Healthy Smokers for a Schizophrenic Industry
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 2012-10-08

Yay! I'm quitting smoking and breathing just air without tobacco for days in a row feels new and strange.

I've been thinking about my relationship to tobacco, as a schizophrenic. We hear strange things here and there, and no wonder.

Tobacco industry did something immoral (wait, I know, that's not news...)

They paid for phony research, gave smokes to psych wards for free when hospitals were trying to become smoke free zones, and certain individuals probably knowingly told lies directly to doctors, in order to get schizophrenic individuals to smoke, and smoke, and smoke it up.

This video explores the topic a little, and I hope to make you think of dropping the dirty habit.
Inform yourself with this full text scholarly review of insider tobacco industry documents:

http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/3/555.full


(Note: After recording this, minor occasional chest pain became more difficult to endure. Chest pain is a warning sign for the patch that I forgot about by the time it was happening, but getting the next step of the program today and reading the information that is packaged, the increasing chest pain worried me enough to take off the patch. Feeling more relaxed. 

I think I was becoming allergic to the nicotine in the patch, which the information also discusses. Whew.) __
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