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"It's toasted" your throat protection - against irritation - against cough

Maki
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Quiz Question . What brand of cigarettes does the banner refer to ? Not sure maybe you never had them in the states but maybe?  Answer is at the bottom of this post . 

Here have graphics on cigarette packaging . It does not change the buyers buying , in fact people were designing their own covers to cover it up . Smokers will avoid the truth because ..... well you have your own answer to that .

Read old court documents , learn about how they "use " children and the poor !!! I'm sure they are boasting they are giving them jobs but if you read you'll understand the truth.

Big Ts marketing tactics alone show how manipulating big T is and how falsely they give people hope .They hired people who knew how to play people . I'm sure they were paid well .
Its deceiving trickery . They offered all of us false hope when they added filter tips to cigarettes , made cigarettes with holes in the filters all to convince us each was a healthier and better option . All of that that was a lie . They introduced light cigarettes , again a lie . I bought into those , they were safer , they introduced slim cigarettes , longer cigarettes and now e cigarettes .

Can we stop them ? I believe we can , but it takes all of us to take action .
Only the people ( we ) ex smokers can give the true hope all who smoke are looking for . We can change things for future generations . It's not too late .

The doctors who've perhaps been smokers themselves can have an impact today that will save our health care dollars and help the environment in the future .

We can help the poor so they don't have to work in tobacco fields . Sharing is caring .
We have to be honest non profit advocates for a safer world not a safer cigarette . .

Big T bought Drs ( remember those old ads ) they were paid Drs and paid ads and it sucked in hundreds of thousands of people of ALL ages . Movie stars ( remember those ads) , remember some of your favourite shows like I love Lucy , google how they got into puffing on cigarettes . Movie stars were paid and now have they have bought world leaders too ? ( was I reading right ? )
What's their plan ? Something scares me ... I have a hunch .

( I've said this for years ) if cigarettes weren't on the shelves all of us would have to quit . It's true . Everyone then will quit . Only 6 /7 percent can quit for life within support group and while 6 percent are quit , another huge percent are starting e cigs , drinking or drugs .

You can't smoke what you don't have . Ban big T ; trace their supporters , and ban them too . They are playing with our health care system to accommodate the tobacco industry . Let them pay the hospital bills .
Hospitals were already full with people sick from smoking related disease because somehow they work the system to their advantage .. and now we have COVID .. no more said .

They tell us in a decade they don't want cigarettes around anymore , they tell us it's because they care and are only now admitting smoking was and is deadly ! Something they knew all along ) ? Why now ? Research it .

Then vapes , E cigs using the same sales lures and sales tactics were introduced . Using all the human senses man adores, touch sleek cool design , compact , in noticeable , taste , flavour , smell , fruity , or none at all . Cigs named E cigs without the word smoke but vapour safer than cigarettes ? Really ? What's up their sleeve ?
Why has the talk stopped on e cigs lately btw .... research . I have. Ohhh Big T cares about us lol .. sure they do .

Money money money is what Big T is all about ... they get it and they use it . 10 percent hope for us gives them 90 percent profit . Share a bit of that with big names like the old days and they have 100 percent or more support and soon profits that will soar more than ten fold .

So what can we do ? While support sites to quit are helpful we are not doing near enough . Big T continues to draw in youth .

To be continued .........

Answer to this banner question . Whatch for the next tomorrow . 

Lucky cigarettes . 

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Smoker of 28 years . COPD recipient . My biggest help to quit was to read other successful quitters testimony . I’ll have a thirteen years quit June 30 , 2024 . Biggest lesson learned : I learned the “Just one” lesson . You can never have just one .It is the the key to everyone’s quit . Having “ none” is the easy way to quit smoking . Quit tools : Made use of my strengths and improved upon my weaknesses . Quit benefits , more time with my family , better quality of life , better self image . How I kept the quit : one day at a time , one step at a time . I told myself like a broken record : “ Don’t smoke ; Do something different “ then literally went and did something different other than smoking “ . Quitting is not complicated , nope is it , however it will be the process of self discovery for you to find that out for yourself . How long will that be ? Up to you . We are all different and we come from different backgrounds and smoked for different reasons so no one can really tell you when it will get easier for you only that it will . Be patient with yourself . Who cares how long it takes anyway because we all came to quit forever . This quit is for life , your life , so embrace it , welcome it , it’s the best thing you will ever do for yourself . The money you save get a bucket list of little rewards and big ones and do them . Change the things you can . Life is worth living . This gets easier , oh my gosh , so much much easier . Give it a season , give it two and you’ll never want to let go of your quit I promise you that . It’s wonderful , absolutely wonderful to be free . Quitting btw was the hardest thing I’ve ever done just like everyone here . I shed buckets of tears for weeks , yelled into a pillow , stuck my head into a cold bucket of water and paced aimlessly in head fog . Was it worth it , every bit of it ! Biggest improvement : , my health , the relationship with my family ( all non smokers thank goodness ) and finances . When I started 2011. I was walking three blocks with the use of inhalers for copd . Latest accomplishment : still on the inhalers no further advancement of copd . June 1 2023. Did my first 10 k . Next goal is my second 10k by the end of 2024 . I’m 68 years years young and I’m an Ex smoker . I was able to take three trips ( out of country ) with my family because I quit smoking . Time I never would have had had I not quit . Money from quitting paid for them . I want to say you are in control , take your power back from cigarettes from vaping or any addiction you might have . Life awaits you , don’t let it pass you by . Make the decision to stop and one day that light will shine upon you and make you a whole new you . Thank you to Quitnet members and Ex members for the support and encouragement to quit and stay quit . That along with my desire never to smoke again has given me a life long successful quit . No turning back , ever .