Agree completely, my points are purely about perceptions and not having your business or our pleasure messed about with - It seems tobacco stands on a knife edge at the moment.
On a lighter note… Just thinking about ‘snorting’ Rooster through a rolled up dollar bill makes my head hurt and my eyes water!
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooggggghhhhhhhhhhh!..dont.
@bakdoor, me too lol. @Juxta and everyone else really, I don’t think that when they say they’re targeting younger people that they’re talking about people under 18, i’m assuming they’re talking more 18-25 or somewhere around there.
Yes me too 18-25 = kids!
Tobacco truly is on a knife edge but diseases like Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are massively on the increase and goverments do not want to spend huge amounts of money on treating them. Most things in life are cyclical what was bad 20 years ago is good for you today and vice versa clearly the cheapest and perhaps safest solution is prevention via snuff. I saw a news report recently highlighting these illnesses in the under 50’s that was really disturbing. My prediction is that we are on the crest of a wave and that snuff will gain popularity to such an extent over the next 10 years that we all end up paying a lot more for it.
If the SCHIP bill that is to be voted on this week passes, you will be paying a LOT more and quite soon. Tobacco tax of 156 percent!!! Tom
This is very interesting. I will not give up nicotine for medical reasons. I have switched to snus, and soon will add snuff to my mix. Up until the tobacco settlement, no serious scientist would study nicotine, it was just too politically charged. But after the settlement, it seemed to lift the self imposed restrictions on nicotine study. One of the first was on teenagers with ADHD. Scientists had noticed that about 73% of teenagers with ADHD, that compared to 23% in the general population. Scientists had assumed there was something about ADHD that made the teenagers smoke, but as they looked at the data, they realized it might be something in the nicotine. Followup studies have since proven that nicotine is about as effective as Ritalin in treating ADHD. I know, in my own case, it makes a HUGE difference. As a meth head from the late 8-'s, I simply won’t use amphetamines to treat my ADHD, so I keep using nicotine. http://www.trdrp.org/research/PageGrant.asp?grant\_id=3960 http://www.uvm.edu/~psych/news/archive/Potter\_nicotine.pdf http://health.msn.com/health-topics/adhd/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100144050 http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/200.html
Definatly helps keep me from killing people. I’am Bipolar and I do not need no A.M.A. (american Magicians assosiation)to tell me that nicotine keeps my swings on a more even keel. In fact all I need is to see what happens when I have quit for a long time.