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KingEbukasBlog:
One more thing , infinite regress is an impossibility and a universe from nothing is idiotic . So I wonder why they think they should ridicule anyone . They believe the universe came from nothing or created itself .

Who says smoking cigarettes is so bad ... well, aside from the World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and every medical board and association on the face of the Earth?

But should smokers be fortunate enough to dodge all that cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the like, they will be uniquely protected — for reasons unexplained by science — against a handful of diseases and afflictions.

Call it a silver lining in their otherwise blackened lungs. Although long-term smoking is largely a ticket to early death, here are (gulp) five possible benefits from smoking. Breathe deep.

1. Smoking lowers risk of knee-replacement surgery

While smokers might go broke buying a pack of cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery. Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked.

The study, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to be morbidly obese.

After controlling for age, weight and exercise, the researchers were at a loss to explain the apparent, albeit slight protective effects of smoking for osteoporosis. It could be that the nicotine in tobacco helps prevent cartilage and joint deterioration.

2. Smoking lowers risk of Parkinson's disease

Numerous studies have identified the uncanny inverse relationship between smoking and Parkinson's disease. Long-term smokers are somehow protected against Parkinson's, and it's not because smokers die of other things earlier. [10 Easy Paths to Self-Destruction]

The most recent, well-conducted study was published in a March 2010 issue of the journal Neurology. Far from determining a cause for the protective effect, these researchers found that the number of years spent smoking, more so than the number of cigarettes smoked daily, mattered more for a stronger protective effect.

Harvard researchers were among the first to provide convincing evidence that smokers were less likely to develop Parkinson's. In a study published in Neurology in March 2007, these researchers found the protective effect wanes after smokers quit. And they concluded, in their special scientific way, that they didn't have a clue as to why.

3. Smoking lowers risk of obesity

Smoking — and, in particular, the nicotine in tobacco smoke — is an appetite suppressant. This has been known for centuries, dating back to indigenous cultures in America in the pre-Columbus era. Tobacco companies caught on by the 1920s and began targeting women with the lure that smoking would make them thinner.

A study published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Physiology & Behavior, in fact, is one of many stating that the inevitable weight gain upon quitting smoking is a major barrier in getting people to stop, second only to addiction.

The relationship between smoking and weight control is complex: Nicotine itself acts as both a stimulant and appetite suppressant; and the act of smoking triggers behavior modification that prompts smokers to snack less. Smoking also might make food less tasty for some smokers, further curbing appetite. As an appetite suppressant, nicotine appears to act on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, at least in mice, as revealed in a study by Yale researchers published in the June 10, 2011, issue of the journal Science.

No respectable doctor would recommend smoking for weight control, given the toxic baggage accompanying cigarettes. This recent Yale study, however, does offer an inkling of hope for a safe diet drug to help obese people control their appetites.

4. Smoking lowers risk of death after some heart attacks

Compared with non-smokers, smokers who have had heart attacks seem to have lower mortality rates and more favorable responses to two kinds of therapy to remove plaque from their arteries: fibrinolytic therapy, which is basically medication; and angioplasty, which removes the plaque by inserting balloons or stents into the arteries.

There's a catch, though. The reason why smokers have heart attacks is that smoke scars the arteries, allowing fat and plaque to build up in the first place. So, one theory as to why smokers do better than non-smokers after such therapies is that they are younger, experiencing their first heart attack approximately 10 years before the non-smoker.

A study published in an August 2005 issue of the American Heart Journal, however, states that age alone is not enough to fully explain the survival differences and that "the smoker's paradox is alive and well." No alternative theories have been put forth since.

5. Smoking helps the heart drug clopidogrel work better

Clopidogrel is a drug used to inhibit blood clots for those patients suffering from coronary artery disease and other circulatory diseases leading to strokes and heart attacks. Smoking seems to help clopidogrel do its job better.

A study by Korean researchers in the October 2010 issue of the journal Thrombosis Research builds upon work by Harvard researchers published in 2009 that demonstrates the benefit of smoking at least 10 cigarettes a day. It seems that something in cigarette smoke activates certain proteins called cytochromes, which convert clopidogrel into a more active state.

Again, no respectable doctor is encouraging patients to start smoking to get the most out of clopidogrel. But this and the other four "benefits" of smoking reveal how tobacco — perhaps not unlike other potentially toxic plants — might contain certain chemicals of real therapeutic value.

olihilistic:

hell wouldn't be bad after all

Immorttal:
imagine if this guy became agnostic or deist and see tgis write up.

thats how i laughed hard the other day while reading some of my comments as a christian.

Immorttal:
My Boss reserve 3 acres of land for me,. Forward your account number for expedite purchase. Due to my love for nature, i will prefer swampy areas just incase the hell gets hotter.

Explorers:
The main thing is, don't go off the bridge.

Fohlah:
To the poster







receive Brain in Jesus name

OneMoreSoul:
Where will I spend my eternity?
Hell or Heaven

Hell is a place of pain n anguish.
Heaven is a lovely place.

How do I know these?
My Bible tells me so.

I will by God's grace be delving into an exposition on these two eternal homes for all.

Starting off with HELL..
These are the questions we will be trashing out:

Is HELL real?
What are the Qualifications into HELL?
How does HELL look like? and
Will I end up in HELL?

MAY GOD GUIDE US... AMEN

bolt000:
Isnt the 'lack of belief' something you choose to 'believe' due to insufficient evidence, you get my point? fyi i'm also an atheist, no need to come at me.

Lennycool:
That's against the rules na they did not qualify.
Not unless they bribed there way into heaven.
Even angels body no be firewood

CHARLOE:
just wondering if dark matter has got any satirical cartoon like this.
@hardmirror, if there's any, plz post links

eyinjuege:
And I'm sure you're atheist. *rolls eyes*
He may have bought and paid for the fish, but that doesnt mean its his money he used.
He might have been sent to get big fish because he knows where they sell it.

If you'd bothered to read the body of his post, he said categorically he was going to enjoy his own share meaning he didn't own all the fish, but is entitled to a part of it.

Azumoney44:
I Did My Self, Its For Engagement Special Cooking

Harinholar:
ur question funny die!!!! how did u expect him to answer that...?

eyinjuege:
He never said he paid for them.

Rather said he was going to enjoy his own share.

This is really eja nla

Lennycool:
Haba Hahn only you is monopolizing all the resources in hell.
You don carry this your naija life reach there

I hope you know Nigerian politicians are already there and more will join. They will certainly give you a challenge.

SIRmanjar:
The fine boy be fine lieya..Im say im buy d fish but im no look like person wey fit buy d fish..Even rich family man go tink am twice..All those fishes u see dere iz worth hundreds of thousand..so wot iz a yung boy doing with dem..abi im wan use am host new yam festival?

Azumoney44:
1500 Each

Azumoney44:
1500 Each

VeloCipes:
My dad is a pastor, and its safe to say I grew up with a strong christian background. We had a church and I was never interested in the whole church razzmatazz, this was probably based on my person, as I don't like being in a crowd for too long or so I thought. After I finished my secondary education, for some reasons, mainly educational, I had to separate from my parents.


Just like every other people I have always prayed and hoped for certain things which never came to pass, and for that reason I stopped believing in the existence of God, took it a step further when I stopped going to church. I was living everyday as it came, and believed I would have to work for whatever I desired.


I've always known that a person who doesn't believe in a supreme being is an atheist, I played with the dictionary a lot when I was much younger and I learnt that word unconsciously. Due to my religious upbringing I could not actually deny the existence of God completely and at the same time I was flirting with atheism.


In my mind, I just wanted proof to my doubts. I consistently seek answers. Until about 3 years ago I came across the word "Agnosticism" and it clicked - This is who I am. An Agnostic is a person who is not sure whether or not God exists or who believes that we cannot know whether God exist or not.


Can also mean someone who continuously seek to find answers to God's existence.

mrmrmister:
Where's great ife?
Africa's most beautuful campus

pembisco:
Grow up pls, you'll have claimed the op just got random pics claiming he bought the fishes.

troylaurenz:
These fishes were caught in Lagos, Nigeria and not IMPORTED.

This country has been blessed so well, it is a pity we import everything we consume these days.


Well, let me enjoy my own share of this eja


cc @lalasticlala

hopefulLandlord:
*He realises the land had been willed to my daughter*

*He cries that he killed me for nothing*