My cold is no worse. I’ve spent the day dozing and reading State of Fear.
H/T Leg-iron, for this:
In Silicon Valley, Sitting Is the New Smoking
People spend 9.3 hours per day on their derrieres, eclipsing even the 7.7 hours they spend sleeping. Their sedentary lifestyles contribute 10 percent of the risk of breast and colon cancer, 6 percent of the risk of heart disease, and 7 percent of the risk of type 2 diabetes.
The (ahem) bottom line is that sitting is a (usually) silent killer.
“Sitting is so incredibly prevalent that we don’t even question how much we’re doing it ,” Merchant told the TED audience. “And because everyone else is doing it, it doesn’t even occur to us that it’s not OK.”
“In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.”
And H/T correspondent blackcornflake for this:
Showing cigarette brands on fictional TV shows is “unnecessary” and of “questionable legality”, experts have said after they found that tobacco branding is “particularly common” in popular soap Coronation Street.
Researchers said there should be tighter regulations on television programmes with “gratuitous depictions of tobacco” after they found that one in eight programmes show people smoking and 34% contain some form of content relating to tobacco.
The authors, from the University of Nottingham and King’s College London, said smoking in films is a common cause of children’s smoking experimentation and uptake….
The authors wrote: “Tobacco content remains present in a third of all primetime free-to-air television programmes broadcast in the UK. Although much of this imagery comprised paraphernalia including no smoking signs, actual tobacco use occurred in 12% of programmes, predominantly feature films, reality television and comedy genres.”
Barking madness, both of them.
There might be hope yet for the human race. Bloomberg is getting scalded over the 32 oz soda edict and nannyism in general is finally being publicly questioned. People seem to be behind the judge who struck it down – at least by all the folks I’ve talked to.
It’s impossible not to connect that this is an extension of the smoking and seat belt laws.
Bloomberg has his core supporters, reputedly 46% according to one (semi-worthless) poll, but I doubt he’d win the mayorship if the election was held next week.
And UKIP is climbing in popularity over there.
Before I go to bed…
Tobacco Control is responsible for the widest distribution of tobacco advertising that it is possible to imagine. Remember the adage that ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity’. TC is responsible for the fact that EVERY SCHOOL, SHOP, OFFICE, PUB, EATERY, LIBRARY, CHURCH, HOTEL, HOSPITAL, ETC advertises smoking by virtue of the notices that they are obliged by law to exhibit. The adverts may say “NO smoking”, but the operative word is “smoking”.
I have noted, over the past couple of years, that it is not normally old farts like me who stand outside pubs smoking – it is the young. TC is responsible for widespread advertising of the pleasures of tobacco.
Straws in the wind. I know the antismoking mother of two boys. She’s banned smoking in her house, naturally. But a few years back when I visited, the older boy asked if I had some tobacco he could smoke. And a few months ago, she told me that the younger boy had started smoking too… at home! I couldn’t help laughing out loud.
I think the kids can see when they’re being propagandised. It’s the parents who are stupid and gullible.
Lot of people die in their sleep. It can be easily prevented.
99% of people that die, have drunk milk, or a milk contaminated drink (Coffee/Tea), or have eaten a milk contaminated product (Custard, Rice pudding, whatever) within the 24 hours before they snuff it!
Now, talking about statistics, THAT make tobacco look possitively life saving.
Yes. Sleep is a real killer.
Well it’s all happening today.
BHF hijacks cigarette packs on No Smoking Day
“The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is marking this year’s No Smoking Day (March 13) by hijacking tobacco firms’ packaging using augmented reality (AR) app Blippar to encourage smokers to quit.”
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/4005982.article
“The initiative marks the first time that product packaging has been hijacked in such a way and is part of a wider campaign focusing on the financial benefits of smoking cessation, employing the strap line “swap fags for swag.”
Ash and Cancer Research win ban on ads attacking plain cigarette packs
“Gallaher ran three ads in UK national newspapers claiming that there was “no credible evidence” to support the assertion that plain packets would prevent young people from starting to smoke.
The ads hit out against anti-tobacco groups and the Department of Health’s consultation on the introduction of plain packs claiming that the policy was rejected by the government in 2008 because there was “no evidence” it would work.”
“Anti-smoking campaigners Ash, Ash Scotland and Cancer Research UK lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority that the claims were misleading.”
“The ASA said that Gallaher’s ads made it sound like the government had decided to abandon the proposal and did not plan to revisit it in the future, due to lack of evidence, which was not the case.
In a ministerial statement lodged in 2008 Alan Johnson, then health secretary in the Labour government, said that the government would “keep tobacco packaging under close review”.
“We therefore considered that the claims in the ads that the policy had been ‘rejected’ in 2008 because of a lack of credible evidence gave a misleading impression of the position and action taken at that time by the government and concluded that the ads breached the [advertising] code,” the ASA said.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/13/ash-cancer-research-gallaher-cigarette-packs
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is marking this year’s No Smoking Day (March 13) by hijacking tobacco firms’ packaging using augmented reality (AR) app Blippar to encourage smokers to quit.”
And nobody is interested. Wherever I went today – it was a day like any other day.
(Hope the BHF didn’t scrounge the cash for this rather strange campaign from the government!)
Silcon Valley, San Francisco Bay, San Jose area – all smoking banned now too, same as San Francisco and at Google, Yahoo, eBay, Adobe, the rest of them – they will all want their employees up on their feet, running treadmills to generate electricity coming out of generators attached to said treadmills, to power their workplace computers which will all be strapped to the top of the treadmill machines – my prediction where they will be going with this sh*t. If everyone does it continually in unison, it will remind the overseers of how nice things were under Mao in China when their Communist Party benefactors ruled there too.
Tom one thing about insane liberalism is it has so many differing agendas they eventually cross each other and the fight is on. California is slowly sinking into a mass grave of its own making. Its a bankrupt state taxed out of existence!
Theres more smokers in california than the whole population of kentucky!
34 percent of Kentuckians live in a smoke-free community.
kentuckys population 4,314,113 – Jul 2009Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Yet kentucky has the highest smoking rate in the country at 29% thats roughly 1,251,000 current smokers.
100% of Californians live in a smokefree community.36,961,664 – Jul 2009Source: U.S. Census Bureau.California smoking rate reaches lowest level on record California smoking rate from 25.9% in 1984 to 11.9% last year, officials say. Thats roughly 4,398,438 smokers in california
Hey, I’ve think you’ve hit on the cure for the unemployment problem, with your treadmill idea. Three birds with one stone: jobs for all, lots of healthy exercise, and the energy crisis solved. All in one fell swoop.
Oh look Frank, it’s the Fenland Citizen again, read it quick before it disappears again.
Plight of desperate East Midland’s smokers prompts rallying cry for greater government support
“Over a fifth (22%) smokers surveyed in the East Midlands have lost count of the number of times they’ve tried to quit and just under one in twenty (6%) say they are ‘desperate’ to beat their addiction, according to a new report by the British Heart Foundation to mark the 30th No Smoking Day.
The ‘30 No Smoking Days Later’ report highlights the glory years of declining smoking rates but puts the spotlight on a current plateau in prevalence at around 20 per cent. It pinpoints the plight of the ‘final fifth’, many of whom will have been addicted to tobacco for years. It concludes that a step-change in efforts is vital to reach these people and kick-start a renewed steep decline in smoking rates.
The report calls on UK governments and local authorities to act now and step up the help available for struggling smokers in the East Midlands via local support services and implement new laws to strip away the glamour of smoking with ‘standardised’ packaging.
Dr Mike Knapton, Associate Medical Director for the BHF, said: “Every year more than 100,000 smokers die because of their addiction. This addiction can be incredibly hard to break and we hear time and again about smokers who are absolutely desperate to quit, they just don’t know where to start. No Smoking Day is here every year to support smokers no matter how long – or how many times – it takes, we cannot work alone.
“The downward trend in smoking rates has plateaued in recent years, proving we need to renew our efforts to help our ‘final fifth’ quit. Often these are long-term smokers, or people surrounded by family, friends and colleagues who smoke. They’re harder to reach, and they’ll probably find it hard to quit.
“That’s why we all need to reinvigorate our efforts to help smokers and UK governments are part of the mix. We need investment in local stop smoking services and measures such as standardised packaging to help protect our children from the fatal addiction so many people are currently battling with.”
Research confirms that two thirds of smokers want to stop however the report showed that just over eight in ten (82%) of those surveyed in the East Midlands said they’d tried and failed to quit, and over two thirds (35%) have made between four and 21 or more attempts. Smokers make an average of just over four quit attempts, according to the new data.
What motivates smokers to quit was explored in the report. It showed more than half (56%) of smokers in the East Midlands hate being told about the long term health risks of smoking, and already know it’s bad for them. Over a quarter (28%) said the financial impact of smoking is more of a motivator to quit than the effects on their long-term health.
In keeping with this financial theme, the BHF is hijacking cigarette packs from today by virtually transforming them in smokers’ hands into treats they could afford if they quit. Using the free ‘BlippAR’ app, smokers with Android or iPhones can scan what will hopefully become their last cigarette pack and watch it disappear in a puff of smoke revealing items they could afford with a week, month, or years’ worth of smoking savings.”
http://www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk/news/health/plight-of-desperate-east-midland-s-smokers-prompts-rallying-cry-for-greater-government-support-1-4885494
…according to a new report by the British Heart Foundation to mark the 30th No Smoking Day
Another impartial bit of research, I see.
It’s funny how if any research is funded by the tobacco industry there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how flawed the results must be given the source of funding, and yet anything emanating from the rabidly anti-smoking organisations is, by default, untainted and to be regarded as gospel truth.
We need investment in local stop smoking services
It is up to BHF and ASH et al to fund useless smoking cessation programmes. I’d rather my taxes paid are being put towards something USEFUL for all; e.g. Alzheimer’s research etc.
and measures such as standardised packaging to help protect our children from the fatal addiction so many people are currently battling with.”
Which FATAL illness is caused only BY SMOKING?
““Every year more than 100,000 smokers die because of their addiction.”
This statement is pure garbage and meaningless.
Using Doll’s doctors study, we find that for every 100,000 smokers that ‘die because of their addiction’, there are 99,000 never-smokers that die from those same diseases.
Questions this statement leaves un-answered:
1) What percentage is this of total smokers’ deaths?
2) What diseases are these deaths from?
3) What percentage of never-smokers’ deaths are from the same diseases?
““In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.”
Since companies will not hire smokers, wtll they also refuse to hire the handi-capped in wheelchairs?
They can not, such a hiring practice is illegal and discriminatory.
Smokers should demand equal protection under the law.
These idiots should try flying an airplane while standing and walking around, or driving a bus/truck.
ROFLMFAO
Mississippi passes ‘anti-Bloomberg bill,’ banning local limits on portion sizes and requirements to post calorie counts
The bill was authored by state Sen. Tony Smith, a Republican who owns the Stonewall’s BBQ chain, who said government shouldn’t tell people what they cannot eat.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/passes-anti-bloomberg-bill-bans-limits-portions-posting-calorie-counts-article-1.1286804#ixzz2NRDa7Fk3
CG3 is kicking off WUWT.
So it seems : )
Frank dont feel alone. I came in lastnite from Bingo and had chills all nite long with no sleep,then about 3 am the chills broke and started running hot flashes til about 9am. On top of all that Runny nose,chest congestion etc. Whatever it is Ive had people tell me its lasting 2 weeks and longer!
Hope you last two weeks or longer. :(
Not a problem I survived 3 years of Lyme Disease without being diagnosed! Hair all fell out,diseminated disease………left side brain ataxia etc……………
Poor HR. I’ve heard about Lyme Disease and that it’s extremely nasty. Didn’t know it made the hair fall out, though.