Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After three decades, the AMA finally admits smoking is harmful
After the 1964 Surgeon General's landmark report on the dangers of cigarettes, the CTR stepped up its work, providing materials to defend the tobacco industry against litigation. The same year -- three decades after medical research demonstrated the dangers of cigarettes -- the American Medical Association finally issued statement on smoking, calling it "a serious health hazard. |
| The same year, Chesterfield began running ads in the New York State Journal of Medicine, with the claim that its cigarettes were "Just as pure as the water you drink... and practically untouched by human hands."
In medical journals and in the popular media, one of the most infamous cigarette advertising slogans was associated with the Camel brand: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." The campaign began in 1946 and ran for eight years in magazines and on the radio. |
| By sponsoring "independent" scientific research, the TIRC attempted to keep alive a debate about whether or not cigarettes were harmful.
The industry announced the formation of the TIRC in an advertisement that appeared in The New York Times and 447 other newspapers reaching more than 43 million Americans. The advertisement, titled "A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers," read:
"RECENT REPORTS on experiments with mice have given wide publicity to a theory that cigarette smoking is in some way linked with lung cancer in human beings. |
| The same year -- three decades after medical research demonstrated the dangers of cigarettes -- the American Medical Association finally issued statement on smoking, calling it "a serious health hazard." It was not until 1998 that the CTR was shut down -- and only after the tobacco industry lost a major court case brought forward by states across the country.
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| In my opinion, the AMA is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans -- not just from pushing cigarettes but also for continuing to push dangerous pharmaceuticals while discrediting nearly everything in natural medicine or alternative medicine. The AMA is a truly evil organization, in my opinion, that I believe has directly and knowingly contributed to the suffering and death of Americans for more than 75 years. Read my story, What the AMA hopes you never learn about its true history to learn more. |
| The AMA isn't pushing cigarettes anymore, but it's still pushing deadly pharmaceuticals that will one day be regarded as just as senseless as smoking. Let's face it: pharmaceutical medicine is hopelessly outdated, ineffective and dangerous. Nobody intelligent today actually believes that pharmaceuticals help people heal. In fact, the more drugs people take, the worse their health becomes! Modern medicine is actually harmful to patients!
Medical science is slow to change, and slow to give up its closely-guarded (false) beliefs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Despite critics' concerns, those organizations involved in the new pink ribbon cigarettes believe the product will be a huge market success. Focus group have proven that the pink ribbon symbol appeals to many woman who blindly buy anything carrying the symbol, regardless of the health consequences experienced from using such products. "When women see pink, they forget how to think," reported one researcher who wishes to remain anonymous. "They buy anything with a pink ribbon on it, even though our research shows that 99. |
| Non-profit cancer groups should be ashamed of themselves for associating their name, and their symbols, with any product that promotes cancer, even beyond cigarettes," Adams said.
Mike Adams is the author of the popular Breast Cancer Deception report making the rounds on the internet. It exposes what Adams calls the lies, corruption and consumer exploitation of the breast cancer industry. The report is available at no charge online at: http://www.newstarget.com/Report_Breast_Cancer_Deception_0.html
Most doctors now agree that the inhaling of carcinogens in tobacco smoke is the No. |
| Wheezie Foundation proclaimed that buying these pink ribbon cigarettes is like "investing in your own future," since funds from the sales will be used to find a cure for the disease caused by the product itself. A new event called, "Smoke for the cure" is planned for next year as a way to increase product sales and raise more money for breast cancer research.
Disclaimer: This article is a parody of pink ribbon promotions used to hype consumer products. |
| The pink ribbon cigarettes join numerous other cancer-causing products in the marketplace already sporting pink ribbon symbols, including batteries made with toxic heavy metals and popular skin care products laced with cancer-causing petrochemicals. Pink ribbons are also found on cancer-promoting nail polish and cosmetics containing parabens and other chemicals. Pink ribbon SlimSmokes will be sold at selected retailers, including Bad Breath and Beyond, a popular retailer of toxic home care products for consumers. |
| Shareholders of a top chemotherapy drug producer, ConPfuzer, hailed the new product as a "milestone success for its shareholders and stakeholders," claiming the new cigarettes would simultaneously appeal to women while greatly increasing the demand for chemotherapy treatments of breast cancer tumors.
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| Not everyone is convinced that raising money for breast cancer research by selling cigarettes to women is a great idea. Consumer health advocate and cancer industry critic Mike Adams (aka "The Health Ranger") questioned the sanity of the plan, saying that, "Pink ribbons have become corporate graffiti. They're used to exploit consumers' emotional associations for the purpose of selling more products that will actually harm them. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 It's easy to get children to smoke cigarettes because the taste approaches sweetness. Sugar is one of many components used to make cigarettes more candylike. Unfortunately, the sweet taste helps hook some 3,000 to 5,000 kids a day. Ninety percent of smokers begin before age 20," he claims. "The average onset of cigarette smoking in the United States is 12 to 13 years old, and even younger overseas."
Kids are bombarded with ads for junk foods. There's no restraint from the food companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The American Medical Association, by the way, used to actually run ads for cigarettes in its flagship medical journal, JAMA. Doctors can always be bought off and made to promote whatever poison is making the most money this decade (these people have no shame). In the 1950's, it was cigarettes. Today, it's pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy. Different drugs, same scam. But money was always -- and IS always -- the bottom line for conventional medicine. Today, doctors promote chemotherapy, which is far more toxic than smoking! |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Other things that interfere with sleep are cigarettes, alcohol, and of course caffeine. A cigarette is a nonpharmacological way of injecting nicotine into your body. Nicotine is a stimulant, and its use can make falling asleep harder for smokers than for nonsmokers. You shouldn't smoke at all, of course, but if you do, make a point of putting your cigarettes away after 7 p.m. The story is the same for alcohol. Alcohol is a sedating drug. Using it will ordinarily put you to sleep; but if you use too much, your sleep will be disturbed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This might be hard for you to believe, but it wasn't too long ago that doctors routinely recommended smoking cigarettes, too. The Journal of the American Medical Association, in fact, ran numerous ads promoting Camels as "recommended by more doctors than any other cigarette!" Doctors talked up the "benefits" of smoking cigarettes, urging people to start smoking in order to improve brain function or even -- get this -- make their teeth stronger! |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Just work out how much you used to spend on cigarettes each week (most people are horrified when they do). How much is that a year? That would pay for a terrific holiday, even a new car over a couple of years. Save the money you used to spend on cigarettes and give yourself a special treat. At least once a week reward yourself by buying or doing something that makes you feel good.
Hypnotherapy and acupuncture are extremely successful treatments for cigarette addictions. Try auto-suggestion to reinforce your decision and help you overcome the subconscious desire to smoke. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And Kraft Foods, of course, is the company that manufactures some of the most popular food products -- such as Oreo cookies and Velveeta cheese food -- that, like cigarettes, are manufactured with ingredients now well known to be associated with various health problems in humans.
For example, Oreo cookies are made with hydrogenated oils. These hydrogenated oils contained trans fatty acids that are now well known to contribute to cardiovascular disease. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Not only does exercise reduce cravings for cigarettes, but it seems to dramatically improve endurance and fitness, decreases body fat stores, and decrease insulin resistance.
A prospective study of Japanese men concluded that age of smoking initiation and number of cigarettes smoked were major risk factors for developing diabetes.78 Similarly, data from the U.S. Cancer Prevention Study found that as smoking increased so the rate of diabetes increased for both men and women. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He compensates survivors with cigars and cigarettes. During the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors cite this study to justify their own medical experiments (Greger, Sharav).
(1911)
Dr. Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research publishes data on injecting an inactive syphilis preparation into the skin of 146 hospital patients and normal children in an attempt to develop a skin test for syphilis. Later, in 1913, several of these children's parents sue Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If I were in charge around here, I would immediately ban all advertising of junk foods, sodas, snack foods, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals and other harmful substances. It's the only sane thing to do if we care about the future of our children. Of course, such advertising bans will never actually take place because corporations run the government. See my CounterThink Cartoon, Government of the People for a humorous depiction of this current state of affairs.
And as far as Pepsi's water brand goes, I think it should be renamed to AquaFib. |
Michael Pollan
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 American gas stations now make more money selling food (and cigarettes) than gasoline, but consider what kind of food this is: except perhaps for the milk and water, it's all highly processed nonperishable snack foods and extravagantly sweetened soft drinks in hefty twenty-ounce bottles. Gas stations have become processed-corn stations: ethanol outside for your car and high-fructose corn syrup inside for you.
« TRY NOT TO EAT ALONE. Americans are increasingly eating in solitude. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 The reason was that the smokers of kretek cigarettes (made from 60% tobacco and 40% cloves) preferred Zanzibar cloves. The use of cloves in
Indonesia (for kretek cigarettes) is currently estimated to be around 100 000 tons. Parts used Unopened, dried flower buds. Cultivation & harvesting Trees are grown from seeds (or seedlings gathered in existing plantations). Commercial harvesting of the clusters of flower buds (by hand-picking) starts after about six to ten years. Trees remain productive for up to 60 years. The buds are spread out in the sun to dry. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 SPF rating is embarrassingly low and it encourages users to get a deep tan, which is akin to an oncologist sending a patient off with a carton of cigarettes.
© Sun Care Spray High Protection SPF 15, Oil-Free ($27.50for 5-3 ounces) includes avobenzone for sufficient UVA protection, but the formula is alcohol-based and contains lots of fragrance, a combination that's just too troublesome for skin.
© Sunscreen Cooling Gel Rapid Tanning SPF 8 ($34 for 6. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 For example, her father chewed gum, a habit she disliked, but rather than feeling pleasure that he was enjoying something he liked or even being gracious enough to ignore his habit, she tried to "get even" by smoking cigarettes in his presence despite his sinus problems. "We finally compromised. He promised he would not chew gum in my presence, a noise that made me want to rip out my hair, if I would not smoke cigarettes in his."'138
Conflict with her mother was also common. "Mother and I fought some vicious verbal battles. . . . |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Journal, the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the pro-drug psychiatric arm of the American Medical Association, a pill-pushing organization tarnished by a history of conspiracy against alternative medicine and the promotion of toxic substances like cigarettes with full-page ads in its flagship publication, JAMA.
From the outset, the fact that this study appears in a pro-drug, pro-psychiatry journal should bring pause to any scientific-minded person. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In the 1950's, it was cigarettes. Today, it's pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy. Different drugs, same scam. But money was always -- and IS always -- the bottom line for conventional medicine. Today, doctors promote chemotherapy, which is far more toxic than smoking!
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is the same with drinking and cigarettes. You do not have money to pay the rent and do other things, but you have money for those habits that you have. That is conditioned response.
That is the robotic part of us as humans and animals that we can do something about, but it takes work. It takes a conscious effort to understand what it is that you are doing every moment. Most people have almost no sense of that. Again, that is why we are here. We are here to change that consciousness, at least to the best of our abilities. Not only just talk about it, but also live our lives that way. |
David Wolfe
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 Peer Pressure
Imagine if everybody smoked cigarettes and one day someone decided to stop. Imagine also, that as soon as the withdrawal symptoms began all the cigarette experts would get together and accost and attack anyone who did not smoke cigarettes for being nicotine deficient
You are going to face peer pressure; it is part of the process. All great endeavors have their challenges, or they wouldn't be great.
When people offer you toxic food, they may be projecting upon you their own lack of information or fears. Let them know why you are making other choices. |
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