Big Tobacco to smokers: Bend over

Caffeine is as addictive as cigarette-delivered tobacco?
Really?
Time to be showing your work, I think.

 

From one of your liberal whacko "you shouldn't feel good about anything in your life" web-sites........

""Caffeine addiction is for real and to make matters more disheartening for the avid coffee drinker or cola fan, caffeine employs the same effects as alcohol, LSD, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, nicotine, opioids, benzodiazepines, and other major drugs.""

 

Psychiatric diagnoses are categorized by a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV). This manual covers all mental-health disorders for both children and adults. The DSM-IV has a proposed diagnosis of caffeine withdrawal, instead of an official diagnosis, to encourage further research on the range and specificity of caffeine-withdrawal symptoms. A review and analysis of the effects of caffeine abstinence in humans claims that the withdrawal symptoms experienced are proof of physical dependence. These symptoms include headache, tiredness/fatigue, decreased energy/activeness, decreased alertness/attentiveness, drowsiness/sleepiness, decreased contentedness/well-being, depressed mood, difficulty concentrating, irritability, and felling muzzy/foggy/not clearheaded. The study also found that the onset of withdrawal symptoms typically begins 12 to 24 hours after abstinence, with the peak intensity occurring at 20 to 51 hours. The duration of withdrawal symptoms ranged from two to nine days. This is a considerable amount of time that makes it easy to understand why people would have a hard time omitting caffeine from their diet. It was recommended that further research be done to determine how vulnerability to caffeine withdrawal is affected by gender, genetics, personality, behavioral conditioning, drug abuse histories, and other factors.

 

life is short, enjoy it.

 

Getting people hooked on pop wasn't a goal of the cola industry, nah..... only tobacco firms did that.....

""Coca Cola put cocaine in their drink at the turn of the century. It sold extremely well. Some consumers succumbed to the addictive quality of cocaine and started to drink undiluted Cola syrup. When cocaine was banned for use in soft drink the bottlers switched to caffeine. The top selling soft drinks are loaded with caffeine: Coca Cola, 62 mg; Mountain Dew, 49 mg; and TAB, 45 mg. Similarly, instant coffee contains 66 mg per cup.""

 

In our fast-paced society, caffeine addiction is a growing problem. Did you know that 87 percent of adults and 76 percent of children regularly consume caffeine in their diets? Caffeine may give you the extra energy to manage your hectic schedule, but caffeine addiction can contribute to many health problems. People who consume excessive amounts of caffeine on a regular basis suffer from an increase in tolerance, physical cravings, and withdrawal symptoms

 

""Too much caffeine (three cups of strong coffee or more) can lead to insomnia, anxiety osteoporosis, diabetes, ulcers, PMS, stroke, heart disease and may be linked to certain types of cancer.

Other common symptoms are migraines and exhaustion, as caffeine dehydrates and overstimulates your adrenal glands. This leads to an inevitable 'energy crash' - which you may have wrongly interpreted as a cue for another cup! Caffeine abusers say they often feel 'exhausted but edgy' at the same time. Caffeine can simultaneously prevent you getting rest - compounding the effect."

 

""Caffeine addiction is rampant in our society. Caffeine is the only unregulated drug in our food supply. There are no requirements for the quantity of caffeine to be labeled on foods or soft drinks. Most people don't know that their coffee flavored ice cream or yogurt may be supplying a hefty dose of caffeine just when they want to relax at the end of a hectic day. Mothers don't suspect that the root beer and orange soda they are giving their children may also contain caffeine. Students studying late at night don't realize that caffeine restricts the oxygen flow to their brain up to 30% and impairs memory retention. Under the guise of alertness, caffeine has fooled them into thinking they will be better prepared for their exams in the morning. ""

 

I know, I know -- it can't be the same because we don't have liberal wackjobs and bleeding hearts running around the country creating some hysteria about caffeine the way they do tobacco.

And more importantly, I would love to see the outcry if the cola and coffee industries were treated the same way as the tobacco industry has been allowed to be treated by our government and mostly because non-smokers outnumber smokers.

And that is where my original point stands -- It is a very dangerous game to allow the government to decide what industries it can fuck with and tax and regulate to death based on politics and emotion.

 

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2x_Tobacco-Related_Cancers_Fact_Sheet.asp

Please provide similar figures for caffeine-related deaths over the same period.

 

Yes, I have this aversion to saying I'm wrong when I'm not. Silly my.

Now go back up and re-read my post. You obviously failed to comprehend it the first time. I said NOTHING about taking my ball and going home. I wished you a good day despite your failed attempts to pick a fight. I'll be back later to see you argue the wrong side some more.

 

Here we go with this bullshit again -- "smoking-related deaths and diseases" (translation -- anybody who ever blazed up and died, we count in our statistics.......)......

And while we are now reduced to "your vice has killed more than mine".....Heart disease is the leading killer, not lung cancer, and obesity and high cholestorol -- both directly related to poor eating habits and junk food -- are more common reasons for heart disease than smoking, so there you go -- regulate McDonald's -- tax the Big Mac so it is $100......