Smoking ( Archived) (32)

Sorry Scubadiva lives where confiscatory taxation makes the supposedly less toxic smokes so expensive. But it seems true that commercial popular brands do contain much else than tobacco, which as a pure plant product, doesn't seem to have much that's exceptionally toxic when ingested or smoked. Of course, depending on how the leaves are cultivated, there could be all sorts of agricultural chemicals attached, even before things are added at the cigarette factories. At our local food coop we sell a brand that is supposed to be organic, but there's a movement to take these off the inventory list, principally by a small group of unhappy people with too much time on their hands. Of course, who knows how chemically free products listed as "organic" really are? Anyway, anyone who still smokes cigarettes of any sort would be well advised to seriously consider trying to quit. And the evidence seems to supports repeated tries at giving up the addiction-as the number of tries increases, so climbs the success rate. Aaltarboy.

hi ooby no need to apologize you hit it right on i have also lost family to cigarettes ive been trying to quit my self its very hard to do i am sitting hear now with a cigarette in frount of me and i hate it so iam going to be reading your post this week and think about how i can get thease darn things off my back once and for all thanks for your commit

I smoked ronhill for 27 years and thankfully I quit almost a year ago and I feel a lot better