Every so often on social media a post surfaces, “look at how thin everyone was in the fifties/sixties,” what have you. Various explanations follow but the obvious explanation is glaringly absent… everyone used to smoke and smoke a lot.
What’s the first worry when you stop smoking? How much weight you will put on.
The question for someone as paranoid as me then becomes, did the powers that be figure out smoking was doing more good than harm and they could make more money off obese people than thin smokers. Smokers who used cigarettes for positive alteration of mood and staving off hunger pangs and, in later years, dementia and cognitive decline.
With the literal Satanic inversion of reality we see from our rulers I find it believable that the war on smoking is actually to make sure the plebs are sick and profitable for the Medical Industrial Complex. What profits a few years extra life if you’re in a care home with dementia being abused by minimum wage slaves and you’ve spent most of that life on “maintenance” medication for various psychological and obesity related ailments. We all know lifelong dedicated smokers who lived a suspiciously long time but have to shrug that off as anecdotal. Long lived smokers are somewhat of a conundrum for the medical community who advance all sorts of bizarre conspiracy theories as to how this happens.
All medications have a balance of effects that are dose related. Humans self-medicated with tobacco for millennia in some societies. We have seen how everything we are told about “health” has been lies, from dietary recommendations to vaccines and fake vaccines. Doll’s original work on smoking and mortality that kicked everything off showed a much less marked effect on mortality than is claimed today. Doll’s subject group is somewhat suspicious: doctors are famously outliers amongst professional groups in their high level of abuse of drugs for recreational purposes. That’s without considering the absurd nonsense about “second hand” and “third hand” smoke.
The picture on smoking and health is a lot more murky than the claims commonly published if you look into the source data. There is the issue of adulteration of tobacco and the effects of filters which may introduce toxic chemicals and microplastics. The effects of nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere which increased dramatically in the latter part of the C20 and concentrate in the leaves of tobacco plants should be considered.
All we can really say for sure is we know we are being lied to in order to maximize profitability of multi-national corporations. According to google British American Tobacco recorded a 5.7% increase in pretax profit for the first half of 2024. Big Tobacco seems to have been remarkably unscathed by the war on smoking.