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It begs the question as to why American cigarettes cause more deaths, and it could be the additives are what kills, not the tobacco / nicotine. Makes one pause.

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True. Another consideration could be the filters. I've heard people say the filters are like shards of fiberglass. Best way is probably rolling your own with true tobacco leaves, not the commercial stuff the government allows to pump chemicals in. Maybe I'll take up smoking🤔

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My Dad chewed tobacco his whole life and passed at 78 from COPD.

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lol Great! Im not a smoker but my sister is since 14 years old. She is a heavy smoker, diagnosed with HIV then AIDS since her teens , also kidney failure and a list of other things.She was told 5 years ago she needed kidney dialysis, but refused opting rather to die. She is still here and last winter skillfully avoided the jab after being told by a doctor she will die without it .

She is presently 65 yrs old and still laughing it up with a butt in her mouth .

After all this, her doctor says her lungs are perfectly clear. go figure

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The doctor is a liar. Lol

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I think you are right.

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John. either that or my sister is. lol. i wasnt there. be she is still going, no cough or lung issues.

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My Grandmother Bess smoked Parliament 100s. No filter and drank 1 quart of PBR beer daily and lived into her early 90s. Her apartment did smell like an ashtray even though she kept it clean. God rest her soul.

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John amazing. not going to say here or there , but there is alot to say for being happy, enjoying living, even if its dysfunctional in others eyes. my sister believes none of it matters , and that we have a date set for our exit before we arrive here. who can say? even god scratching his head! lol

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This is something that doctors can't explain. I know obese people who chain smoke, are diabetic, yet are in their 70's. It's difficult to make them change.

They outlive all odds!

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It makes no sense that your sister was told she had to go on dialysis. I comment not knowing much else:

The two main reasons are a high potassium which can kill, and fluid in the lungs.

Since she has survived so long without it, it, I am going to agree with John below and say that there is no way she ever needed it.

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her gfr was 10. then it came up and has stabilized around 15 and in the low teens . my sister is a medical analomy

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Interesting information.

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Thank you. I think they have been lying to us.

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Understatement.

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I’m a 64 year old former smoker. I smoked cigarettes on and off for more than 40 years. I quit smoking back on April 2019 because I had brain tumor surgery. Thank God it was successful craniotomy and I made a complete recovery. My mother never smoked. She passed away in 2006 at the age of 70 history of diabetes and heart disease. Her mother, my maternal grandmother passed away in 2010 at the age of 104. My grandmother never had any health problems in fact smoked lucky strike non-filtered cigarettes up until the day she passed in her sleep. My grandmother never ate any food out of a can or box. It really makes me wonder if it’s the food and water that we’re consuming today along with vaccines and pharmaceutical products that are causing our health problems?

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It's the vaccines, but proper diet can repair much of the damage. Too bad 99.74% of us have been exposed to vaccines, AND most humans eat nothing but crap.

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Your grandmother had very excellent genes! AND ate everything natural, the latter being a remedy in itself because it avoids artificial everything! I want to be like her!

And it makes you think that American filters are part of the problem.

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BINGO.

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All of those things. Tom Lehrer did a great song on the water and air polution issues in the States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI

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Just watched it, I must say he hit the nail on the head

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Yes he did. And when you think it was some 60 years ago too and still many people don't care.

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Thanks for info!!! Dr Ardis first brought this info up

On nicotine and it competing on the nicotinic receptor sites bumping off the snake poison in the vaxxines.

Movie regarding centurions one man in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ran marathon, at the 13th mile sat and drank one beer had one smoke. Then ran rest of race.

Always thought about that guy and wondered just what kinda tobacco he’s smoking.

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I bet it was natural tobacco, good thoughts. Unbelievable that runner stopped for a beer and a smoke!

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Regardless of life expectancy in terms of age, Every smoker I know has Halitosis, yellow finger nails, Creepy skin and a horrible odor about them so I will choose Quality of Life over bad habits with the aforementioned side effects. Quality beats Quantity in such a short life as we sure as hell can't take it with us anyway.

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I hate the smell of cigarettes but I am keeping some organic tobacco in my medical kit;)

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I’m a fan of NicNacNaturals

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Oh interesting!

No microplastics, no artificial flavors, prebiotic, natural sweetener and magnesium. All good.

Here's an info link for our readers:

https://www.nicnac.com/pages/ingredients

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Hmm... not exactly a pure food... I avoid those ingredients in my supplements. Xylitol is questionable.... I know it's in gums but there are studies showing it not only kills bad bacteria but also the good.... and lately it's showing it can be bad for the gut environment.

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Only a few know the truth about Nicotine...RR

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Right?

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Smoke cigars. There is a reason NY taxes cigars at 75% excise, yet they only tax mariuana pre rolls at 15%. Tobacco is life, and they don't want you to have it.

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🎯

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They want you to have it but they also want you to pay in advance in higher insurance premiums if you're a smoker. They don't want to pay for lung transplants from self induced emphysema.

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What about Organic Nic salt vape juice, It's only got 4 ingredients, right? Compared to 4,000 toxic poison ingredients in one cigarette!

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I'm not sure about the vape problems some teens have had with "popcorn lungs", but 4 ingredients is much better than 6,000!

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My father taught me in the 1960s that chewing tobacco has 4 or 5 poisonous ingredients but cigarettes had 11. Dad taught us to be strong and independent. He took the same pre-med in college as a Cowboy studying to be a Veterinarian. Mom helped by teaching us things her Mother and Grandmother taught her. I imagine with all of the Depopulation Agendas globally that cigarettes likely contain many more poisons than they did 60 or so years ago. No matter what we are better off growing our own fruits, vegetables, etc ourselves to be safe as God intended. Teach your children well, yourself. Trust nobody else to do it for you.

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Popcorn kung is a thing that causes the smart ones to quit young.

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Twenty years ago the Director of the Environmental Health Lab at the CDC showed me how the Tobacco companies were spraying the tobacco with crystalized nicotine so that when you smoked the tobacco you were inhaling nicotine crack to get you good and addicted.

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Americans have far more vaccinations than Europeans

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I grow my own tobacco. This years crop was Virginia Gold. You can purchase them at Victory Seeds. The area in NY I live was once the tobacco capital of the US some two hundred years ago. There are Tobacco barns from that era still standing about one mile from my home. Cheers

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I'm not a smoker, but I think that with a bad diet, lack of exercise and smoking, it will cut your life expectancy. The food, drinks, and cigarettes now are laced with so many things that are not hhealthy also. Great article, Dr. Aranda.

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Dr. Ardis confirmed that nicotine is not addictive in itself. It is the additives that are addictive.

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You can smoke for me and let me know how it goes

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