Obesity Rate Twice as High Among Nonsmokers

[Vocalek]

Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Obesity rate is twice as high amongst nonsmokers

The second point to consider is that since nicotine is an aid to maintaining a healthy weight, why are alleged health campaigners banning products like snus and e-cigarettes which not only get people off cigarettes but could control their weight as well? If smoking and obesity really are the two greatest public health threats of our time, doesn't that make ultra-low risk nicotine products the penicillin of the age?

 

[jj2]

Well no one said we could count on the powers-that-want-to-control-all to have common sense.

 

[DaveP]

Someone once said, "A cigarette is like the exclamation point at the end of a meal." It signifies the end of a meal like the period at the end of a sentence. I can see how the brain would subconsciously accept the fact the the meal is over once you smoke. Without a cigarette or a PV vape, the sentence goes on forever.

 

[rothenbj]

I believe I made the comparison of the rise in obesity as the smoking rates subsided quite a while ago. Some of the more overweight people I know gained a lot of weight after abandoning tobacco. They also tend to be the more vocal anti-smokers between bites.

 

[Vocalek]

Am not!!

 

[RippleInStillWater]

They have more cash for food..........

 

[DaveP]

They have more cash for food..........

Now, that's a valid point! At $40 a carton, you can eat well at least once a week. Two ex-smokers in a house and you can go out on Saturday night and eat the expensive steak at Longhorn on what you don't spend on cigs.

 

[rothenbj]

I believe I made the comparison of the rise in obesity as the smoking rates subsided quite a while ago. Some of the more overweight people I know gained a lot of weight after abandoning tobacco. They also tend to be the more vocal anti-smokers between bites.

Let me restate my last sentence-

"They also tend to be obnoxious anti-smokers between bites."

Besides EK, you didn't give up tobacco since the FDA has reluctantly agreed to regulate PVs as tobacco products and you still can't get a job where tobacco use is banned. Of course NRT users AND users of non-tobacco/non-pharma products like Stonewall BDLs can't get those jobs either.

Such a confusing world we currently live in. This type logic may drive more to just giving up and getting a script for Chantix and ending it all.

 

[Religion]

Sad/Funny that you tied Chantix and "ending it all" together.

 

[Vap0rJay]

Now, that's a valid point! At $40 a carton, you can eat well at least once a week. Two ex-smokers in a house and you can go out on Saturday night and eat the expensive steak at Longhorn on what you don't spend on cigs.

$40? Damn thats cheap. MD you be lookin at $65-70 easy.

 

[DaveP]

$40? Damn thats cheap. MD you be lookin at $65-70 easy.

In GA, Pall Malls (unfiltered and regular, light, and ultra light filters) sell for around $28 a carton. Premium brands such as Marlboro go for about $42 a carton. 10 years ago, I was buying Marlboro for $12.99.

There are some scalpers out there, but the convenience stores discount them to draw gas customers. I've bought Pall Malls for as low as $26.49 at Murphy outside Walmart lately.