Sunday, November 20, 2016

Thank you for SmOkInG.


The Electronic Cigarette (E-Cig) is by far one of the greatest inventions in recent history.  Millions of people across the world are DYING from a perfectly legal product that’s being sold at every street corner most commonly known as tobacco cigarettes.  *6 million deaths are caused by smoking in the United States every single year. (*source below)

As if you needed more proof, this is another blatant reminder that your government does NOT have your best interest at heart.  They keep this product perfectly legal directly alongside another well-known killer known as alcohol.  **This substance causes another 88,000 deaths per year in our great country, not to mention the many domestic violence incidents and overall addictive qualities it contains.  Another product that’s sold at every street corner, most people can relate to the problems it causes in homes across the country.

***Alcohol also leads to 1.5 million DUI’s in the U.S. per year.  The amount of money that is generated from these arrests is staggering.  I, alone, paid at least a thousand dollars for my first DUI to the ‘Feds’.  This is not including the money I lost from missing work and retaining a lawyer.  If you do some simple math ($1,000 x 1.5 million = $1,500,000,000), you can see that the government is making out pretty well on these arrests.  Is this STOPPING the drunk driving from happening?  Not one bit.  ****The number of DUI’s in 2014 was 1.1 million, meaning the number has gone up by 400,000 in the last 2 years.

They keep this product legal while they continue to fight to keep Marijuana illegal.  (A known CURE to many of life’s problems, a known alternative (Hemp) to our reliance on plastic (which pollutes the planet like no other) and an overall ‘peaceful’ narcotic with the opposite of violence as a side effect.)  This illegal product has led to ZERO known deaths, unlike alcohol and cigarettes, which have led to COUNTLESS deaths and injury.  

PROOF, they don’t have your best interest at heart like they advertise to.
Here’s the topper; The GOVERNMENT, with your ‘best interest at heart’, is involved in a fight with the makers and sellers of electronic cigarettes (The life-SAVING product) that involves the Feds imposing a FORTY PERCENT tax increase on Electronic Cigarettes.  This is an obvious attempt to put the stores out of business in order to keep the world smoking. 

I started using the electronic cigarette about 2 years ago.  I could literally feel the difference in my overall health within 3 days. (Mostly my breathing.  Which, ya’ know, kind of important, don’t ya’ think?)  These days, I use the vape pen throughout the week.  There is no smell attached to the smoke and it can be used inside the house with no lingering leftover stench involved.

I can smoke whenever and wherever I want, while a typical cigarette smoker usually has to plan out their smoke break around certain obstacles.  One of my personal favorite benefits of the e-cig is being able to take a quick puff here and there as opposed to feeling the need to finish an entire cigarette every time you light one. 
I am an advocate of this product and receive no benefit from an increase in its sales.  I am a fan of your health and well-being.  I’d love you to STOP SMOKING.  

Lung cancer is known as one of THEE most difficult, disgusting and horrible ways to die.  Do it for your kids.  Do it for your family.  Do it for the guy next to you that hates the way you smell.  Do it for you wife (she probably hates kissing you but doesn’t have the heart to tell you.)  Do it because you probably started smoking at a young age and were never told of the negative side effects.  In other words, you were LIED to. 

One piece of advice if you are going to try vaping as opposed to smoking:  It may take you a couple dollars and a few trips to the store to find the right e-cig for you.  Most people, when they first buy a vape pen, don’t want to spend a ton of money.  So, they buy a cheap version just to see what it’s like.  Well, these cheap knockoffs turn them completely off from the idea itself.  It’s usually not until the second time the smoker buys a pen that they find the right one.  There are many different options and flavors. 

Don’t fear change!  Don’t die from lung cancer because you went around saying to everyone, “Those ‘vape dudes’ look like douchebags!”  The employees of a typical vape shop are usually VERY helpful and will be VERY happy to help you find the correct module.  (You usually receive a discount if you turn in your ‘last pack’ of cigarettes.) 

Lastly, I can guarantee you all that there are many more addictive ingredients inside of a typical tobacco cigarette.  I get nicotine when I use my vape, plenty of it.  But, there are STILL some lingering addictive side effects that cause me to feign and urge towards a Marlboro Light.  I LOVE smoking cigarettes.  If you decide to quit and move on to the electric version, trust me when I tell you that you can still go back and buy a pack of smokes here and there on the weekends.  

Do yourself a favor and watch the movie, “Thank you for Smoking”.  The writer is a friend of a friend and the film does a great job in showing the dark side of the Liquor Control Board (LCB) and the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms organization (ATF).  The main character of the movie is the spokesperson for the ATF whose job is to basically talk out of his ass and get people to believe that what they are doing is perfectly okay.

Here is a link to the trailer.  The movie is very well made and worth the watch.


Please stop blindly following along with this group of nobodies known as your government.  Most of the members of the senate and congress were voted in because people did NOT research their options or simply did not HAVE any viable options.  All that talk about who to vote for in the presidential race, did anyone even care to research who they were voting for when it came to the OTHER available open political seats?

SOURCES

*http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/

**https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-facts-and-statistics

***https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=amount%20of%20duis%20per%20year

****http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/about/drunk-driving-statistics.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

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