In before thank you for smoking

But can it halt the damage of a cigar burn?

Do I stutter?

One protein, called GM-CSF, appears to control the progress of a common smoker's ailment, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Sadly, GM-CSF promotes brain cancer. The good news is that there is this other protein...

Look, you guys keep up your talking and Vernon's gonna come right in here. I gotta meet this Saturday, and I'm not gonna miss it on account of you boneheads.

Cool. Now can I grind up the pill and roll it into my smokes to save time?

Great headline.

subby, take a bow.

Also, I lol'd pretty hard at your headline, subby. I read it in Judd Nelson's voice.

Lessens emphysema in mice. No mention of lung cancer.

Of course, the news will be, "Smoking No Longer Harmful!!!"

FishyFred: +1 for a great headline

+1 for Ruby Rhod reference

+1 for the flamewar about cigarettes that may or may not happen

-1 because I'm still not going to start smoking because I don't want to smell like ass.

Too late. You also sound fat.

jehovahs witness protection: FishyFred: +1 for a great headline

+1 for Ruby Rhod reference

+1 for the flamewar about cigarettes that may or may not happen

-1 because I'm still not going to start smoking because I don't want to smell like ass.

Pooping causes the ass smell.

Maybe the ass puts the smell on the poop as it passes through.

This also works other kinds of smoke and not just tobacco smoke, right?

RIGHT???

jaytkay: Lessens emphysema in mice. No mention of lung cancer.

Of course, the news will be, "Smoking No Longer Harmful!!!"

FTFA:
He cautioned that the results were only short-term, and that they have yet to see if there is long-term benefit for smokers who block GM-CSF. He added that his team's research focused only on COPD, not cancers and other diseases caused by smoking.

EighthundredmillionthFarker: One protein, called GM-CSF, appears to control the progress of a common smoker's ailment, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Sadly, GM-CSF promotes brain cancer. The good news is that there is this other protein...

Promotes? Strike that. Reverse it.

Inflammation has a purpose. Blocking inflammation has its consequences, too. Especially long term suppression.

EighthundredmillionthFarker: Sadly, GM-CSF promotes brain cancer.

Actually, BLOCKING GM-CSF is what TFA is about. So we reduce brain as well as lung cancer.

EVERYBODY WINS!

EighthundredmillionthFarker: One protein, called GM-CSF, appears to control the progress of a common smoker's ailment, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Sadly, GM-CSF promotes brain cancer. The good news is that there is this other protein...

I dont know why.
She swallowed that GM-CSF protein;
perhaps she'll die?

risc averse: EighthundredmillionthFarker: One protein, called GM-CSF, appears to control the progress of a common smoker's ailment, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Sadly, GM-CSF promotes brain cancer. The good news is that there is this other protein...

Promotes? Strike that. Reverse it.

Inflammation has a purpose. Blocking inflammation has its consequences, too. Especially long term suppression.

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on Fark.

/srsly, last time I make up medical sh*t to try to be funny

risc averse: Inflammation has a purpose. Blocking inflammation has its consequences, too. Especially long term suppression.

True that. Then again, when I'm 80 years old and suffering from COPD, I'll be willing to take the risk that I might develop brain cancer if it means that I can breathe well enough to yell at those damned kids on my lawn.

I'd smoke food if I could.

stevenboof: People that don't like being poisoned are wrong.

/DIAF non-smokers!


I am a non-smoker but I still poison myself, the world is not black and white.

love the comment: "The real accomplishment here is that we've somehow managed to produce mouse sized cigarettes, and trained mice to smoke!"

Kazan

/no bring on the smokers attempting to pretend that this means that people who don't like being poisoned are wrong.
//EABOD smokers


All I want is to pick my own poison. If someone else gets to pick my poison, I reserve the right to do the same.

I chose urushiol for them. A light spray in the air around them.

/Hot like a cigarette burn.

jaytkay: Lessens emphysema in mice. No mention of lung cancer.

Of course, the news will be, "Smoking No Longer Harmful!!!"

You win the prize!

Simply interefering with one disease-causing process is not the same as rendering crigarettes safe. Your inflammatory response protects you from infection and cancer. In some cases where the reponse is abnormal, it may be possible to attentuate it without doing even more harm.

In cases where the response is due to an major insult like smoke inhalation, you may create other problems in the long term with a treatment like this. Besides the fact that quitting smoking is a little simpler and cheaper than getting what these mice got in the lungs.

jdemanon: love the comment: "The real accomplishment here is that we've somehow managed to produce mouse sized cigarettes, and trained mice to smoke!"

I was trying to find a picture to go along with that comment, found this instead:



Would be pretty damn sweet if it worked.

/hot

Torrentius: I'd smoke food if I could.

Not the point. It might not be brain cancer, but long term immuno-suppression (20+ years) could and probably would have wide ranging problems. Look at all the problems with other immuno-suppressants. How about 30 mg Prednisone a day for a decade or so?

/Its not nice to mess with Mother Nature

Sorry T - wrong quotee....

Judd Nelson was farkin harsh in that movie.

Yo wastoid. You're not gonna blaze up in here.

pxlboy: ooh, a smoking thread.

the anti-smoking crowd can STFU

You know what else we can do? Jog more than 40 feet.

I'm not a smoker, never have been. but I really don't get all the smoker hate from some people. before smoking bans in my area there were already many enterprising establishments that went smoke free to attract customers that don't like smoke smell and such. what's wrong with that solution? if someone wants to cite increased costs to tax payers in addressing health problems I'll go find the stats that show lifetime health care costs for smokers are lower since they die early. until then I'll just [citation needed] myself :p

the hate seems irrational though, really. why should we care if someone makes a conscious decision to potentially harm themselves? if they are adult and informed (who couldn't be these days with all the PSAs) but decide they enjoy smoking enough that it's worth it to them, fine.

Yay! Now the critics who like to throw marijuana in the same boat as cigarettes have got nothin'.

NOTHIN' I TELL YA! Muuhahahhahaha

Happy Friday ^_^

I gots a job and I gots shiat to do...

Likes where this is going...

not collecting stamps: pxlboy: ooh, a smoking thread.

the anti-smoking crowd can STFU

You know what else we can do? Jog more than 40 feet.

I do 45 minutes to an hour of cardio every morning.

/smoker

Dateline 2015: This drug causes horrible ass cancer.

Fark yes! Now to get a pill to cure cirrhosis, and I'm golden!

silentneep: not collecting stamps: pxlboy: ooh, a smoking thread.

the anti-smoking crowd can STFU

You know what else we can do? Jog more than 40 feet.

I do 45 minutes to an hour of cardio every morning.

/smoker

It takes you that long to jog the 40 feet?

What exactly is a banner farking day? I've never heard anyone say this in real life, only this movie.