Tuesday
Monday
New Russian Smoking Law
Not long
ago one of my good friends in science told me that in order to accomplish what
I have planned in changing smoking laws and smoking culture I will have to
convince some top dogs around that they can make or save a big money on that.
Today we can witness how the top authorities in Russia have calculated an
astronomic figure they can save if their best professionals would not die from
smoking in the most productive age.
What are
they planning? Basically they are pressing people into smoking rooms. If they
are not able to provide a smoking room, they give a nicotine pill to smokers
not to smoke right now. As an example of this they use trains they ride for
many hours or even days non stop.
Another big
thing in their new smoking law is to make smoking invisible on TV and other
media. And on the other hand they will make the smoking aftermath very graphic on
the cigarette packs.
Sunday
How Can We Nicely Help Most People Drop Smoking?
Let me
first state human right for having bad habits. My main idea was to make
non-smokers happy and at the same time make a good way for smokers keep their
habit. Let us go on to consider how we can help those smokers who want to drop
smoking and also how is it possible to cause most smokers want to drop smoking.
This fact
that smoking habit is purely chemical is known by most medical doctors. There
are simple ways to regain the normal level of acid-base balance. If we can
produce a very cheap medication and give it to everyone who agrees to take it,
then our only task will be to convince people to go ahead.
Is It Realistic To Make A Smoke Detector For iPhone?
This week I
spent in consideration about the implementation of massive smoke detection and
smoke dose calculation. For the time being I think that the best way is to
implant real small smoke detectors into iPhones and iPads. Why? Because we need
something dear to people always connected to the Internet.
Among my scientific
friends there are some nano-technology majors who claim being able to produce
smoke detectors as small as I wish. They even share something about principles
of automated detection of explosives. I do not think you need to know the details
of how they do it, but it is basically the same idea I have for smoking.
Monday
How Smokers Cheat Social Security
Would you
like to know how casino games work and how you can cheat to win a fortune in
one night?
Social
security is a big lottery where everyone pays and not everyone gets to use it,
or at least not equally uses it. At least in my country, large part of social
security pot goes to insuring everyone’s health. Now take two people who are
very different in taking care of healthy habits. In particular, one is smoking
and the other does not.
I simply
cannot stand taking social money for mending health issues of those who ruin
their health on purpose by indulging into excessive smoking and drinking.
Wednesday
Smoke Dosimeter
The more I
consider about public health in relation to smoking, the more this idea comes
to my mind: what if we make a smoke dosimeter in the same way it is made for
radiation? We need to know how much people actually spend time in the cigarette
smoke and how much they are getting sick with various diseases.
Using smoke
dosimeters we can find out what kind of diseases are really smoke related and
what kind of diseases can be treated with smoking on the other hand.
Moreover,
we can compare health of people with the same smoking hours in case of active
smoking and in case of second-hand smoking.
We can
study also how harmful the cigarette smoke is to people of various ages,
genders, professions, climates, etc…
Monday
Detecting Smoke Online In Real Time
I can
believe that the time is coming when everyone will be online all the time. What
will it be: an iPhone, a universal plastic card, an implant? Whatever it is it
should also have a smoke detecting capability.
As soon as
one of our sensors detects smoke in the air it must wake us up and instruct us
to fight the fire as early as possible. It should also alarm the closest fire
fighting unit according to GPS in case we are not capable of putting the fire
off on our own.
The most interesting
here is what resolution we will write about the incident! If a child got into a
smoking zone, this should be considered a serious law violation. A child’s
detector should also send signals both to his parents and the police. Parents
should immediately react by calling or coming there. Police should record the
alarm and investigate what happened, who is guilty, and what to do to prevent
it in the future.
Thursday
Smoking At Home
Smokers
should have a right to smoke where they live unless there are other people
living there with them. It is good if smokers will have to get a notarized permission
from all the occupants of their home to show that everyone feels good for them
to smoke in certain rooms at any time.
People like
me would feel to limit their relatives’ smoking by one room with obligation to perform
air detoxification after each time they smoke there. Another good idea is to turn
a red light bulb on in the next room for warning to me not to enter the smoke
room while a smoker is using it.
Wednesday
Tobacco Free Kids
Did you know that more than 50 percent of
children ages 3 through 11 had recent exposure to cigarette smoke? Why is this?
Because children naturally trust their parents, but the smoking parents betray
this naive trust.
If by now you are not convinced to guard
children from smoking, I have nothing more to tell you. I appeal only to sober
parents and citizens to take action for changing the smoking laws today.
I do not even care for you yourself to stop
smoking if you are not ready to that. Keep smoking if you wish, but keep all of
our children smoke free, completely tobacco free. Use smoking rooms, smoking
booths, smoking rebreathers … and cleanse the air right after you are done.
Saturday
Which Cigarettes Your Baby Likes The Best?
Most
smokers are buying their cigarettes because of their taste and price. The price
factor for babies is irrelevant and the only consideration babies would have is
how the smoke tastes.
I saw some
parents smoking while strolling. It looks horrible! I wish to ask them this one
question: Which Cigarettes Your Baby Likes The Best? to awaken their conscience
and help them realize that they are raising a little smoker with his own taste
for cigarettes.
Now they
have a baby, but in five years this baby will step into the school system and
come out of any control. This little organism already has a smoking habit and
knows which cigarettes are good.
Second-hand
smoker is a smoker. An addicted first grader will find his cigarette because he
needs it and a week law of not selling cigarettes to minors will not stop him.
What will stop him? His parents right now should stop smoking in his presence
that he would completely forget the taste of smoke.
Thursday
Protection For Smokers’ Children
When I see
someone with a stroller and a cigarette my heat cries to help those poor
children doomed to suffer from regular second-hand smoking with their parents.
Some
smokers argue that smoking is not a bad thing because it is not forbidden by
law. Then I am asking why it is written on cigarettes that smoking is harmful
and killing? Why it is forbidden to sell cigarettes to minors? Why they do not
teach that wonderful skill to their children?
Wednesday
Window Smoking
It appears polite
and caring when someone smokes into his window. He does not want his apartment smell
too much and his relatives suffer too much. Yes, BUT! There are 3 families
living on the ground floor right below me and all of them have that one habit
to step out to smoke or smoke into their window. Guess where that smoke goes
from there…
In the
climate I live in you have to have your windows open most of the time if not
all the time. If in the summer all of the windows are open, the place is quite
livable. Sometimes you can feel a nice breeze from one window to another, but
not every time it is pleasant and you already know why! Smoke comes without any
prior warning…
Why do I
need to stop everything I am doing and go around the house finding the smoking
window? Why while a smoker enjoys fresh outside air do I need to sit in a
smoked room or with windows closed in the heat (or both if I did not react immediately)?
Why do I need to wait till that smoker/those smokers are done to reopen my
windows? Why my small children need to be poisoned due to their inability to
close the window in the children’s room?
Sunday
Smoking Consensus
“i totally
agree even tho iam a smokermyself”
This is a
reply from one of my Twitter followers. This is a reply that we all need to
voice to change the current wild situation with smoking and second-hand
smoking. We just have no time to dream about all people stopping their smoking
habit. All sober people should rise up to save innocent lives right now,
especially lives of our children.
Saturday
A Smoking Human Or A Dragon?
How to
understand who is a dragon? Very simple: dragons exhale smoke and fire all the
time. Dragons have such a smoking nature and it is useless to ask a dragon not
to smoke in a certain place.
What helps
to dragons not to smoke is not a negotiation, but hunting. Whenever a new law
comes into action, some are not happy with it and they are not going to abide
according to it unless there is force behind this law. Some smokers are willing
not to smoke only in gas stations. What to do?
There are two
ways to make it work for dragons. Police can start paying close attention to
smoking. On the other hand public efforts can be even more effective. For example,
smoking can be considered as a wild fire and fire extinguishers can be used by
anyone to stop it.
Friday
Are You A Caveman? Stop It!
Let me tell
you something about the UK smoking law. It forbids smoking indoors. To open a
smoking room in an airport there is just illegal. All smoking should be done
outside.
What does
it mean for non-smokers? Anyone who does not want to be a second-hand smoker
should sit in his cave most of his life. Every time he wants to eat he holds
his breath, steps outside to hunt something down, and quickly drags it back
into his cave.
This
situation is not fair at all. The smoking law in the UK needs to be reversed to
forbid smoking outside and to let building smoking booths and smoking rooms
with the rest of indoor territory still free from smoking.
Thursday
Smoking Room As A Sign Of Mutual Respect
Smokers and
non-smokers are able to live together in peace if the law will take care of
each party’s interest with equal respect. Non-smokers will be happy to forget
about tobacco smoke and smokers will be happy to be able to smoke at any time.
Smoking rooms are a practical solution already implemented in a limited way
today.
Wednesday
Smoking With A Personal Filter
For some
smokers it can be more pleasant to smoke by themselves without going to a
smoking booth. It can be a personality issue or trying to get only the smoke of
their favorite taste. In those cases smoker should take care of his smoke the
same way dog owners should take care of their dog’s poo.
How can a
personal filter look like? Like a gas mask. Usual gas mask is taking air from
outside and filters it out to make it good for breathing, but this gas mask
should do the opposite also – filter the air coming out not to let the smoke
poisons out.
Tuesday
Smoking Air Pollution – Filter The Smoke
Air
pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological
materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or
cause damage to the natural environment or built environment, into the atmosphere.
Everyone is aware of factories pumping smoke into the air, but have anyone
considered the personal cigarette smoke we ourselves responsible for?
Numerous
studies were conducted about diseases caused by smoking. To make smoking “healthier”
cigarettes are made with a filter. What if we go on with this filter idea and
make a cigarette with such a filter that does not let the smoke out to the
atmosphere? If it is not possible to make such filters for individual
cigarettes, we can surely equip smoking booths with the best possible solution.
Monday
Smoking While Riding A Bike
Not often
you can see one riding a bike with a cigarette in his mouth. Yesterday I spotted
such one, which brings me back to my former idea of deep smoking. Those who
want to smoke their tobacco really hard should try physical exercises while
smoking.
Sunday
Smoking Harassment
In one of recent
responses on Twitter my new follower said that he does not want to have any
smoking laws because it will lead to harassment. Instead he suggested to me to
get into another hot subject called emission. I hope to make him happy by
considering lowering emission of nicotine and other poisons in tobacco smoke.
What is the
harassment he is worrying about? He does not like it when I ask him not to
smoke next to my baby. Is that all? Or else I can be more aggressive asking if
he is sure he wants to try smoking next to my baby. This implies a possible
action on my part. At this point I wish to ask what action is appropriate when
somebody is sending a harmful substance right into your lungs and the poison is
absorbed to reach your brain in ten seconds? Is that harassment, nuisance, pestering,
annoyance, stalking, irritation, aggravation, or persecution?
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