another little helpful qoute or story...
John Quincy Adams on Smoking
In 1845, the sixth US President, John Quincy Adams, wrote a letter to Rev. Samuel Cox in Brooklyn, who was in the process of writing a book about tobacco and smoking. Adams told Cox that when he was a young man, he had been addicted to both smoking and chewing tobacco. When he decided to quit it took him three months.
He wrote:
'I have often wished that every individual afflicted with this artificial passion could force it upon himself to try but for three months the experiment which I made, sure that it would turn every acre of tobacco land into a wheat field, and add five years to the average of human life'.
wow I did not know that people were thinking that way that long ago...smart man..
fdoyle it is incredible, I guess the only reasons they haven't outlawed it is because governments make too much money off its sales. I'm with you. And as for dr.feelgood I have attached what was in tobacco way back when....so, even way back it was no good for us, its just now its more refined with those nice little additives that keep us puffing away and keep tobacco companies rich and governments in surplus, so I can see why it has to do with todays' smoking habit
CHAPTER I.
THE NATURE OF TOBACCO.
IN prosecuting this subject, we will attend first to the inquiry, What is Tobacco? It is, says the Encyclopedia Americana, "a nauseous and poisonous weed, of an acrid taste and disagreeable odor; in short, whose only properties are deleterious." Dr. [Joseph] Bigelow [1787-1879], in his American Medical Botany [Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States: Containing their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, with Coloured Engravings (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817, 1820)] says, "In its external and sensible properties there is no plant which has less to recommend it than the common tobacco; a small quantity taken into the stomach excites violent vomiting, attended with other alarming symptoms."
In an elaborate [1809] chemical analysis of Tobacco, published by M. [Louis Nicolas] Vauquelin [1763-1829] in the Annales de Chimie [More], we have the following results.
"The broad-leaved tobacco furnishes from its juices the following constituents.
# 1. A large quantity of animal mat-
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ter, of an albuminous nature.
* 2. Malate of lime with an excess of acid.
* 3. Acetic acid.
* 4. Nitrate and muriate of potash in observable quantities.
* 5. A red matter soluble in alcohol and water, which swells and boils in the fire, its nature undetermined.
* 6. Muriate of ammonia.
* 7. A peculiar acrid, volatile, colorless substance, soluble in water and alcohol, and which appears different from any thing known in the vegetable kingdom. It is this principle which gives to prepared tobacco its peculiar character, and it is perhaps not to be found in any other species of plant. Its medicinal activity is supposed to reside in this volatile portion, which is the "essential oil.
Thanks trish K for your support...It was a qoute thats all dr feelgood.... Maybe it could help someone...sorry it did not seem to work for you.. by the way its good to know the history of smoking...I think it is...and yes if you look up the ingredients in tobacco like trish has posted it does have bad chemicals...so please get facts before you insult my post...
Don't be offended by Dr Feelgood! Not worth it. He works for a big tobacco company and is here to toy with your mind, make you doubt yourself and generally put down your efforts to quit smoking. Dr Feelgood is a tobacco company plant.
Lets FOCUS on why we are on this site - to QUIT a smelly old lifestyle habit that made us feel sluggish and cough! This negative vibe is a mere obstacle in the road simply jump over it and keep going ;)
All good Dr feelgood...I will move on from this...I dont believe in arguing...but I am always interested in healthy debate...I dont mind other opinions on any topic...its what keeps the mind ticking....so dont worry its forgotten already....Now we are all here together to fight this nasty smoke....goodluck to you all
Actually MickeyJ, I think dr.feelgood could be in the medical profession not with a tobacco company and is having trouble coping, or perhaps thinks of us as a challenge for some paper he is writing at university, a study case perhaps! I have noticed in his posts, he does pick up on certain medical terms that have been used here that are slightly incorrect. What ever, I'm happy to be studied....I'm a non smoker and thanks to you guys here for support and my trying hard everyday I'm going to stay quit