My tip would be: try to not look back at smoking with nostalgia, but with hatred. You were enslaved by a murderous industry, now you're free. That mindset worked very well for me
UK Health Secretary Victoria Atkins on the Tobacco and Vaping Bill - 'There is no liberty in addiction. Nicotine robs people of their freedom to choose. The vast majority of smokers start when they are young, and three-quarters say that if they could turn back the clock they would not have started. That is why, through this Bill, we are creating a smoke-free generation that will guarantee that no-one who is turning 15 or younger this year will ever be legally sold tobacco, saving them from the misery of repeated attempts to give up, making our economy more productive and building an NHS that delivers faster, simpler and fairer care. I would argue it is our responsibility, indeed our duty, to protect the next generation and this is what this Bill will do.' https://au.news.yahoo.com/no-liberty-addiction-health-secretary-135902928.html#Ukpol#UKpol#smoking#health
@drrimmer They claim nicotine robs people of their freedom to choose with the force of addiction... and their answer is to rob people of their freedom to choose with the force of police and jail?
If they were really serious about addiction, they'd apply the same rule to caffeine in tea.
The NCAA really doesn’t want fans in Europe. Not only can I not find any way to watch March Madness from Spain, I couldn’t do brackets on most sites (did on ESPN and my family will have to cross-compare).
It’s probably my 4th-least favorite thing about living here (No. 1, 2 and 3 are all the same, cigarette smoking is much more common and smoke really bothers me). #MarchMadness#smoking#europe
@mlawton@obrien_kat this was just to do a bracket, not even to stream! I’m not really surprised streaming isn’t available as college basketball isn’t popular at all in Europe, but that their site can’t handle basic GDPR of an email address?
@ncoca Dang... I just want to do a regression on this... But I have no idea how to do that. Because I spotted something after looking closer... Where does the y=x line fall?
@chad Localy sourced? pig in your backyard? 😉
How is the meat kept during all those days? cold in fridge? warm with smoke or whatever to prevent it from spoiling?
@jfmezei Farm near Camrose. The meat has a curing solution applied to it, weighed to its mass, and over the period of the next week will penetrate the meat, giving it a pretty pink colour.
Spoilage starts where air meets the meat, so already the bacteria on the surface has been destroyed.
In fact, even if the cure doesn't completely penetrate the meat, as long as the meat is frozen after smoking it's safe.
A new study by Cancer Research UK suggests since 2020 a decades long reduction in the numbers #smoking by around 5% a year has halted.
Worryingly this halt has been most evident in deprived & poor regions/localities, while smoking among the 18-24 age group has actually begun to go up.
One of #RishiSunak 's few bipartisan polices, his aim to make the UK 'smoke free' by 2030, may therefore end up be more costly (in social support for giving up) than envisaged.
Research published in Lancet Oncology concludes that in the poorest areas, the risk of dying from #cancer is more than 70% higher than in the wealthiest areas.
The key to the difference is lifestyle changes, with giving up #smoking is a key shift; but of course, especially in poorer areas services to aid giving up #cigarettes has been hit by funding cuts.
Equally, getting fit also isn't cheap; from #bicycles to #gyms, if you have no money fitness aids are out of reach
@dnc love those. Like many foods I experienced it in Montreal first and have a hard time finding something that compares elsewhere. I love finding little mom and pop restaurants with quality eats. I have a talent for finding the ones in industrial neighborhoods that are inconspicuous, almost hidden.
@dnc In jail, they used to microwave bologna with grape jelly, said it made it taste like bbq'd pork. Until the screws took the microwave away cause no one cleaned up the leftover mess of bubbly fat and stuck-on jelly blobs. 🤷♂️
Like a stopped clock, #RishiSunak is right very so often, and on his plans for the progressive banning of #smoking, I think he is right.... but as I've said before, I assume he ran the idea past his chums in #BigTobacco first & they confirmed they think their future is in #vaping!
If #RishiSunak is considering a progressive ban on the purchase of #cigarettes & thereby moving towards making #smoking illegal, one can only presume that his chums lobbying for the #tobacco industry now feel that their employers (#BigTobacco) have a handle on alternative income streams - #vaping perhaps?
But, one thing is for sure Rushi would not have floated such a proposal without first checking with his advisors (who in turn would have checked with the lobbyists & those they represent!)
1/ Many behaviors are prohibited because they endanger others.
Second-hand smoke from #cigarettes is dangerous. It once posed a serious health risk indoors and indoor #smoking was eventually banned in virtually all public spaces in the US. The smokers complained that their “right” to smoke anywhere was being infringed. There is no such right. … #MaskUp#COVID
@meltedcheese People in the U.S.A. seem to have forgotten that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled about 120 years ago that you do not have the right to endanger your fellow citizens and that this overrides the First Amendment (Bill of Rights) in the Constitution.
The power to enforce this is very great (the extent of it would shock most Americans) and is in the hands of the governors of the states. But none of them seem to have the courage to use that power today. It was used during the Spanish Flu Epidemic and is credited with saving at least 20,000 lives in the City of San Francisco alone.
