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Jill Lang's avatar

My neighbours who’ve been smoking toxic commercial cigarettes in a smoke-free building and violating my human right to breathe clean air for YEARS can’t argue with the science, so now they’re blaming my severely injured sinuses, which have been bleeding for as long as they’ve been smoking on the property, on snorting cocaine, yet never once in my life have I snorted cocaine.

I’m doing everything in my power to reverse the damage the smokers are doing to my health.

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Guillermou's avatar

Hi Jill. Go ahead and report your neighbors. In Spain, the Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday the Draft Anti-Smoking Law, which will prohibit smoking on the terraces of bars, restaurants, cafes, and pubs. This measure is part of the amendment to Law 28/2005, of December 26, on health measures against smoking and regulating the sale, supply, consumption, and advertising of tobacco products, which is currently going through parliamentary procedures and has not yet entered into force.

Aspects of the Draft Law that will affect the hospitality and leisure sectors:

1. Consumption on terraces and in hospitality spaces

Smoking or the use of electronic cigarettes, hookahs, nicotine pouches, or other related devices is prohibited in:

Bar and restaurant terraces (both covered and uncovered).

Venues for public performances, concerts, or outdoor festivals.

Transportation stations and sports venues. This definitively eliminates consumption on terraces, a particularly sensitive point for our sector.

2. Advertising, Promotion, and Sponsorship

All forms of advertising or promotion of tobacco and related products are prohibited in bars, nightclubs, terraces, or other leisure establishments.

This includes posters, signs, street furniture, and hospitality furniture with logos or references to brands.

Sponsorship of cultural, sporting, or leisure events by companies in the tobacco sector or related industries is prohibited.

This impacts sponsorship agreements, venue decoration, and marketing strategies linked to tobacco or vaping brands.

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Health for All's avatar

Your situation is a clear example of involuntary environmental toxicity: secondhand smoke contains higher concentrations of toxins than inhaled smoke, causing chronic mucosal inflammation. Notably, "thirdhand smoke" (invisible residue on walls) can react with ambient gases to form even more potent carcinogens called nitrosamines. In my view, your neighbors' accusation is a classic diversion tactic; your bleeding is the genuine biological response of your tissues to constant, documented chemical aggression.

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Jill Lang's avatar

My refrigerator has also been leaking graphene oxide the entire time I’ve been living here (2017, which the caretaker with a criminal record is aware of), causing system-wide inflammation; and, there’s been a black mould issue in my bathroom three times since 2020, which the caretaker with criminal record berated me for last time I brought it to her attention. I live with a rare form of asthma called primary immunodeficiency. Even my doctor said the trend with my health outcomes is unsustainable.

Long story short, I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place in the heart of the housing crisis in Canada (can’t afford to move).

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Guillermou's avatar

The tobacco companies' best weapon for expanding their empire and reaping multimillion-dollar profits over the past fifty years has been money and their network of influence in governments worldwide. This corruption of power has left millions dead in its wake as a consequence of tobacco's lethal impact on health. Lies, manipulation, and countless fallacies and favors collected at the opportune moment to evade the full force of the law. Cocaine kills between 10,000 and 15,000 people every year in this country. Tobacco kills 425,000 people every year, in the U.S. alone,” (Mike Moore, Attorney General of Mississippi, during the 1998 settlement negotiations with the tobacco companies).

In the end, faced with overwhelming evidence of the health dangers of tobacco, the justice system defined it as a “conspiracy against the American people.” The verdict can be broadened, as it is clearly a conspiracy against all of humanity, which has left millions dead over these 50 years. The tobacco industry maintained shared goals through the use of public relations, research, cigarette design, and marketing, in basic areas such as the myth of independent research, addiction, nicotine manipulation, marketing to youth, and the concealment/suppression of information. A complete conspiracy with millions of deaths and chronic illnesses.

As ELA mentioned yesterday, if adolescents' diets are deficient in niacin, tobacco use can become an addiction. Niacin and nicotine are the same thing; their bodies would make them crave tobacco as a source of a necessary nutrient, but since it's a matter of taste, they couldn't scientifically describe it. An anecdotal response might be: "I don't know why I like it; I just like it," without understanding that they are satisfying necessary needs of the nervous system, just as orange juice provides antioxidants for the body. B vitamins are as important as vitamin C. A lack of vitamin C compromises the immune system; a lack of B vitamins compromises the nervous system.

The intention of this study is to discover whether tobacco use among adolescents, smoking, and other related issues can be the result of a niacin-deficient diet. Tobacco has been used to treat a wide range of other illnesses, including asthma (niacin prevents the release of histamine).

The goal is to reduce adolescent smoking by addressing dietary deficiencies, thus reducing the body's need for nicotine. The recommended daily allowance of niacin in the U.S. ranges from about 15 mg to about 20 mg per day. A smoker may only obtain a small amount of niacin over a lifetime from smoking (10-20 mcg per cigarette), but at least they have that lifetime to discover and correct the underlying problem (poor diet, alcoholism, or malabsorption), which is the only way to obtain niacin without the other 43 carcinogenic substances that the American Cancer Society has identified in tobacco smoke.

https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/tobacco/_PReptdisc/00000025.htm

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Health for All's avatar

The illusion of a "safety threshold" for tobacco collapses with this Johns Hopkins study: smoking just two cigarettes a day increases your mortality risk by 60%. Notably, smoking alters your gene expression through DNA methylation, and some of these epigenetic scars remain visible more than 30 years after the last cigarette. In my view, cutting down is a psychological trap because vascular toxicity is non-linear, saturating from the very first puffs.

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VaderClone's avatar

Just curious about this study..

Was fluoridated water a control medium? And since we all know it wasnt WHY wasnt fluoridated water added as a part of the study?

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