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1. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   There are two main, interconnected reasons for the "nicotine addiction" myth. Firstly, it serves the deranged antismoking goal of a smokefree world legitimized by a eugenics framework. Smoking is...

2. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   from the royal college of physicians (a group very aligned to antismoking since the early-1970s): "it is now widely accepted that nicotine is the primary addictive component of tobacco smoke. in...

3. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   The official line is that there are no benefits in smoking which is only an addiction. This is an erroneous view that was peddled by the Temperance Movement in the 1800s and that was also picked up by...

4. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   Blondie, I'm not a nurse. But I am aware that nurses are on the front line with a difficult balancing act to perform. Medical care of the last 40 years has become heavily technologized where medical...

5. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   Sistasoul: "It is a form of control. It is the taking away of our liberties one by one." The Godber/WHO Blueprint was advising in the 1970s that medical and educational facilities should ban smoking...

6. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   The first demand for a smoking ban was in the late-1980s concerning short-haul flights in the USA of less than 2 hours. At the time, the antismokers were asked if this was a "slippery slope" - where...

7. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   "i feel that people who smoke are looked at as if they are some kind of criminal." sistasoul, that's pretty close. that's the goal of denormalization. denormalization is a vulgar concept and...

8. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   Antismoking didn't just pop-up recently. It has a long, sordid history. The fanatics typically produce numerous, baseless inflammatory claims that produce a bigotry frenzy, i.e., a bandwagon effect,...

9. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

   whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

   (cont'd) Consider a recent "cost analysis" in Australia. Net health costs of tobacco use was estimated at $318,400 (p.67). The net revenue from tobacco sales was $6,700,000 (p.38). The revenue from...

10. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

    whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

    "what about the "so-called" extra medical services required by a non-smoker who has the "pleasure" of living with a lung condition caused by the smoker they live with?" colleen, no, i'm not only...

11. COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

    whatsgoingon replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

    How many know what the effectiveness of nicotine patches (or any NRT) is? At one year, it's about 3%, i.e., 97% failure rate. At 2 years, it's even closer to a 100% failure rate. Nicotine addiction is...