On the first one I bought was one of those pictures that are supposed to terrify us into stopping smoking. This one shows a pair of eighty-year-old hands with the slogan 'Smoking causes ageing of the skin'.
Interesting. I was under the impression that ageing was the main cause of ageing of the skin. A close look at that photo reveals, as with the teeth photo, no evidence at all of nicotine staining. And yet we are to believe that these old hands belong to someone relatively young, who has smoked so much their fingers have shrivelled. My hands don't look like that, even though there are yellow patches where I hold my roll-up, and I'm not young. The pictured hands are those of someone old, with nothing to demonstrate any smoking effect at all.
It's far too easy to debunk these photos. It's as if they're not really trying. Almost as if they don't want us to stop paying all that terrible tax. Almost as if ASH have realised that, should we all give up smoking, they'd have nobody left to torment and they'd all be out of a job.
Oh, but that couldn't be true, could it?
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ASH can't push too hard, as like you say, their income from the Government requires there to be smokers to harass.
They just push enough to provide a steady stream of quitters for their nicotine-peddling pharma friends. If everyone gave up tomorrow, ASH would die and so would the entire NRT industry.
They're not daft, they certainly don't want THAT.
DaveA
Cheaper ciggies in Brussels though Leg-Iron - It would be great if you could make it.
http://www.antiprohibition.org/ticap_pag
1st World Conference Against Prohibition: "Smoking Bans and Lies"
Brussels, at the European Parliament Building, 27/28 January, 2009
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That photo would be better used in a campaign for NHS dentistry. We used to have those, in my youth. Now you have to fork out a fortune if your teeth hurt or get a good set of pliers and a bottle of whisky.
Pathetic.
Notice the steady drip feed of propagabda that smokers are the worst litterers? Using up scarce council resources to clean up our filth ? A Telegraph article the other day ran a headline blaming Macdonalds for 30% of all take-away food wrapping litter.
Included in the article was the blithe statement that food packaging litter came second only to cigarette butts.
Really, does the evidence of my eyes on the High St. early on a Sunday morning support that ? I think not.
They have a smoker's lung neatly laid out on a slab next to a healthy one. Okay, fine so far... but then you begin to wonder what killed the former owner of the healthy lungs?
Speaking of cheap cigarettes...
In Malaysia, a packet of 20 Marlboro Red costs just 50p (or they did before Brown's devaluation of the Pound). And, they are twice as strong too. 20mg Tar / 1.5mg Nicotine, as opposed to 10mg Tar / 0.8mg Nicotine for the European restricted safer alternative.
I'm sure most people aren't aware how weakened our cigarettes have become over the years? Fair enough, its supposed to be a health thing but crikey, we pay enough and we end up with a watered down product.
Cut down the strength, keep the price the same, and watch the profits rise.
A common idea, amongst smokers and non-smokers alike, is that smoking causes tar deposits in the lungs. These tar deposits supposedly build up and cause the lungs to turn black, and it is believed that these tars lead to lung cancer,[1] and Cancer Research UK says of tar “a sticky black residue made up of thousands of chemicals that stays in the smoker’s lungs and causes cancer.” However, it does not take much logical thought, and science, to realise this not only isn’t true, but can’t be true. The idea that smoking causes black lungs is no more than a myth, and the evidence for this is plentiful.