per year, world-wide, over and above natural deaths, of course.
Governments are, by far, the biggest murderers of all time.
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Evil Twin 
Senior Forum Moderator
User ID: 239180
2/7/2008 7:30 PM
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Heaven forbid we allow people to make their own choices, we know what's best, so we must control them.
To visualize the coming apocalypse, imagine, if you will, Oprah & Rosie O'Donnell wrestling for the last rib at an all-you can-eat Bar-B-Q... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 335123
2/7/2008 7:31 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 350460
That is so true. My family on both sides always live to over 100. All 2 pack a day smokers. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:31 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
wonder how many people would die in 100 years without smoking? Quoting: Turtles Know
Given that at the moment the world's life expectancy is not much over 80 years, I would suggest that within the next 100 years or at the end of the next 100 years nearly 6.5 billion people will have died of "natural causes" or unnatural causes. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:32 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
It is indeed staggering to realize that nearly everyone alive today of all the current 6.5 Billion people will be dead in 100 years. Given the 6.5 Billion people alive today, just how many are right now over the age of 100 years old? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:35 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Governments are, by far, the biggest murderers of all time. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 132975
Not so. Acutally, that would be DEATH the biggest murder of all ALL time. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:36 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 350460
Lung cancer almost didn't even exist until after July 16th, 1945. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:38 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Hitler was against smoking. Here we find the candidate for the US Presidency, soon to be announced from the Indepedence Party of America, Bloomberg, the Unifying Savior of the USA, clandestine member of the British Tory Party doing this: "Chan was launching the report with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, helped fund it." |
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Bigboat
User ID: 308340
2/7/2008 7:41 PM
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life time smoker , I am 62 , never sick , ever
this is what is killing people , they tell you on one hand that its smoking . Its not
on the other hand they tell you what its really all about
[link to www.cancer.gov]
U.S.National Instituts of Health
How Americans Were Exposed
During the Cold War, the United States developed and tested nuclear weapons in an effort to deter and to be fully prepared for nuclear attacks from other nations. Most of the above-ground U.S. nuclear tests were conducted in Nevada from 1951 to 1963. As a result of these tests, potentially health-harming radioactive materials were released into the atmosphere and produced fallout.
I-131 was among the radioactive materials released by the atomic bomb tests. It was carried thousands of miles away from the test areas on the winds. Because of wind and rainfall patterns, the distribution of fallout varied widely after each test. Therefore, although all areas of the U.S. received fallout from at least one nuclear weapons test, certain areas of North America received more fallout than others.
Scientists estimate that the larger amounts of I-131 fell over some parts of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana. But I-131 traveled to all states, particularly those in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Northeastern United States. Some of the I-131 collected on pastures and on grasses, where it was consumed by cows and goats.
When consumed by cows or goats, I-131 collects in the animals' milk. Eating beef from cows exposed to I-131 carried little risk. Much of the health risk associated with I-131 occurred among milk-drinkers—usually children. From what is known about thyroid cancer and radiation, scientists think that people who were children during the period of atomic bomb testing are at higher risk for developing thyroid cancer.
In addition to nuclear testing in Nevada, Americans were exposed to I-131 through:
Nuclear testing elsewhere in the world (mainly in the 1950s and 1960s)
Nuclear power plant accidents (such as the Chornobyl accident in 1986, also known as Chernobyl)
Releases from atomic weapons production plants (such as the Hanford facility in Washington state from 1944 to 1957)
Scientists are working to find out more about ways to measure and address potential I-131 exposure from other sources. Scientists are also working to find out more about other radioactive substances released by fallout and about their possible effects on human health.
The dirt is full of this shit , think about this the next time the wind blows up some dust .
or the next time you go to the beach and kick some sand around .
Its about the liability , easy to blame smoking
The Milk Connection
People younger than 15 at the time of above-ground testing (between 1951 and 1963) who drank milk, and who lived in the Mountain West, Midwestern, Eastern, and Northeastern United States, probably have a higher thyroid cancer risk from exposure to I-131 in fallout than other people. Their thyroid glands were still developing during the testing period. And they were more likely to have consumed milk contaminated with I-131. The amount of I-131 people absorbed depends on:
Their age during the testing period (between 1951 and 1963)
The amount and source of milk they drank in those years
Where they lived during the testing period
Age and residence during the Cold War years are usually known. But few people can recall the exact amounts or sources of the milk they drank as children. While the amount of milk consumed is important in determining exposure to I-131, it is also important to know the source of the milk. Fresh milk from backyard or farm cows and goats usually contained more I-131 than store-bought milk. This is because processing and shipping milk allowed more time for the I-131 to break down. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 132975
2/7/2008 7:42 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer.
That is so true. My family on both sides always live to over 100. All 2 pack a day smokers. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 335123
I love the story of the old French lady, who lived to be the oldest woman (officially) in the world, quite recently.
I think she lived to be about 112, but gave up a lifetime of smoking delicious (and naturally cured - no chemicals added) "caporal" cigarettes when she reached her 96th birthday! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 13448
2/7/2008 7:43 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 350460
A good buddy of mine's Grandfather, smoked a cigar for probably 50yrs, he lived to be 96. Completely sane and mobile the whole time and died in his sleep. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 357364
2/7/2008 7:43 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Man, I'm so glad I quit smoking a few years ago. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 13448
2/7/2008 7:45 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 350460
A good buddy of mine's Grandfather, smoked a cigar for probably 50yrs, he lived to be 96. Completely sane and mobile the whole time and died in his sleep. |
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Monadnock
User ID: 367973
2/7/2008 7:45 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
CIGARETTE SMOKING KILLS |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 132975
2/7/2008 7:46 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Governments are, by far, the biggest murderers of all time.
Not so. Acutally, that would be DEATH the biggest murder of all ALL time. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 330782
Death, is a natural process.
MURDER, requires intelligent INTENT.
Look forward to a veritable shedload of MURDER, as we lurch ahead into our brave, new world.
Murder on a scale that would leave Stalin, Mao, Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan, gasping for breath.
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meroj
User ID: 310532
2/7/2008 7:47 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
wonder how many people would die in 100 years without smoking? Quoting: Turtles Know
Oh...I'd say, roughly, 6 to 6 1/2 billion dead in 100 years. Merely a guess. (...most of that probably by second hand smoke! ;) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 362074
2/7/2008 7:47 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer.
Lung cancer almost didn't even exist until after July 16th, 1945. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 330782
Exactement.
I predict a stupidity epidemic will kill far more than 1 measly billion in the next few years.
Dumb people should carry a label warning others that associating with them can cause death. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 132975
2/7/2008 7:48 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer.
A good buddy of mine's Grandfather, smoked a cigar for probably 50yrs, he lived to be 96. Completely sane and mobile the whole time and died in his sleep. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13448
Lovely.
That's the way I intend to go - a "George Burns" finish, with the recent memory of a fine cigar, well-smoked (if not, a hot young woman, well seen-to)!
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 304329
2/7/2008 7:50 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
There is hidden reason why the elite are so afraid of people smoking..
It is touched upon in the book "Cosmic Serpant", and is to do with the interaction with spirit, aswell as openning people up to higher channels of consciousness.
Some natives still use the more psychoactive variety of tobacco..
The only thing in Tobacco that kills is the added chemicals the corporations add!! Over 3 pages of A4 paper are needed to list them all.
Fuck the elite. Fuck the UN. Fuck the NWO.
Smoking > Drinking
Id rather smoke than drink colourful and glorified poison. |
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meroj
User ID: 310532
2/7/2008 7:50 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
wonder how many people would die in 100 years without smoking?
Given that at the moment the world's life expectancy is not much over 80 years, I would suggest that within the next 100 years or at the end of the next 100 years nearly 6.5 billion people will have died of "natural causes" or unnatural causes. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 330782
I jumped too fast writing my last message. Sorry about that. |
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Monadnock
User ID: 367973
2/7/2008 7:51 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer.
A good buddy of mine's Grandfather, smoked a cigar for probably 50yrs, he lived to be 96. Completely sane and mobile the whole time and died in his sleep.
Lovely.
That's the way I intend to go - a "George Burns" finish, with the recent memory of a fine cigar, well-smoked (if not, a hot young woman, well seen-to)!
we'll see if you are so chipper when you have COPD and are gasping for breath while on oxygen. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 330782
2/7/2008 7:57 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
life time smoker , I am 62 , never sick , ever
this is what is killing people , they tell you on one hand that its smoking . Its not
on the other hand they tell you what its really all about
[ link to www.cancer.gov]
U.S.National Instituts of Health
How Americans Were Exposed
During the Cold War, the United States developed and tested nuclear weapons in an effort to deter and to be fully prepared for nuclear attacks from other nations. Most of the above-ground U.S. nuclear tests were conducted in Nevada from 1951 to 1963. As a result of these tests, potentially health-harming radioactive materials were released into the atmosphere and produced fallout.
I-131 was among the radioactive materials released by the atomic bomb tests. It was carried thousands of miles away from the test areas on the winds. Because of wind and rainfall patterns, the distribution of fallout varied widely after each test. Therefore, although all areas of the U.S. received fallout from at least one nuclear weapons test, certain areas of North America received more fallout than others.
Scientists estimate that the larger amounts of I-131 fell over some parts of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana. But I-131 traveled to all states, particularly those in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Northeastern United States. Some of the I-131 collected on pastures and on grasses, where it was consumed by cows and goats.
When consumed by cows or goats, I-131 collects in the animals' milk. Eating beef from cows exposed to I-131 carried little risk. Much of the health risk associated with I-131 occurred among milk-drinkers—usually children. From what is known about thyroid cancer and radiation, scientists think that people who were children during the period of atomic bomb testing are at higher risk for developing thyroid cancer.
In addition to nuclear testing in Nevada, Americans were exposed to I-131 through:
Nuclear testing elsewhere in the world (mainly in the 1950s and 1960s)
Nuclear power plant accidents (such as the Chornobyl accident in 1986, also known as Chernobyl)
Releases from atomic weapons production plants (such as the Hanford facility in Washington state from 1944 to 1957)
Scientists are working to find out more about ways to measure and address potential I-131 exposure from other sources. Scientists are also working to find out more about other radioactive substances released by fallout and about their possible effects on human health.
The dirt is full of this shit , think about this the next time the wind blows up some dust .
or the next time you go to the beach and kick some sand around .
Its about the liability , easy to blame smoking
The Milk Connection
People younger than 15 at the time of above-ground testing (between 1951 and 1963) who drank milk, and who lived in the Mountain West, Midwestern, Eastern, and Northeastern United States, probably have a higher thyroid cancer risk from exposure to I-131 in fallout than other people. Their thyroid glands were still developing during the testing period. And they were more likely to have consumed milk contaminated with I-131. The amount of I-131 people absorbed depends on:
Their age during the testing period (between 1951 and 1963)
The amount and source of milk they drank in those years
Where they lived during the testing period
Age and residence during the Cold War years are usually known. But few people can recall the exact amounts or sources of the milk they drank as children. While the amount of milk consumed is important in determining exposure to I-131, it is also important to know the source of the milk. Fresh milk from backyard or farm cows and goats usually contained more I-131 than store-bought milk. This is because processing and shipping milk allowed more time for the I-131 to break down.
Left out of this list, Stronium 90 dusting from the Soviet 50Mt Hydrogren bomb. It was even found in the snow in the middle of the USA.
The purely and fully global effects of all the Hydrogen bombing above ground testing literally dusted the entire planet. Those born after 1945 will not live as long as their parents have.
During one of the 1955 tests the fallout cloud passed 4,000 feet above the place we are living in Cheynne Co. Nebraska. I just found this out about two months ago.
Everyone on Earth is a down-winder. And now we can add in all the DU dust that is blowing around the planet as well, which more being created every single day. |
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meroj
User ID: 310532
2/7/2008 7:59 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
...329 says,
"The only thing in Tobacco that kills is the added chemicals the corporations add!! Over 3 pages of A4 paper are needed to list them all."
You bring up good points about the jerks in the corporations. (...and, I hear ya' !) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 132975
2/7/2008 8:05 PM | | Re: UN: TOBACCO EPIDEMIC WILL KILL 1 BILLION THIS CENTURY! | Quote |
Did you realise that the majority of over 100 yr old people are or were smokers? Smoking doesnt cause cancer....bad genes do....that is why so many nonsmokers also get cancer.
A good buddy of mine's Grandfather, smoked a cigar for probably 50yrs, he lived to be 96. Completely sane and mobile the whole time and died in his sleep.
Lovely.
That's the way I intend to go - a "George Burns" finish, with the recent memory of a fine cigar, well-smoked (if not, a hot young woman, well seen-to)!
we'll see if you are so chipper when you have COPD and are gasping for breath while on oxygen.
Hopefully, I won't be doing anything like that.
I took full responsibility for my health many years ago, and began a regimen of daily vitamins, minerals, neutraceuticals and beer.
It's worked real good for the past thirty years, and I see no reason why it won't continue to work (unless Codex Alimentarius is brutally enforced, worldwide). |
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Redheaded Stepchild
User ID: 364244
2/7/2008 8:10 PM
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My late aunt was 90 when she passed. She smoked. She drank. She even danced a little jig. She used to tell us that people just didn't die of lung cancer when she was younger the way they do now. I asked her when she noticed the change. She said, "Oh, when I was about 30. I'd had two of the kids already."
That was about 1946 or so. She died in 2006.
The other thing she said was that there were very few people with "alzheimers" in her day.
Yeah, things changed.
"Until you are willing to organize your friends and neighbors and literally shut down cities - drive at 5mph through the streets of major cities on the freeway and stop commerce, refuse to show up for work, refuse to borrow and spend more than you make, show up in Washington DC with a million of your neighbors and literally shut down The Capitol you WILL be bent over the table on a daily basis." Karl Denninger
Don't blame me; I voted for Ron Paul.
Silence is consent. |
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