Sunday, February 12, 2006
Smoking is like the Internet
I've been coughing up phlegm (tried spelling that three times before it looked right) for a week now. Today, there were a few traces of blood, which brought back memories of my scary scary bout of pseudomonas aeruginosa back in 2001. Luckily, it was only once in the morning. After that, it's just been the normal yellow icky kind. That's supposed to be good, according to this link.
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/RespiratoryDisorders/messages/2354.html
Saw some other pretty interesting stuff on that forum. Like one guy said that our capacity to heal our own lungs stops at about 30. That's 3 years away for me. I'm feeling the urge to quit smoking again, but then I think about midnight ciggarettes, and all of a sudden, I feel like having one now.
So then I thought... why not make a Healthy Cigarette? Read this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/history2.html
It's a pretty shocking article. Apparently, some rate the Healthy Cig as the Holy Grail of Tobacco companies, and would give them plenty of ammo to go bad mouthing their competitors, and steal a huge market share.
UNFORTUNATELY... there are such things as lawyers. In short, tobacco companies have long touted the line "smoking isn't bad for you", but now, if they came up with a Healthy Cig, all of a sudden, other lawyers would be like "so you're saying that your other cigs are unhealthy?"
it's all very complicated, but very interesting at the same time.
This brings me to my 2nd subject. Ever since i got my internet connection at home, I've felt my life wasting away. I'd come home from a long day at work, and be like... "ok... let's check my mail and get started on some Splinter Cell!"
and i end up spending four hours, surfing up stuff like the nonsense you've just read. It's just addictive the amount of information and entertainment here - and it's mostly free (yes, even porn!)! You know how those health warnings on ciggie packs overseas go like "each Cigarrette reduces your life by five minutes"? how about this...
"each stupid blog entry reduces your life by five minutes"
wow... that's a fantastic endorsement to keep coming to this blog. whoever is reading it.
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/RespiratoryDisorders/messages/2354.html
Saw some other pretty interesting stuff on that forum. Like one guy said that our capacity to heal our own lungs stops at about 30. That's 3 years away for me. I'm feeling the urge to quit smoking again, but then I think about midnight ciggarettes, and all of a sudden, I feel like having one now.
So then I thought... why not make a Healthy Cigarette? Read this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/history2.html
It's a pretty shocking article. Apparently, some rate the Healthy Cig as the Holy Grail of Tobacco companies, and would give them plenty of ammo to go bad mouthing their competitors, and steal a huge market share.
UNFORTUNATELY... there are such things as lawyers. In short, tobacco companies have long touted the line "smoking isn't bad for you", but now, if they came up with a Healthy Cig, all of a sudden, other lawyers would be like "so you're saying that your other cigs are unhealthy?"
it's all very complicated, but very interesting at the same time.
This brings me to my 2nd subject. Ever since i got my internet connection at home, I've felt my life wasting away. I'd come home from a long day at work, and be like... "ok... let's check my mail and get started on some Splinter Cell!"
and i end up spending four hours, surfing up stuff like the nonsense you've just read. It's just addictive the amount of information and entertainment here - and it's mostly free (yes, even porn!)! You know how those health warnings on ciggie packs overseas go like "each Cigarrette reduces your life by five minutes"? how about this...
"each stupid blog entry reduces your life by five minutes"
wow... that's a fantastic endorsement to keep coming to this blog. whoever is reading it.
# posted by chak @ 6:03 pm 
