And then read “In Defense of Smoking”. You are twisting my words - I did not claim smoking was not harmful. It is harmful; I don’t believe anyone denies that, except out of a contrarian instinct towards the “healthfulness”/PC-police (especially after Michelle Obama’s banning of any non-diet soda or sports drink in New York over 16 fl oz) that you’re acting towards this particular subject: I merely denied that it was as eminently and deathly dangerous as the American government statistics claim, which give rise to such ludicrous propositions such as the “one cigarette can cause cancer ten years down the line”. They are dangerous: this is known, and it is not doubted. That they are the most extremely, dangerously toxic substance known to man, as portrayed in many of the warped statistics issued by the government. Arguments - based on evidence - actually can be made that smoking is harmless. It’s not harmless: but statistics can be warped to serve any agenda.
Japan, as I mentioned, has both the highest rates of smoking and the greatest longevity in the developed world. From what I understand, American cigarettes are especially unhealthy, because the fertilizer (or some other chemical used in the process of making the **** they put in cigarettes and claim is “tobacco”) used to grow them contains trace amounts of polonium-232, a radioactive element that emits alpha waves. Alpha radiation is blocked completely by even a sheet of Bible paper; but, there is no Bible paper between one’s lungs and inhaled cigarette smoke, so American cigarettes irradiate one’s lungs with alpha radiation very slowly over time. I believe this is not a problem with Japanese, Russian, Indian, Turkish, etc. tobacco, nor do I believe it is a problem in pipe tobacco or cigar tobacco. However, I may be wrong on the above paragraph, except for the statement about Japan’s longevity and rates of smoking, which are definitely such (and there’s a sample of a hundred million people for you, to show it’s not a once-off like George Burns).
Smoking is bad for you. It’s actually pretty bad for you, especially with American cigarettes. It’s just not as bad for you as it’s made out to be by the statistics of the United States Government branch that issues such statistics.
Don’t be surprised, all governments warp all statistics, and America warps them far less than most governments.
Look at “global warming” statistics [invented by artificially reducing the temperature of the past on charts - see the Soon and Baliunas controversy], all sorts of disease-related statistics, smoking statistics, drug abuse statistics [supposedly 15% of Americans are alcoholics], religion statistics, pain statistics [supposedly 117 million Americans live with chronic pain], economic statistics, unemployment statistics - all are incredibly warped. And they don’t even collect statistics on other mental illnesses, once everything sexual became “healthy” in 1968.
If those statistics were right, there would have to be a hemisphere of the world that was at the auto-ignition point, filled with half a billion morbidly obese atheist virgins and Muslims, each one suffering from at least diabetes, autism, ADHD, and bipolar disorder, all drunkards in severe chronic pain with a >50% rate of drug abuse and zero per cent unemployment to make up for the actuality of the situation in the rest of the world.
As far as warped economic statistics, this has been proved: Google “shadow government statistics” (wherein the man illustrates that the actual unemployment rate is upwards of 20%, which accords with what I’ve actually seen, and not the artificially deflated 8.2% that the government has officially stated: deflated by removing the underemployed, those who have been out of work so long they no longer receive unemployment, the disabled, those who do not seek work at all, etc. etc.).
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