Quit Smoking Now

According to recent studies first reported in the Swiss online news source thelocal.ch, E-Cigarettes can have just as much nicotine as real cigarettes, and twice as much as traditional quit smoking methods, like nicotine patches and gum. What’s really fascinating about this is that they are actually treating this like real news, much like CNN did when it reported that Saddam Hussein got 99% of the vote in pre-invasion Iraqi elections. Come on!

E-Cigarettes can contain as Much Nicotine as Real Cigarettes

Anyone that thinks that they should use E-Cigarettes to quit smoking is an idiot, and any company that pushes E-Cigarettes as a quit smoking method should be severely blamed. If you quit smoking cigarettes and switch over to E-Cigarettes, all you’ve done is change your nicotine delivery system. Instead of giving your money to a tobacco company, you’re giving it to somebody else.

Everyone is trying to get on the nicotine bandwagon, and who can blame them? It’s addictive, not terribly damaging to your health (the nicotine, not the tobacco!), its dirt cheap, and people like it, and oh yeah…. IT’S ADDICTIVE!

Don’t get me wrong. Whatever way you chose to quit smoking cigarettes, and that works, was the right way. But don’t think that you’re breaking an addiction when you switch to E-Cigarettes, because you’re not.

If you know anything, you’ll know that one of the hardest habits to break, as far as smoking goes, is the behavioral component. Holding something in your hands. Puffing on something. You know the drill. The fact is that E-Cigarettes take advantage of decades of conditioning on your part, and replace the smoking stick with another one that burns (or ‘vaporizes’) something of theirs, instead, so they get to take your money.

I would love to patent and market ‘Stop Smoking Sugar Free Candy Bars’. Just put plenty of nicotine in them, and people would flock to them, and more importantly, KEEP FLOCKING, because nicotine is ADDICTIVE! I’d be rich, and I could stop writing about quitting smoking! But I wouldn’t, because I like pointing out the insanity around me.

Oh yeah. Check out the original news story about the nicotine content of E-Cigarettes. Notice the breathless surprise!

http://www.thelocal.ch/national/20111102_1641.html#

Also known as Dr. Jessica Adams – she’s not a doctor, she just plays one on TV! – Odette Yustman is smoking hot. Now, the question as to whether she smokes cigarettes, there are no highly credible pictures of her smoking, but I did find one, and if you look carefully you’ll see that she’ s clearly holding a cigarette.

Odette Yustman Smoking a Cigarette

Odette Yustman is the second one from the left, and in her hand is a cigarette. Now I’m not saying that she’s smoking, merely that she’s holding an almost completely smoked cigarette. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!

Or it may be that this is not Odette Yustman at all, merely someone that looks like her. What do you think? Check out more Odette Yustman facts and trivia here.

British singer Adele has cancelled all her remaining 2011 US tour dates because she has to undergo surgery to her throat.

Adele Still Smoking Cigarettes

She had recently twice cancelled tour dates because of health problems directly related to her voice, such as laryngitis. Her doctors ordered her to rest her voice, but that apparently didn’t help enough, with surgery now the only remaining option.

Fans of the throaty singer should not fear, as she is expected to make a full and complete recovery.

Rumors that the 23-year-old singer was diagnosed with throat cancer were quickly squashed by her entourage.

By now, you must have heard about the campaign ad ran by Republican Presidential hopeful Herman Cain, featuring his chief of staff Mark Block. He says all these nice things about Herman, how American has never has a candidate like Herman Cain, et cetera, et cetera, and concludes by taking a big puff from a cigarette. If you’ve not seen the ad, check it out. It’s pretty funny, and Mark Block looks the part of a long term smoker, which I suspect he is.

As you can see on YouTube, the video isn’t exactly getting rave reviews. A quick, informal look over the comments seem to suggest direct hatred, or at least dislike for Herman Cain, and a significant number comment of the fact that he’s smoking a cigarette, in a mostly negative way.

In an age where smokers are vilified like the Anti-Christ, sometimes literally, and in which there freedoms are taken away one by one, why would anyone run a campaign ad, for the Republican nomination no less, featuring a big ol’ nasty smoker, doing what he loves best, which we’ll assume is smoking (and politics)?

Two possibilities: the first is that he thought that it would look real cool and make Mark Block look like a real tough guy, which is not the point of commercials. The second one is to get people talking, which I think is much more likely. Smoking cigarettes, while considered evil, bad, and demonized at every turn, remains a minor violation of etiquette, or proper savoir-vivre, for lack of a better term (of which there are none).

I write a smoking blog, for heaven’s sake, and talk about which celebrity has been caught with there (figurative) pants down, smoking cigarettes! I don’t write about politics (even though I should)! Yet here I am, writing about Herman Cain, his chief of staff, and … dare I say it… his 9-9-9 plan, which may or may not work, but let’s face it, the US is so deep in the hole that it’s time to try something new. Even if it doesn’t work, it can’t be worse than the rate at which your President is, seemingly purposefully, driving your country off a cliff. Or at least that’s what it looks like from the outside looking in.