vegans

Shannon: They don’t look healthy.  All of them look malnourished.  That isn’t a coincidence.

Chris:  I don’t care if you’re a vegan just don’t act like you’re better than people who are not.  And…stop saying you’re a vegan if you’re not really a vegan.  If you follow up the phrase “I’m a vegan” with “but I eat…” then you are not a fucking vegan.  Like people who say they are vegetarians but they will eat fish and chicken on occasion?  Okay then, you’re not a fucking vegetarian.  That’s like saying “I don’t smoke…unless I drink”…and since you drink every weekend you’re a fucking smoker!  

Hey Shannon you know I’ve never got a speeding ticket…except for the three times I got speeding tickets.

Shannon: One of my roommates is a vegan for the health benefits and then smokes cigarettes.  Makes no sense to me.

I was vegan for a minute and then I was like “oh wait, i miss cheese” so that ended real fast.

Chris:  I’m so glad you mentioned that smoking thing because there are a shit load of vegans out there who smoke weed and regular cigarettes all the time then have the nerve to turn around and preach healthy eating choices.   I don’t smoke but I don’t talk about how I don’t smoke all the time.  I don’t care if someone smokes but if they do all I ask is that they do that shit away from me because I don’t want to smell like smoke.  Also…I could never date a girl that smokes.  I don’t understand how people kiss smokers…fucking barf!

Shannon: Smoking is the greatest of deal breakers. yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck.  I have dated more than one pothead though.  They suck as well, but for different reasons.

Chris:  Good point about the weed. Although I don’t smoke it myself I probably would date someone who did but I would not date someone who smoked cigarettes?  I guess I’m a fucking hypocrite.

Plain Cigarette Packs For UK

The latest from UK is that the government is planning to have absolutely unbranded, plain packaging for cigarettes to make tobacco less attractive for consumers. There will be no logos, colors now but health warnings on the packets.

The British government is also thinking whether to implement a ban on displaying cigarettes in shops so that retailers are forced to sell tobacco under the counter. These proposals will will have an impact on shops definitely.

This plan might be introduced with the national No Smoking Day.

There is no guarantee that all this will actually help in cutting down on smoking. Covering up the displays will pass on high costs on shops.

Movie cigarettes make smokers mentally 'light up'

Previous studies have shown that watching screen smoking activates parts of the brain involved in craving and reward, but the new research is the first to show that priming for the physical act of lighting up becomes automatic too.

"What's particularly novel about these findings is that viewing movie smoking activated regions involved in understanding and planning actions," says lead author Dylan Wagner of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Wagner used an fMRI to scan the brain of 17 smokers and an equal number of non-smokers while they viewed scenes from the film Matchstick Men, which included several clips of actors lighting up. The volunteers were unaware that their reactions to smoking were being analyzed.

Only in smokers did Wagner see activation of parts of the brain vital for goal-directed hand actions, including the anterior intraparietal sulcus and the lateral inferior frontal gyrus. "Moreover, we found that activity in these regions tracked with the hand the smokers use for smoking," he says.

The findings dovetail neatly with the earlier work showing that smokers had increased cravings to smoke after they'd watched movies in which actors had done so.

"This new study connects the biology to the behaviour, and is a big step forward in our understanding. The question is whether the motion picture industry will keep doing big tobacco's dirty work."

A study in 2003 showed that the movie industry was the biggest factor prompting adolescents to begin smoking. And in 2008, a study revealed that tobacco companies in the 1950s had secretly paid big stars including Clark Gable to promote their products.

Source:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19980-movie-cigarettes-make-smokers-mentally-light-up.html