The Sunday Mail
RASTAFARIANS do not deal with drugs whatsoever.
Ibo Foroma
Tobacco is a toxin and despite enjoying unjustified legal status, the substance is extremely poisonous nonetheless.
Globally speaking, responsible people must hasten their pace in taking this poison off market shelves. Lives are being lost on a daily basis while millions of dollars in revenue are being made.
Truly, if the principles of business dictate that “we cancer one another” just to make money, then they must be revised.
The World Health Organisation, somewhat a toothless bulldog on the subject, compiled the following shocking and nerve wracking statistics.
Tobacco kills half of its users and the annual figure is an average of more than six million human beings dead. More than five million die from direct smoking and more than 600 000 die from indirect passive attacks.
Nearly 80 percent of the world’s three billion ignorant or basically suicidal smokers reside in low and middle-income countries. Forces do not want poor people to suffer long boring lives hence they are allowed and encouraged to detonate themselves.
Tobacco, accurately coined tobacco-losis by a chosen intelligent few, is the leading cause of death internationally. 100 million deaths were caused by the poison in the 20th century alone.
With special thanks to undaunted resistance and resilience from high-income earners resulting from this form of mass exploitation, the trend is continuing. Because a marginal few will to live lavishly, one billion lives are going to be lost this 21st century alone.
The cancer stick is the single greatest cause of preventable deaths. It causes heart attacks, strokes, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, peripheral vascular disease, atherosclerosis and hypertension.
The list is not yet half way through: the poison contains more than 50 carcinogenic and teratogenic substances. Cancers of the lungs, kidneys, larynx, mouth, blood, head, neck, oesophagus, pancreas and stomach occur as a result.
Smoking mothers contaminate their unborn babies. It is better had they not created them in the first place. Definitely their risk of being born malformed is intentionally amplified beyond alarming levels. Miscarriages are standard, and if lucky premature births to ill and dying offspring is common.
The poisonous gas increases the chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome by 1,4 to 3 times as much. If you want to abort your unborn, dose yourself with tobacco.
A developing foetus is intentionally suffocated by its mother. Low birth weight to impoverished addicted babies follows.
Do not forget, others are celebrating high earnings as a consequence. In many cases, big time earners never smoked and will never voluntarily inhale the toxicant.
Cervical cancer need not escape mentioning. There is some evidence suggesting an increased risk of contacting myeloid leukaemia, squamous cell sinonasal cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer.
Cancers of the gall bladder, adrenal gland, small intestines and various childhood cancers included. Perhaps this explains why we must rename cigarettes cancer-sticks.
Tobacco also causes thromboangitis obliterans, the acute inflammation and thrombosis (clotting) of arteries and veins in the hands and feet. The list does not end here,continuing does not make more sense than quitting and banning.
Instead, Rastafarians relate with the original “Christmas tree”, the tree of life and a healing of the nation as mentioned in the book of Revelation.
On record although illegal and controversial, though no logical reason supports this misconception, no casualties have ever been recorded against the herb throughout all of mankind’s history.
Albeit popularly known for smoking, the tree of life and healing of the nation is the most versatile plant on the planet.
It produces way over 250 000 products and by-products covering all basics of life and namely food, clothing, shelter, fuel, and medicines for all sorts of ailments. It can and does cure cancer.
Serious consideration must be taken towards prohibiting the demon and releasing the saint from unnecessary incarceration.
Before then and only then, indeed Babylon will collapse, Zion will be established and Rastafarians will shout, Hallelu Jah Rastafari. Selah!
