{"id":2464,"date":"2015-08-23T01:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2016-08-05T01:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T00:26:59","slug":"puff-of-smoke-and-all-is-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/puff-of-smoke-and-all-is-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Puff of Smoke and All Is Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone knows smoking is bad, and causes cancer. However, the blanket blame for all lung cancers on it ignores other possible reasons, from genetics, to environment, and leads to an official policy of patients who are infirm on their feet having to walk 200 to 400 yards to the “official” street zone off the hospital grounds to smoke. Emergency responders from nurses and doctors to security who dont have official breaks as in they are still on call when on break have that distance to cover before arriving where they are needed. So, how does it work? Its flouted left right and centre, and proper and right it is so. Encourage by all means folk to stop smoking, stop the new generation taking it up, but dont deny treatment and tests to smokers that they need, as the damage is already done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Merlin<\/a>
Merlin Park Hospital in Galway – 400 yards walk to the road to smoke – many of whom are old and infirm on their feet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Puff of smoke and all is well
\nCancer caused by smoking scientists tell
\nA gullible public who listen without thought
\nAbout the message they have been sold they bought
\nBy scientists who once measured heads and called it true
\nBack then we believed that too
\nThey were the first to state that smoking was bad for your health
\nThe first of a campaign of manipulation by stealth
\nHow that ended up! Lest we forget…
\nThat could happen again, though maybe not just yet…<\/em><\/p>\n

The smearing of tobacco and its blind following is insane
\nNot denying cancer does kill, or deny folks pain
\nWho have buried their dead – as have we, too many
\nThough of ours: tobacco caused cancers? Not any!
\nYet we too have buried young women and men
\nWho join the ranks though they should not be dead
\nFor they were not smokers yet smoking did kill them
\nSomething else caused that instead…<\/p>\n

In a world of fluorides, additives in food
\nAluminium based deodorants, and factory fumes
\nProcessed foods with preservatives and unhealthy diets
\nLack of exposure to cold in artificially warm rooms.
\nStress from work, strain from the lack of it
\nWorry from money and for the want as a need
\nThe body breaks down and cancers remain
\nA smashed immune system allows cancers to feed.<\/p>\n

A people who prefer to marry among those of their own
\nToo much cousin breeding over centuries before
\nGenetic weaknesses that in those more wider bred are stronger
\nNow show their weaknesses, cant take any more.<\/p>\n

Too much drinking of chemical based alcohols
\nChronic sex with many partners, cannabis, and stronger drugs
\nLiving day and night as if they were all the one
\nAt all of this medicine looks and shrugs.
\nNone of this is natural, none of this is good
\nThat these cause many cancers time it will tell
\nBut smoking is a handy smokescreen and an answer for all
\nMedicine gives us a puff of smoke and all is well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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However, the blanket blame for all lung cancers on it ignores other possible reasons, from genetics, to environment, and leads to an official policy of patients who are infirm on their feet having to walk 200 to 400 yards to the “official” …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3052,155],"tags":[3062,3060,3054,1073,3064,3057,3061,3059,3058,3056,3063,3053,3055],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-2","category-death","tag-additives","tag-air-conditioning","tag-alternative-causes-of-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-risk","tag-cousin-marriage","tag-flueride","tag-genetic-weaknesses","tag-high-risk-sex-practices","tag-life-tyle-cancer-risks","tag-pesticides-in-food","tag-smoking-ban","tag-what-causes-cancer","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-DK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2749,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-buck-the-nyeuck\/","url_meta":{"origin":2464,"position":0},"title":"The Buck , The Nyeuck","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"21st May 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently a friend from the Blackwater Poets was diagnosed with Cancer, which we rarely refer to by name, preferring euphemisms such as \"the buck, or \"the big C\". 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