by Terrence Aym

Created on: April 23, 2010

10 amazing health benefits from smoking

With all the bad press about smoking the last 40 years it's rather surprising that many studies have been done that reveal some significant benefits from smoking. Most of the research—that was not funded by tobacco companies—has been suppressed.

While it's true that, depending on an individual's genetics, smoking can have a very negative impact on health, it is also true that a significant number of smokers live well into their 80s and 90s. An example of a smoker who lived past 100? Actor and comedian George Burns who attributed his long life in part to having 7 to 9 cigars every day. Although he was half-joking, he might have been closer to the truth than he knew.

A history and perspective on the anti-smoking culture

The latter half of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century has seen many cultures on Earth propagandized by their government, media and educational systems. Whether the propaganda involves the environment (the man-made global warming fiasco that's now proven to be a fraudulent hoax), pesticides on crops (recently dismissed as a 'non-issue' by one of the founders of America's environmentalist movement), or tobacco products, the issues have been polarized and emotionalized. Good science has been overshadowed by political agendas.

To those that argue that smoking kills, they need only check out the Earth's numerous graveyards. The non-smokers buried in them far outnumber people who smoked. Everyone dies.

Others bring up the bugaboo about the dangers of second-hand smoke. Despite what politicians at all levels of government have done to restrict passive smoke and demonize it, the World Health Organization's own massive study revealed that second-hand smoke is not only harmless, but actually seems to have health benefits for children!

The anti-smokers have used misinformation, flawed studies, skewed studies, intimidation and regulatory gangsterism to force their agenda on the public at large and the individual in particular. (Example: The transnational tobacco-free initiative of the World Health Organization and its betrayal to its charter and stated mission. To read white paper go here.)

They have used fascist and subversive methods to achieve their ends just as Adolf Hitler did in Nazi Germany. It's an analogy that's merited as Hitler was an avid anti-smoker, environmentalist and vegetarian who sought to force his personal preferences on all those around him. In fact, the original German

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