Click pic to read about a mother who lets her 3yr old smoke
Another reason not to smoke, as if you needed more.
The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
“Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates of respiratory infections,” notes Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland. The presumption has been that smoking renders people vulnerable to disease by impairing lung function or immunity. And it may well do both.
“But nobody talks about cigarettes as a source of those infections,” she says. Her new data now suggest that’s distinctly possible.
If these germs are alive, something she has not yet been confirmed, just handling cigarettes or putting an unlit one to the mouth could be enough to cause an infection.
#19 buddy
It’s also a very effective insecticide.
They go out of their way to avoid the real tobacco sales dampener. That it kills the sex drive, of most smokers. And can lead to impudence. But even the “concerned” health experts seems to avoid mentioning that. Cause they know this, more than lung cancer itself, would vastly diminish the use of tobacco. You might as well say that smoking, is like wearing a lead condom or chastity belt. And
I’m certain that it far easier to prove nicotine’s effect on sex drive, than it is to prove tobacco smoke causes cancer. But that’s the kind of study that’s been avoided like the plague, by the tobacco makers.
Smoking is still safer than getting shipped out to Iraq.
Sorry JJJman,
Burning tobacco of ANY kind makes the same carcinogens and toxins. Burning pure cellulose alone makes many of them.
Your body just didn’t evolve to breathe concentrated smoke from burning plant material.
Glenn,as for sex drive, check out the number of partners and frequency of sex for smokers vs non-smokers. I think you will be surprised. Sex, like smoking, is a behavior associated with the same personality types. Why do you think that Hollywood uses smoking when they want to flag someone as a “bad” girl or guy in a movie?
Sex performance drops in in later life, when cardiovascular disease shows up – a little earlier and worse for smokers.
How many packs a day does the kid smoke?
As a doc, I don’t want to encourage smoking but bad research doesn’t help.
Bacteria tend to need warmth and moisture to live. Tobacco doesn’t meet that requirement. Plus, of course, the combustion would probably kill off the few that remain. And, even if some get through, you need a dose sufficiently large to actually cause an infection. It is highly unlikely that a half dozen surviving campylobacter bugs are going to make you sick.
This looks like one for the Annals of Improbable Research. http://improbable.com/
Disgusting.
This is why [our] Western culture and Academia is the laughing stock of the planet. No such thing as “Science” in this country anymore.. Only Political Science.
The century long agenda to create the dumbest public of any country on the planet is now complete and being fed the fruits of this labour.
Over the next year+, -shocking crisis will be created to push the best golden apples born of our pathetic “world class” peer reviewed “science tree system down our collective throats in hopes to outpace the now almost daily reports of fraud this same “world class” science has been engaged in. -which of course, is being reported just about everywhere but here in the good ‘ol U.S. of A.
This is just a small “taste” of the panacea to come if we do not stop this, THIS YEAR. –and most important, to learn how to discern *fact from fiction*
Major policy decisions are about to be made with the “pinnacles” of our [fake, phony and fraudulent] pseudo science. -exampled above.
Learn the truth and put a stop to all the fraud NOW. -before we use up what’s left of the planet’s rare earth’s
building useless “clean” technology that is no cleaner that that which it replaces.
(Tesla re-discovered Clean (resonant) energy in the 1900′s. (this is ONLY form of *efficient* energy that deserves to be called “clean”) All the others move the “pollution” to a different place. manufacturing solar panels is NOT a clean process, -and windfarms for national grid purposes is just plain DUMB in light of age old jet streams and wind currents 1000′s of miles off track..
Ignorance is not bliss…it is death disguised as a gilded cage.
-s
pretty easy to see who the smokers are in these comments.
It’s fine, both my parents smoked — heavily — for decades. Both died of lung cancer.
Coincidence?
Interesting debate but facts are facts. Tobacco, regardless of the form, is an immunosuppressive. When CD-4/ T-cells and CD-8 cells are suppressed, your risk of infection from virus, bacteria or parasite will increase. Mitosis is more rapid, mitotic mutation is more likely. This is not debatable. Take your chances. It’s a game of Russian roulette. Maybe today will be the day that a cell is exposed to one of the >43 proven carcinogens from circulating tobacco, and divides wrong. You will know in a few years. Good luck with that.