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This is from 1892;
Cigarettes have been analyzed, and most physicians and chemists were surprised to find how much opium is put into them. A tobacconist himself says that the extent to which drugs are used in cigarettes is appalling. Havana flavoring for this same purpose is sold everywhere by the thousand barrels. This flavoring is made from the tonkabean, which contains a deadly poison. The wrappers, warranted to be rice paper, are sometimes made of common paper, and sometimes of the filthy scrapings of rag pickers bleached white with arsenic. What a thing for human lungs.
The habit burns up good health, good resolutions, good manners, good memories, good faculties, and often honesty and truthfulness as well.
Cases of epilepsy, insanity and death are frequently reported as the result of smoking cigarettes, while such physicians as Dr. Lewis Sayre, Dr. Hammond, and Sir Morell Mackenzie of England, name heart trouble, blindness, cancer and other diseases as occasioned by it.
Leading physicians of America unanimously condemn cigarette smoking as one of the vilest and most destructive evils that ever befell the youth of any country, declaring that its direct tendency is a deterioration of the race.
Look at the pale, wilted complexion of a boy who indulges in excessive cigarette smoking. It takes no physician to diagnose his case, and death will surely mark for his own every boy and young man who will follow up the habit. It is no longer a matter of guess. It is a scientific fact which the microscope in every case verifies.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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That is one industrial strength marketing program, 120 YEARS later and they are still able to convince people to start smoking without being lynched for attempted murder.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Okay, but the major hazard identified here seems to be the opium, arsenic and other additives, and the tone of the info seems to be similar to various snake oil merchants of the time. I don't believe it was common knowledge in those days that cigarettes were as harmful as we now know.
There are many people nowadays claiming various things in all directions about global warming, gun ownership, national debt, and numerous other things that will require time to sort out the facts from the nonsense. We don't seem to have consensus on these issues that should be a fairly straightforward analysis.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: I don't believe it was common knowledge in those days that cigarettes were as harmful as we now know.
Obviously not, knowledge was not as easily shared or read as it is now.
However, Twain spent a fair amount of time attacking those who said smoking was a bad habit, writing essays about it.
Anti-smoking groups grew in Europe from the start of the last century (1904 the first properly organized group) with the link between smoking and lung cancer identified, it took hold so well in Germany that when the Nazis came to power Hitler was able to launch his no smoking campaigns.
In 1604 James I of England wrote a treatise expressing his dislike of smoking tobacco, one of the reasons was the danger to the lungs and referenced a number of medical theories of the time.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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H.Brydon wrote: Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
Keep Clam And Proofread
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And it was delicious.
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Great idea. It'll really work.
I mean, you want to make sure that you avoid things that make you think about smoking...
... e.g. ruddy great anti-smoking head-cages.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Which is the best free tool to create concept videos like this?[^]
tinydevs
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Thanks Joan! I think PowerPoint is close enough for the purpose. I've done few videos using Power Point this before. It took some effort but did its job neatly at the end.
tinydevs
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Give up the idea of "free tools", fool
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You are also called Korimon?
To answer you,
I think it's a waste of time.
tinydevs
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Thanks for links. I'll give them a try
tinydevs
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It looks like PowerPoint. If it was MS who put it together I don't see them wanting to use anything else except their own products.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Thanks for links Bassam, The tools look great.
But my current requirement is to simulate Metro-UI type of GUIs for an application.
Like a Proto tool that lets us animate the screens similar to Windows 8 & Windows Phone Apps UIs.
And it should be presented as a video. (please check the video link in my original post).
tinydevs
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After many years of missing out I have started frequenting a local Jazz club http://www.sultanjazzclub.com/[^] where they quite a few local talent as well as some international musicians. I notice the singers have a fantastic ability to sing gibberish, it sound fantastic but do they learn how to sing it, are they taught and is it part of the formal training for singers.
I believe opera singers also do it but call it some foreign language (usually Italian I think).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That "gibberish", as you call it, is mostly scatalogical.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: scatalogical
I thinks that was used in the discussion, it was lot too loud at the time!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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ROTFLMAO!
Louis Armstrong would've laughed too!
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The great Ella Fitzgerald often sang scat[^].
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Thank you, now that was what I was talking about, my google search on scatology did not lead to the content I was looking for .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Singing Gibberish is an innate talent; you have the biological endowment that, in interaction with the environment and your developmental experiences, expresses the genes for it, and enables its development; or, you don't.
But, since you have clearly demonstrated on CodeProject that you write Gibberish fluently, surely you can take comfort from that, and just hum along, even if off-key ?
Genetic scientists tell us we all have transposons (jumping genes) [^]: but, not all of us can be pole-vaulters.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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It's the national language of Gibraltar. Spend a few months there, and you'll pick it up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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