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The benefits of smoking tobacco have been common knowledge for centuries. From sharpening mental acuity to maintaining optimal weight, the relatively small risks of smoking have always been outweighed by the substantial improvement to mental and physical health. Hysterical attacks on tobacco notwithstanding, smokers always weigh the good against the bad and puff away or quit according to their personal preferences. Now the same anti-tobacco enterprise that has spent billions demonizing the pleasure of smoking is providing additional reasons to smoke. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Tourette's Syndrome, even schizophrenia and cocaine addiction are disorders that are alleviated by tobacco. Add in the still inconclusive indication that tobacco helps to prevent colon and prostate cancer and the endorsement for smoking tobacco by the medical establishment is good news for smokers and non-smokers alike. Of course the revelation that tobacco is good for you is ruined by the pharmaceutical industry's plan to substitute the natural and relatively inexpensive tobacco plant with their overpriced and ineffective nicotine substitutions. Still, when all is said and done, the positive revelations regarding tobacco are very good reasons indeed to keep lighting those cigarettes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1306175 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-15
• Released on: 2004-09-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 409 pages

About the Author
Dr. Douglass reveals medical truths, and deceptions, often at risk of being labeled heretical. He is consumed by a passion for living a long healthy life, and wants his readers to share that passion. Their health and well-being comes first. He is anti-dogmatic, and unwavering in his dedication to improve the quality of life of his readers.

He has been called "the conscience of modern medicine," a "medical maverick," and has been voted "Doctor of the Year" by the National Health Federation. His medical experiences are far reaching-from battling malaria in Central America - to fighting deadly epidemics at his own health clinic in Africa - to flying with U.S. Navy crews as a flight surgeon - to working for 10 years in emergency medicine in the United States.

This dedicated physician has repeatedly gone far beyond the call of duty in his work to spread the truth about alternative therapies. For a full year, he endured economic and physical hardship to work with physicians at the Pasteur Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, where advanced research on photoluminescence was being conducted. These learning experiences, not to mention his keen storytelling ability and wit, make Dr. Douglass' newsletters (Daily Dose and Real Health) and all of his books uniquely interesting and fun to read. He shares his no-frills, no-bull approach to health care, often amazing his readers by telling them to ignore many widely-hyped good-health practices (like staying away from red meat, avoiding coffee, and eating like a bird), and start living again by eating REAL food, taking some inexpensive supplements, and doing the pleasurable things that make life livable.

Readers of Dr. Douglass´ books get all this, plus they learn how to burn fat, prevent cancer, boost libido, and so much more. And, Dr. Douglass is not afraid to challenge the latest studies that come out, and share the real story with his readers. He has led a colorful, rebellious, and crusading life! Not many physicians would dare put their professional reputations on the line as many times as this courageous healer has. A vocal opponent of "business-as-usual" medicine, Dr. Douglass has championed patients' rights and physician commitment to wellness throughout his career.

Dr. Douglass comes from a distinguished family of physicians. He is the fourth generation Douglass to practice medicine, and his son is also a physician. Dr. Douglass graduated from the University of Rochester, the Miami School of Medicine, and the Naval School of Aviation and Space Medicine.

Customer Reviews

Blows smoke on theories re: lung cancer
I am only a very occasional smoker, and don't like inhaling other people's fumes. The book raises a lot of questions that need to be asked, and indeed, if you bother to check WHO stats online, there is no clear correlation between rates of lung cancer and rates of smoking. I would like to add my two cents:

1. Bill Dufty's book Sugar Blues mentioned a 1972 BBC documentary that made a connection between tobacco adulterated with sugar and other additives, and additive free tobacco, and lung cancer. Apparently, US makers of cigarettes are not required to list these additives. Virginia style flue cured tobacco is also seen as a possible culprit - it raises the sugar content of the leaf much higher than air drying. Cigar tobacco is often air cured. Many cigarettes are combined air and flue cured tobacco. Russian, Chinese and Taiwanese cigarettes at that time (70's) were made of air dried tobacco, and no correlation between lung cancer and rates of smoking could be found in those countries.

2. I lived in Japan for 8 years. I didn't find the Japanese diet particularly healthy - it consists of a lot of beer drinking and believe in or not, deep fried foods - fried shrimp, oysters, and croquettes are especially popular, and the high salt content leads to mini strokes in the brain and early senility. I also question the so called longevity - I wouldn't be surprised if the Okinawans were taken out of the picture that the death rate might be on a par with the US. Also, Japan has an astronomical rate of stomach cancer - maybe due to the talc they put in the rice to keep it from sticking?

However, it is true that lung cancer rates are lower than the US, even though the Japanese smoke more. Is this due to air cured tobacco?

As for smoking "freedom" in Japan, the government in the early 90's had instituted sanctions against smoking on train platforms, however smoking in private establishments is still in a large part unregulated. There are now smoking and non-smoking sections of restaurants, something which didn't exist prior to the 90's in Japan.

3. I have to wonder why there has been such a war declared on tobacco while commercials advertising both beer and pharmaceuticals seem to have increased tenfold. Moreover, beer commercials are aimed primarily at youth - doesn't anyone consider drunkeness, liver damage and drunk driving to be hazards? Why is this happening? Well, at the risk of sounding goofy, Fritz Springmeier (Bloodlines of the Illuminati) mentioned somewhere that the Reynolds family is on the outs with the other Illuminati families. Maybe the war on tobacco is a turf war between ruling elitists? Why aren't we protecting our children from drunk drivers with the same ferocity? It just seems so strange that we focus so hard on tobacco as a health hazard and ignore alcohol, and pharmaceuticals that can cause sudden death (among other, numerous side effects).