Smoking - GOOD for You

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Smoking - GOOD for You

Yesterday I noticed an interesting article the SOTT editors picked up:

Brain cells work differently than previously thought: Nicotine helps to spark creativity

which tells us:

Increasingly, studies are beginning to show that complex information processing, and perhaps consciousness itself, may result from coordinated activity among many parts of the brain connected by bundles of long axons. Cognitive problems may occur when these areas don't communicate properly with each other. [...]

Using nicotine, they stimulated the axon to determine how it would affect a signal the brain cell sent to the cortex. Without applying nicotine, about 35 percent of the messages sent by the brain cell reached the cortex. But when nicotine was applied to the axon, the success rate nearly doubled to about 70 percent.

Nicotine DOUBLES the efficiency of our thinking. Hmmm... I think that makes it pretty clear why the PTB (Powers That Be) wish to stamp out smoking. After all, as one comment to the article mentioned, "if our immunity to emotional manipulation and psychopathic propaganda is directly proportional to the cortical control we can exert over the knee-jerk emotional reactions programmed into the amygdala. If smoking can DOUBLE the effective communication between the cortex and other parts of the brain, then what does that say about efforts to do away with smoking in the general population? Can't have any of the hysterical sheeple accidentally waking up and thinking rationally about their actions."

article continues:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/

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A HA HA HA HA HA! So what, Phillip-f***ing Morris is on our side, now? They really aren't greedy corporate whores who could care less about people's health so long as they're pocketing a few more bucks, they're really avatars of a new age! Yes, spreading free-thought sticks to the masses at $5 a pop!


Oh, sorry, did this topic warrant more than that?

Ok, then.

I know lots of smokers that are regular * whose brains don't seem to be communicating any more effectively than anyone else's...

More?

Ok.

So on one nebulous 'study' from a SOTT article (the link to which doesn't seem to be working, by the way), that was itself linked from a translated-from-the-Polish blog, we're to say "Ah well, to hell with all the studies throughout the years that have shown smoking to be REALLY HIDEOUSLY BAD for you, light up and experience whole new levels of thought!"

But then, I'm just one of those hysterical sheeple.

P.S.- After reading the blog in question, I'm beginning to get the feeling that comparing the opposition to Hitler or making nonsense connections to the third reich in general seems to be the sole remaining fallback tactic for any weak argument.

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