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=== 70% of smokers want to quit === | === 70% of smokers want to quit === | ||
− | Providing their surveys can even be trusted for their integrity, it is obvious that the anti-tobacco industry is confusing people feeling that they should quit because of social pressure and fear for their health, with people '' wanting'' to quit | + | Providing their surveys can even be trusted for their integrity, it is obvious that the anti-tobacco industry is confusing people feeling that they should quit because of social pressure and fear for their health, with people '' wanting'' to quit. Stop the de-normalization process and the outrageously exaggerated scare tactics , bring back some measure and conduct the same surveys all over and let's see how many smokers really want to quit. And no, as much as they want to blame the addictive properties of tobacco for people not giving up , smoking is as pleasurable to a smoker as eating candy is pleasurable to an obese person. Both feel that they shouldn't be doing it because this is what they have been conditioned to believe, but in no way does this make it less pleasurable. |
After decades of incessant inflammatory propaganda and de-normalization techniques supported and even encouraged by governments ( see [http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/17/1/25 Markers of the denormalisation of smoking and the tobacco industry] ) portraying | After decades of incessant inflammatory propaganda and de-normalization techniques supported and even encouraged by governments ( see [http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/17/1/25 Markers of the denormalisation of smoking and the tobacco industry] ) portraying | ||
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Is it any wonder many smokers feel they should quit? Many pretend to ''want'' to quit simply to avoid lectures, harassment and even outright bullying from the ''authorities'' and their peers. | Is it any wonder many smokers feel they should quit? Many pretend to ''want'' to quit simply to avoid lectures, harassment and even outright bullying from the ''authorities'' and their peers. | ||
− | Smokers represent at least one quarter of the adult world population. If 70% of those remaining smokers truly '' wanted'' to stop smoking not only most of them would put the necessary effort to accomplish it like millions have done it ''cold turkey'' before them, but it is reasonable to believe that there would be more grassroots political pressure from them for governments to make it as difficult, inconvenient, costly and even illegal to smoke. There isn't, or at least there aren't any loud or publicized organized groups of smokers pushing for such measures. The only pressure governments are getting | + | Smokers represent at least one quarter of the adult world population. If 70% of those remaining smokers truly '' wanted'' to stop smoking not only most of them would put the necessary effort to accomplish it like millions have done it ''cold turkey'' before them, but it is reasonable to believe that there would be more grassroots political pressure from them for governments to make it as difficult, inconvenient, costly and even illegal to smoke. There isn't, or at least there aren't any loud or publicized organized groups of smokers pushing for such measures. The only pressure governments are getting are from the professional anti-smokers, from corporate vested interests – mainly the pharmaceutical industry – and from some ordinary citizens emotional over having lost someone to a disease suspected to have been caused by smoking. |
=== The Environmental Protection Agency has identified secondhand smoke as a Class A carcinogen. === | === The Environmental Protection Agency has identified secondhand smoke as a Class A carcinogen. === |