If I had a child I would rather see him/her smoking than on any of these drugs.

The indoctrination--oops, I mean public health education--of teens on smoking shows how people rely on these campaigns no matter what is the contempt.
I'm sure that when they find out a way to profit from cigarettes an indroct... a public health education will be reporting how nicotine is good to calm down the stress and many other benefits.
Does anybody knows when cigarettes stop being profitable or who profit with cigarettes sales?
I always ask myself why this campaign was so successful since these people have no concern with HEALTH whatsoever.

Ha!! The Harvard crowd is sort of caught in a Catch-22 here. The Papolos' book "The Bipolar Child" 2nd edition, in the preface, gives a warning on ADHD drugs and antidepressants. Seems those drugs are making children "Bipolar" according to their statement.

So where does the Harvard group draw the line between who is ADHD and who is "Bipolar"?

This study really seems to be Junk Science. Heaven forbid, too, that a teen should ever smoke a cigarette rather than take an antidepressant, an ADHD drug or an antipsychotic and/or mood stabilizer. Do you realize what this would do to Pharma!

Hi Ana,

The stop smoking campaign actually started out as a health campaign back in 1964 with the Surgeon General's report. Then, there were some who realized how much money could be made by forcing people to quit smoking. Different foundations were payings lots of money to those who contributed to the stop smoking groups.

Lawyers, states collecting big bucks off the extra taxes on cigs, the "anti" groups, etc. - all were making a fortune. One state even raised cigs a dollar a pack with the idea it would go to fund education but it turned out, in a big scandal, that actually three people had received all of this extra tax money.

Of course, Big Tobacco fought back. They even worked on developing a cigarette with less tar but same amount of nicotine. It would have cut deaths rates from cigs in half [two and three-fourths years off one's life vs. five and one-half years.] But the "anti's" would have none of it.

Still, smoking was considered a private choice. Unlike the prescription drugs, people weren't smoking because their docs had given them a pack of cigarettes.

It was when Pharma realized that they could make billions off stop smoking products that things began to change. This was in the early 1990's. Pharma figured that people would only stop smoking if smoking was stigmatized so they cooked up a bunch of studies to show the dangers of second hand smoke. All of these studies were padded. Suddenly, the Government did not allow smoking on planes, buses, trains, in the workplace, etc.

The "anti's" even started a hate campaign against smokers. This is why one-fifth of the population is in hiding. They hate being hated.

The unfortunate side effect of the stop smoking campign, though, was that almost everyone quit smoking and started taking pescription drugs instead. Their weight increased and their quality of life went down. So even after the massive campaigns of the early 1990's, the death rate has not decreased because people are so fat and nervous.

What is the situation in Brazil with regard to smoking?

Self-medication is a common theme with ADHD. Smoking seems to be the central focus of self-medication regimens.

The fact that nicotine allays common distraction and other scatter-brain problems comes as no surprise to me. I just wonder if the negative physical ramifications are worth the cleansing of my brain's closet.

Don

in my experience people in clinics and hospitals tend to smoke like my car on the freeway in the middle of a heat wave. part drugs, part disorder, part da company. i'm an ex smoker and, personally, i much prefer speed over cigaretts. lol.
p.s. Amen on the "protective effects", Philip

Honest to God these guys just don't stop, hell they've taken over the world worse than Walmart and Starbucks. But no one seems to notice the pharmaceutical industry and it's corruption. We seem as a society to care about coffee beans hand picked by children more, and no one gets how Walmart is the new status quo for American Welfare--pay ppl cheap wages, run the little shops out of town, and no one ever moves up the ladder, keeping the workers at poverty level.

Wilens and Biederman are getting away with SO much, just like Nemeroff, Yale University, all of them that are being investigated. The APA, I mean Grassley won't be able to keep up, then of course the Government isn't all that clean either.

While I despise they payoffs and the wink wink nudge nudge that goes on by some of these people I also don't assume everyone is doing the same. I look at neuroscience and see this article http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708171545.htm

I then look at article like this next link where they actually made a program that reduced that amount of people being diagnosed and reduced the amount of people being prescribed medications.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080707081830.htm

Personally I think they need to take huge steps in stopping the payoffs, ghost writing, and my pet peeve direct to consumer marketing.

Rosie,
I only saw your explanations today.
Thank you for the explanations. Just as I supposed.
Same here.
Smoking= out Champix/Wellbutrin= in