tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post9004299889185975264..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Tobacco and Allergies: Is There a Connection?Christopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-7273569470960057382010-12-05T11:13:40.430+00:002010-12-05T11:13:40.430+00:00Apologies. Had problems posting. Parts 1, 2A, and ...Apologies. Had problems posting. Parts 1, 2A, and 2B appear in the previous thread (hope they’re still there).Magneticnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-887479143679376082010-12-05T09:34:27.211+00:002010-12-05T09:34:27.211+00:00(cont'd) 5.
So, if there are any actual psycho...(cont'd) 5.<br />So, if there are any actual psychologists left in academia, you would first have to find them. You would then have to convince them to spend months and months acquainting themselves with what has been occurring in antismoking and Public Health over the last few decades. They would then have to be convinced to speak against the official grain. Not an easy ask at this time.<br /><br />For some insights into somatization, I would urge a reading of the book Rampant Antismoking Signifies Grave Danger, p.364-381. For issues regarding asthma, p.297-301, 302-305. Available at www.rampant-antismoking.comMagnetic5noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-53114796909770625012010-12-05T09:33:11.188+00:002010-12-05T09:33:11.188+00:00(cont'd) 4.
All of these claims of fairly imme...(cont'd) 4.<br />All of these claims of fairly immediate SHS harm can be tested with straightforward experiments where sensory/perceptual cues are removed. It can be distinguished if symptoms are produced by the physical properties of externalities or are psychogenic. The problem is who’s going to do these experiments? There are few people with psychological aptitude left in academia around the world. Also occurring over the last few decades has been a decimation of the academic discipline of psychology. Many psychology departments that still call themselves so are overrun with behaviorists. Behaviorists are not psychologists. They are biological reductionists, materialists. Their only interest is in the overall, observable behavior of the “organism”. There interest, too, is in how to get the “organism” to behave in preferred ways through operant conditioning. Other psychology departments have properly been renamed “Behavioral Sciences”. Worse still, some once-independent psychology departments have been taken over by medical faculties. While courses in these departments go by such names as medical psychology or health psychology, the disposition is behaviorist. Their overarching interest is in how to advance the medical model and dogma.<br /><br />It should be of grave concern that, given all the universities around the world, there is not one article in the official literature that addresses the potential psychogenic/mental health ramifications – for both smokers/nonsmokers - of antismoking activity, much of it an assault on mental health. These shifts are not coincidental. It reflects the intent to remove potential counter-argument to materialist (e.g., eugenics) philosophy and politico-ideology.Magnetic4noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-63139625232308350282010-12-05T09:32:18.623+00:002010-12-05T09:32:18.623+00:00(cont'd) 3.
A subgroup of asthmatics is also v...(cont'd) 3.<br />A subgroup of asthmatics is also very prone to psychogenic productions or exacerbations of asthma. In a 1970s experiment, a group of asthmatics breathed in an innocuous solution that they were led to believe was a trigger for their asthma. A sizable group developed asthmatic symptoms and a smaller subgroup developed a full blown asthma attack purely on the <i>suggestion</i> of hazard, i.e., a nocebo effect. Those with the symptoms were again given the same innocuous solution to breath, this time being told that it was a bronchio-dilator that would clear the symptoms. Their symptoms cleared, i.e., a placebo effect. Note, too, that, until the current antismoking crusade, any smoke (cooking, heating, tobacco) as it is typically encountered was not considered even a trigger for asthma. There was a time when asthmatics were recommended to smoke a few cigarettes as an antispasmodic.<br /><br />The antismoking crusade has opened a veritable Pandora’s Box of mental dysfunction which then has social ramifications. The antismoking mentality is itself a cluster of mental dysfunctions. When antismoking is allowed to dictate public policy, it promotes mental dysfunction in the population at large. The additional tragedy is that the antismokers will then use the psychogenic symptoms that they helped to produce as “evidence” for the “harmful” <i>physical</i> properties/effects of SHS. It is coddled/reinforced dysfunction that becomes a vicious circle.Magnetic3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-1437466233398442632010-12-03T13:59:27.180+00:002010-12-03T13:59:27.180+00:00Arnott's eyes light up
Don't give that wr...<b>Arnott's eyes light up</b><br /><br />Don't give that wretch Arnott any other ideas to twist into falsehoods!JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239651363530826401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-85268882824409158192010-12-03T11:56:53.608+00:002010-12-03T11:56:53.608+00:00It would be surprising if tobacco smoke is an alle...It would be surprising if tobacco smoke is an allergen unless many other types of smoke are also allergens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com