2023-12-20 11:20:22
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Jean-Baptiste Talmont
written on December 20, 2023 at 12:20 p.m. Article published in newspaper nº 119
It is the month of January, the month of Janus, divinity with two faces, one observing the future, the other the past, god of beginnings and endings, god of choices. It’s the perfect month to make cigarettes a memory we wonder why the Ministry of Health chose November to launch the Tobacco-Free Month operation in 2016. November means entering full force into the night, into winter, into the off-season and into anxiety with these pesky celebrations of the dead (All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, Armistice, etc.). It takes the motivation of the damned to inflict on yourself the mood swings caused by quitting smoking at the same time as seasonal depression. So let’s return to the month of January and its good resolutions. Have you decided to quit smoking? Excellent initiative. Already for the wallet. It is announced that the pack of Marlboro will increase on January 1 to €12.50, or for one pack per day, €4,562.50 per year, and for two packs, €9,125. A nice vacation budget that goes up in smoke.
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Then, is it still useful to remind you of the health arguments? They are repeated over and over once more, without much effect. So perhaps the political arguments will resonate with some people. And it is the healthy reading of the book ofOlivier Milleron*, cardiologist of his condition, which can bring water to your mill. Because in terms of a terrible industry, of unspeakable cynicism and cruelty, the tobacco industry wins the highest honors. Discovered in America by the conquistadors, who quickly identified the addictive power of the plant, Tobacco is spread across Europe and becomes a lucrative commercial product. So much so that it is responsible for the emergence of slavery and joint stock companies and therefore the stock market and, a few centuries later, the development of marketing and . Not to mention medicine and doctors who have been excellent influencers.
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From 1730, where the Diafoirus affirmed that in the event of drowning, it was necessary to infuse tobacco through the anus, until 2020 where publications mentioned a possible protective role of tobacco and nicotine once morest Covid-19, it is difficult to identify scientific studies financed by the tobacco industry promoting the therapeutic effects of cigarettes. It should be remembered that at the end of the 19th century, its therapeutic nature was praised for coughs, bronchitis and shortness of breath. Until 1940, cigarettes were even recommended once morest asthma (Asthmador). We bet that reading this book will encourage you to refuse to finance and support this damn industry.
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