Nightlight, I am quite interested in knowing what the cigarettes are that you refer to as I know of people who can not stop smoking would it be better if they changed to a safer variety that don't have so much "nasty" in them?

The first and the most critical thing for the health of a smoker is to shake off the "death curse", which is the most harmful aspect of smoking today, more so than the additive & pesticide laden junk supermarket cigarettes.

Therefore, you can email your friends smokers the link to my initial post in this thread, which will give them the rest of the story about this ancient medicine, tobacco. Merely smoking in clear conscience, like eating an apple or an orange, except knowning this ancient "gift of gods" is even healthier for you, will wipe out most of the harm they may have suffered due to the witch doctor effect.

Simply knowing that tobacco smoking is not merely harmless, but actually very good for your health, makes enormous difference in effects of smoking -- you breathe cleanly, jog and exercise happily (tobacco smoke, among others, upregulates the youth hormones, testosterone & DHEA, and slows down their decline with age; it also raises levels of Coenzyme Q10, which helps cellular energy production in mitochondria, thus helps muscles work better) and do all the things the antismoking con artists claim smokers aren't supposed to be able doing. During the season of colds, my wife and five kids get one or two per season, sniffle, cough and feel sick for several days, while I get only a brief, gentle hint of the virus trying to infect me the first time kids bring it in from school, which goes away without any external symptoms within couple hours, just a few cigarettes later. I have no allergies, coughs, bronchitis, asthma,... and only had some digestive and sleep pattern problems due to mercury toxicity (17 amalgams from my teens; they're now all gone for almost 3 months). The digestive problems have already mostly cleared (e.g. I couldn't eat potatoes and some other starchy foods, now I can eat them again with no bloating), mu sleep is better, although not quite fixed as yet (I am taking DMSA, 25mg on every 3 hours, week on, week off, the Cutler's protocol). My work energy level has also increased after the removal.

In several posts that followed, I described how to get even more healthy forms of tobacco (the core medicine is so potent, though, its healing magic is hard to ruin entirely, even by the junk cigarette brands). While 5-6 years ago, there were only American Spirit cigarettes and rolling/stuffing tobacco, which used pure, high quality organically grown tobacco leaf, 100% additive free,

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today, virtually every tobacco manufacturer has 'natural' brands in their product line, hence the good stuff is much easier to find. Even the regular Winston cigarettes (full flavor) use additive free, real tobacco leaf (although not organically grown). These do come with filters, which add non-biodegradable fibers to the smoke, without really helping anything since the tobacco smoke particles are the very medicinal compunds of tobacco leaf (note that the propaganda term "tar" is not what smoker inhales, "tar" is what you get when you condense these particles, i.e. "tar" is to tobacco smoke what a muddy puddle is a to a cloud).

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The organic molecules making up tobacco smoke particles are as old as life on Earth itself, going back hundreds of millions of years to primordial soup of organic molecules syntesized by fires of lightening and volcanoes. The biochemical networks of live cells, including those in our bodies, are perfectly well adapted to metabolize them without any harm to themselves -- it's what they are made of in the first place. We ingest thousands times larger quantitites of these same molecules in our food, water and air every day. Additives and filter fibers, which are mostly needless concessions to the antismoking con, are not something that biochemical networks of live cells have had eons of experience with, metabolizing, hence, without the long track record of smoke itself, which is fully biodegradable and at worst perfectly harmless, one should be more cautious with these extras, additives, pesticides and filters (although we do inhale all kinds of non-biodegradable fibers from clothes, carpets, upholstery,... every day; to say nothing of our food additives, which are ingested in vastly greater quantities than < 1-2 grams, the grand total of all materials a smoker takes in from tobacco smoke per day).

As with foods and beverages, preparing your own from scratch adds a special intangible, spiritual ingredient to the final product, which in my view has its own therapeutic value. Therefore I buy tobacco in cans and pouches, along with paper and empty filterless tubes, and make my own cigarettes (using mostly the "stuffing" method, although I also hand roll one or two a day, the real oldfashioned way).

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Some smokers go even further with 'do it yourself' than rolling -- they grow their own tobacco in their own back yards, even apartments:

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