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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Pinned

Hi Frances, are you familiar with Joe Jackson's (yes, THE Joe Jackson) brilliant essays on smoking?

If not, here's a link where you can download them:

https://memberdata.s3.amazonaws.com/jo/joejackson/files/3765647615810.pdf

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Another thing, whatever covid may or may not be, there was an odd discovery that smokers (after studying it further it was the nicotine specifically) were getting hit less, less severe and had faster recovery.

https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13223-023-00797-0#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%20findings%20of,%2D19%20symptoms%20%5B183%5D.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29118-6

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Apr 24Liked by Frances Leader

I have never smoked and stopped drinking alcohol (I was drinking very modest amounts anyway) when I retired. Ever since I got married my wife has been keen, thanks to her upbringing, to serve high quality food, although not all of it has been organic.

Without any scientific basis, she told me immediately the Covid virus was probably a hoax (she does believe in the existence of viruses) and persuaded me not to get vaxxed.

Well, I can tell you with a lot of pride neither of us got (caught 🤣) Covid, and I am particularly grateful not to have taken any of the kill shots.

So, what is your evidence that your smoking has protected you against EM radiation, and that my healthy living (food and physical exercise) has not protected me but just pure luck? I know you did not say anything about pure luck, but your article suggests it is smoking and nothing else that protects against EM radiation.

Off topic: I am a fellow swimmer, a good one at that — pardon my self-praise.

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This is not good news haha.

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Another thing is, I knew lots of heavy smokers that didn't die of lung cancer and lived to a very old age and remember Roy Castle https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tragedy-roy-castle-died-lung-22618117

we need to storm the bastille and rid ourselves of these lying murdering money junkies.

Respect & X 2 All

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Yeah, anything they don't want you to do will be the reverse of what they say it will be doing to you, mum lived to 86 and was a tea Jenny and smoked more than she ate and would probably still be here now if they hadn't put her on their medical protocol's and end of life pathway's, makes my blood boil that I ever trusted these clowns. Respect & X 2 All

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Great article - Cigarettes sales were banned in South Africa during the lock-downs and the illegal trade boomed... Where you would pay R 400 for a carton (10 packs of 20 cigarettes) you would be willing to pay up to R 1 650 - Some people made a ton of money.

I'm a smoker myself - I never get sick, but I do also supplement with full plant extract, full spectrum CBD oil for the aches and pains for approaching 50....

So happy I found your stack. :-)

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I love you, sis!

Great articles.

Blessings ~

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Mar 30Liked by Frances Leader

Nicotinic acid…..Niacin….Nicotine...

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Mar 28Liked by Frances Leader

I will leave this here for those who do not question or see anything.

Smokers and smokers have hit an all time low, millions have given up or have never bothered taking it up.

Even with the huge drop in numbers worldwide cancer rates are soaring when in reality they should have dropped like a bomb through the floor.

If you haven’t noticed it’s at odds with the narrative projected then you don’t pay attention to the crap and lies that they pull.

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Mar 28Liked by Frances Leader

I do swear some people walk around with their eyes painted on.

The reason I say this is because during the first lockdown I had the tv on(usually watch Poirot and Columbo repeats) when one of the many adverts came on which pricked my ears up. It was the cancer research scrounging which had dropped the numbers from 1 in 3 getting cancer to 1 in 2.

A couple of days later me and a colleague were talking at work and I mentioned it in conversation how the advert had dropped the numbers again and at this rate they’ll have everyone down as getting or having cancer.

Strangely this conversation was brought yesterday at work because another colleague did the shit on the stick test they post out and you post back and it was flagged up suspecting something.

On Monday they went for the camera up their arse and we were saying how we hoping everything was ok. I brought up the conversation we had back in 2020 and how it was no good just treating folk without getting to the root of the problems to what is causing cancer, mind you if they did then they’d have little money flowing through all those ahem charities, I do use that term loosely.

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Mar 28Liked by Frances Leader

I think it’s also an innate desire to hang outside with people who aren’t sick.

I was in print media for 23 years (journalist, sub editor, editor) in a building of 200+ people, with crap air conditioning. Those who stayed inside all day were invariably contagious in flu season. Remembering that back then we only had 5 sick days’ leave a year, so you went to work unless bedridden.

The smokers were the hardy ones, huddling under eves and in doorways in winter.

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Mar 26Liked by Frances Leader

I remember reading about how tobacco was used for asthma and other breathing problems…that it was actually good for the lungs. Never understood why the colonists and native Americans invested so much in a crop that allegedly was so dangerous. Turkish tobacco was Camels claim to fame. Then reading about all the additives mandated by government to make smoking “safer”. Carpet glues and such in response to people falling asleep in bed with a cigarette (remember that?) Filters? Ive smoked most of my life with the exception of a short time in the 80s. I started again after going through a divorce but kept it to about 2 packs a week. I had a heart attack about 9 or 10 months ago and that kind of freaked me out. Even after nearly a year, I find myself wanting a smoke. I’m sure that it’s not the tobacco that is bad…but, what is put in it.

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I reached a similar conclusion. Tobacco is the least harmful of the legal vices.

Alcohol kills you FAST and rots your brain long before it killls you. Tobacco takes about three years off your potential life, and makes you saner instead of crazier. I've seen this difference repeatedly among my relatives and friends.

The campaign against smoking started in the late 40s when Deepstate resurged after FDR died. The campaign went into overdrive in the 90s when Deepstate went into overdrive with new wars and new panics every year.

Meanwhile, the government ENCOURAGES drinking, which kills you fast and rots your brain. Supposedly one cigarette will end your life, while one drink per day is RECOMMENDED.

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Mar 25Liked by Frances Leader

Fascinating topic here! Yes I’m a smoker - almost 64, never had influenza and colds last a day or two.

I saw an interview between UK doctors discussing vitamin D, and how the demographics hardest hit with covid (whatever that is) were deficient in vitamin D. I realised that us smokers, forced to congregate outside, were exposed to more sunlight as a result.

I’ve also concluded that smokers are more interesting to hang out with - we’re the outcasts, rebels, even stubborn possibly - and there’s immediately a sense of belonging, along with all the humour that accompanies it.

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