Honestly I don't know why more adults who smoke (and refuse to quit) don't switch to chewing tobacco?
When I switched from smoking cigarettes to chewing tobacco (Copenhagen snuff, oh yeah!) I didn't get colds so often, I didn't have lung/phlegm problems, I didn't smell like tobacco smoke, and I didn't have all the other health problems associated with smoking tobacco. Obviously there were risks involved (cancer, receding gums causing tooth loss, possible blood pressure oddities, etc.) but I experienced none of the above in the short time I chewed tobacco.
Sure, spitting tobacco may be seen as disgusting, but some of the methods employed within the delightful read "My world of Nicotine -- a HOWTO of chew" provides brief solutions.
With any tobacco product, it bears investigating what the manufacturers mix in with the tobacco. I've read that chewable snuff from Sweden is touted by many to be safer than brands coming from the U.S.A. I don't know all of the facts, but it seems like people who smoke tobacco end up
dying quicker and more often than people who chew tobacco.
I fail to see any 'safe' cigarette being created until/unless someone has managed to eliminate the creation of nitrosamines via curing and burning.
That said, aside from nitrosamines, if the tobacco companies wanted to make a safer cigarette (I know production costs is an issue) why don't they grow organic tobacco, not add anything extra to it, and not dip/treat it with pesticides (hence organic)?
"While I have no doubt that given the chance, Apple would behave just as bad as MS"
/me smiles
"I just can't see why would in any way want to band up with MS at this time. "
Perhaps you should go back and reread the history of MS, including its involvement with Apple. With that history in mind and present events, watch what MS and Yahoo are doing with the scent of Google in the air.
"First of all, Apple is actively competing against MS in a way that even surprises many Mac fanatics, for example by releasing Pages in addition to Keynote."
Like they were way back when until Mac fanatics were surprised to see a giant Gates head displayed on a screen behind Jobs? History often repeats itself.
"Apple losing MS Office would not be very good for their business."
I was referring to MS products, not one product alone.
"Secondly, Linux does not pose any major threat against MS and Apple at this time."
Perhaps not at the moment in the U.S.A., but everything I've been seeing in the news regarding other countries and their adoption of Linux seems to suggest otherwise.
"Granted, MS loses users to Linux but Apple is stealing Linux users to OSX. I fail to see what MS has to contribute here."
If/when Apple x86 becomes popular, and MS continues to lose people to Linux and Apple receives Linux users you should look at the circle that's being drawn here in the bigger picture, how does the circle form its complete route? If MS were to sell products to Apple x86 users, many who would likely be coming from MS:Windows and/or Linux.
P.S. I hope you're able to read this, my warm welcome today upon registration has been a gift of bad karma for a few open minded posts. Hooray for free/open thought, eh? (raises glass of I-know-this-will-be-modded-down juice)
The plunge into selling Wintendo products on Apple x86? Oh yay! While a lot of propeller heads may rejoice, it's still not FOSS/Linux, in fact the timing may be perfect to benefit both Apple/Microsoft all at once in countering Linux on the desktop for the masses. Of course, the claws come out when mentioning this and while I'm not naming names, forced to compete with free, corporations will band together to ride out the storm of competition.
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Honestly I don't know why more adults who smoke (and refuse to quit) don't switch to chewing tobacco?
When I switched from smoking cigarettes to chewing tobacco (Copenhagen snuff, oh yeah!) I didn't get colds so often, I didn't have lung/phlegm problems, I didn't smell like tobacco smoke, and I didn't have all the other health problems associated with smoking tobacco. Obviously there were risks involved (cancer, receding gums causing tooth loss, possible blood pressure oddities, etc.) but I experienced none of the above in the short time I chewed tobacco.
Sure, spitting tobacco may be seen as disgusting, but some of the methods employed within the delightful read "My world of Nicotine -- a HOWTO of chew" provides brief solutions.
With any tobacco product, it bears investigating what the manufacturers mix in with the tobacco. I've read that chewable snuff from Sweden is touted by many to be safer than brands coming from the U.S.A. I don't know all of the facts, but it seems like people who smoke tobacco end up dying quicker and more often than people who chew tobacco.
I fail to see any 'safe' cigarette being created until/unless someone has managed to eliminate the creation of nitrosamines via curing and burning.
That said, aside from nitrosamines, if the tobacco companies wanted to make a safer cigarette (I know production costs is an issue) why don't they grow organic tobacco, not add anything extra to it, and not dip/treat it with pesticides (hence organic)?
"While I have no doubt that given the chance, Apple would behave just as bad as MS "
/me smiles
"I just can't see why would in any way want to band up with MS at this time. "
Perhaps you should go back and reread the history of MS, including its involvement with Apple. With that history in mind and present events, watch what MS and Yahoo are doing with the scent of Google in the air.
"First of all, Apple is actively competing against MS in a way that even surprises many Mac fanatics, for example by releasing Pages in addition to Keynote."
Like they were way back when until Mac fanatics were surprised to see a giant Gates head displayed on a screen behind Jobs? History often repeats itself.
"Apple losing MS Office would not be very good for their business."
I was referring to MS products, not one product alone.
"Secondly, Linux does not pose any major threat against MS and Apple at this time."
Perhaps not at the moment in the U.S.A., but everything I've been seeing in the news regarding other countries and their adoption of Linux seems to suggest otherwise.
"Granted, MS loses users to Linux but Apple is stealing Linux users to OSX. I fail to see what MS has to contribute here."
If/when Apple x86 becomes popular, and MS continues to lose people to Linux and Apple receives Linux users you should look at the circle that's being drawn here in the bigger picture, how does the circle form its complete route? If MS were to sell products to Apple x86 users, many who would likely be coming from MS:Windows and/or Linux.
P.S. I hope you're able to read this, my warm welcome today upon registration has been a gift of bad karma for a few open minded posts. Hooray for free/open thought, eh? (raises glass of I-know-this-will-be-modded-down juice)
"is Apple ready to take the plunge?"
The plunge into selling Wintendo products on Apple x86? Oh yay! While a lot of propeller heads may rejoice, it's still not FOSS/Linux, in fact the timing may be perfect to benefit both Apple/Microsoft all at once in countering Linux on the desktop for the masses. Of course, the claws come out when mentioning this and while I'm not naming names, forced to compete with free, corporations will band together to ride out the storm of competition.
Just remember, Linux/FOSS lovers, every purchase you make supports someone else's philosophies. The road to 360 leads to 666.
Great news, thanks Mark Shuttleworth, we need more people like you.