25 Reasons to Smoke

25 Reasons to Smoke

1)  It makes you look cool like James Bond

2)  If you smoke Camels, you'd walk a mile for one and walking is good for your health.

3)  If you smoke, you always have a lighter to light a woman's cigarette.

4)  Smoking is a statement of individual freedom.

5)   Smoking is great for thinking.

6)  Smoking relaxes a smoker.

7)  The most famous writers, actors, and psychologists smoked.

8)  Cigarettes were once physician tested and approved.  http://www.healio.com/hematology-oncology/news/print/hemonc-today/%7B241d62a7-fe6e-4c5b-9fed-a33cc6e4bd7c%7D/cigarettes-were-once-physician-tested-approved

9) Indians used tobacco as a pain reliever for ear aches, toothaches and as a poultice.

10)  Tobacco is a great insect repellent for the kitchen garden.

11)  Tobacco poultice could also be placed in the mouth to alleviate pain from toothaches.

12)  Indians would mix tobacco and leaves from the Desert Sage plant, or the root of Indian Balsam (or cough root), Leptotaenia Multifida.  They believed this would also help with asthma and tuberculosis.  They typically smoked the leaves to clear out nasal passages.

13)  Toothpaste - In India, powdered tobacco is rubbed on the teeth for cleaning.  This method is still used in India and marketed in stores around the country.

14)  Rattlesnake and Insect Bites - Indians believed that the nicotine in the tobacco would help relieve pain as well as help draw out the poison and heal the snake wound.  After the poison had been sucked out, chewed leaves could be applied to cuts or bound on the bite with a bandage.  This method can also be used when stung by an insect.

15)  According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, those that suffer from mental disorders such as ADHD/ADD, schizophrenia and other disorders may experience positive effects from smoking.  Apparently, doses of nicotine have a short term normalization effect on the EEG (electrical activity in the brain).

16)  Those that suffer from Alzheimer’s can also benefit from doses of nicotine.  According to studies, patients cognitive abilities slightly improved.

17)  You can't do a Bogart impersonation without a cigarette.

18)  Sherlock Holmes smoked tobacco in a pipe and he was a famous detective.

19)  Smoking can help keep you from strangling someone.

20)  Smoking can help you form a connection with your spouse.

21)  Smoking can give you an air of distinction.

22)  Smoking can help you piss off your parents.

23)  Smoking can help keep people from wanting to take your house or car.

24) Many presidents smoke Cuban cigars so if you smoke you could be president someday.

25)  Cigars can be used to stimulate your partner.