The Truth About Tobacco

Does tobacco CAUSE harm to health or PREVENT it?

Date Created: 2023, July 1

Keywords: tobacco, smoking, nicotine, vape, vaping, carbon, prevent, medicine

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Psst... special note from a reader at the end of this article. Is a fair summary of what the reader believes that I feel is important to include...

We have been told all our lives how much harm tobacco products do to human health. Cancers, infertility, low birth weight, miscarriage, diabetes, heart disease, and so on blamed on exposure to tobacco products for around 60 years. Rabid multi-billion dollar anti-smoking and anti-vaping campaigns and extreme restrictions on smoking anywhere near a public space is claimed to be for consumer protection. However, as smoking becomes obsolete, the medical conditions claimed to be caused by tobacco products continue to skyrocket. Um, how does that make any sense?

Maybe, just maybe, tobacco products prevent or reduce symptoms of medical conditions that were actually caused by something else? Nah...

But let's look anyway ;o)

Prior to being villainized, tobacco had been a highly useful, um, medicine, effectively treating many maladies. It was noted throughout literature that regular smokers did not experience symptoms during the plagues of the bubonic plague outbreaks of the15th century in the United Kingdom. Other maladies consistently treated with tobacco included: respiratory ailments, blood problems, vascular issues, mental health afflictions, wound healing, skin cancer cure, digestive disorders and gout.

The battle between tobacco being a wondrous miracle cure for many maladies and tobacco causing horrible and numerous attacks on health waged for around 300 years. Recreational use of tobacco in many forms was too popular to try to control. Remedies using the tobacco plant were developed for the pharmaceutical industry. Kinda hard to sell products to treat maladies when people can smoke one whenever they want, eh?

Consistent with the bubonic plague, smokers have the lowest risk of COVID. Tobacco provides the main ingredient for COVID vaccines: nicotine. Also, nicotine may prove to be the best option for treatment of COVID since it prevents the overproduction of inflammatory cytokines, a main cause of death for those with severe COVID.

Currently, nicotine is being called a 'Wonder Drug'. New nicotine-based drugs are already on the market with more in development. Nicotine-based drugs health issues such as ulcerative colitis, immune disorders and promoting growth of new blood vessels. Other ailments effectively treated with nicotine include numerous neurological disorders such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, reduce aggression, Tourette’s, cognitive impairment and weight control.

Niacin, which is nicotinic acid which is simply chemically extracted nicotine, has been used to treat cardiovascular disease for over 50 years. It was the first drug to show reduction in mortality in patients with previous myocardial infarction. It seems as though not only does nicotine NOT cause heart damage, it provides treatment for damaged hearts. Imagine that. Don't smoke it, pop a few hundred dollar pills...

The anti-inflammatory properties of nicotine make it useful for treating inflammation-related disorders such as myocarditis, arthritis and sepsis, as well as muscle, oral and skin inflammation. It seems more and more like the reason to ban nicotine is to sell drugs.

Oh, about all the raving and supplements and fortification with niacin. Niacin is a tobacco-free new name for nicotanic acid, which is 'nicotine', derived from tobacco.

Over the course of 30 years, I have studied numerous medical conditions with relation to harms/deaths caused by exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. In all these years, I am not seeing tobacco/nicotine used to cause ANY malady in lab animals to develop treatments for humans. The only thing tobacco and derivatives of tobacco are used for is to prevent and/or treat maladies caused by exposure to toxins. Oh, and prescription nicotine-based products for smoking cessation ;o)

It is very interesting that tobacco/nicotine has been used for hundreds of years to treat the same health conditions drugs and supplements made from tobacco/nicotine are used to treat today.

Maybe instead of hooking COVID victims up to yards of plastic, phthalate-leaching ventilator tubing, they would have been better off taking them out behind the dumpster for a smoke?

Yup, we were all conned again.

I do not promote smoking, vaping or supplements to prevent and/or treat harmful effects or reduced symptoms from exposure to known poisons...

...maybe get rid of the poisons instead?

COMMENT FROM READER:
"I have believed for years that tobacco is an herb.. native Americans treated and used it in respectful and payerful ways. I think it is the chemical treatments during growth and processing that are the causes of cancers. Like anything else... used in moderation and grown organically... it won't hurt anyone."


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