I do beleive that cigarettes are bad. I am interested though in the old style ones that may not contain all the types of poisons they do now, but even then I'd never become a full on smoker.

I have gotten ill a few times from secondhand smoke and had to make my cousin smoke in our bathroom with the window open instead of my bedroom. So there is no doubt the stuff is toxic, or i'd not have gotten ill.

I had a friend who overdid it once also and she ended up vomiting up tar and blood, so there is NO doubt of its dangers.

I have a neighbour that smokes, she rolls her own and this lady is a mess psychologically, she's pale and she coughs nearly all the time. Sometimes you can hear her and she sounds like she's about to cough up a lung. Her doctor advised her to stop or cut down the smoking and she did and the coughing lessened, amost went away, but she went back again and started to increase the smoking and her coughing is back. If she carries on like this, i can't see her lasting quite frankly because the coughing at times makes me cringe to hear it. It's horrible.

So let's not forget the other side to this which is definitely not good. There are no doubts that throat cancer, lung cancer and many othe rthings can indeed be connected to smoking. As I mentioned earlier, my Mother was deteriorating on her own smoking and had chest pains etc. My father developed a terrible cough, both of these things went away when they finally gave up smoking.

I am grateful for the non smoking adverts. My only interest is in teh concept of the old age brain diseases and the connection with smoking in that area and mercury etc. But I'd only look at the old style organic type smokes and even then I'd be cautious. You don't see any other creature but humans lighting up. And yes surely there is another way of increasing glutathione levels in the body....e.g with the good satuatred fats and antioxidants, plus a good diet avoiding all the junk. Is it worth looking forward to an old age with the hope of avoiding dementia etc, only to end up with some other disorder? Surely they should be looking into why smoking works in that area and finding out what it is we can do to emulate the good and avoid the bad.