New Health Risk For Pipe Smokers
ghostsofpompeii
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Fear not fellow pipe smokers. This is not some new health warning from the Surgeon General. This new fangled affliction may actually be mine - and mine alone. Although I think a few of the older pipe smokers among us may have early symptoms .. if not a full blow case as well. They just didn't have a name for it until now.
You've all heard of 'Tennis Elbow' ... well I believe I've recently been stricken with 'Pipe Smoker's Elbow'. It's not a disease common to the clincher who puts a pipe in his (or her) mouth and leaves it there until the smoke is over ... but the fidgety pipe smokers among us who have a tendency to hold the pipe while smoking - with arm cocked - holding the pipe while puffing - then alternating from one hand to another. That's me, a two fisted smoker, smoking out of two sides of my mouth.
Recently I've discovered that while smoking and holding the pipe while resting my elbow on the arm of my chair, upon straightening my arm I get a sharp shooting pain in my elbow. 'Pipe Smoker's Elbow' may not afflict the young and active, but after years of battling gout flare-ups and arthritis it appears the natural motion associated with my pipe smoking habits has aggravated the arthritis in my elbow leaving me with the dreaded 'Pipe Smokers Elbow'.
Soon the aroma of my pipe tobacco will be masked by the god awful menthol stench of "Icy Hot", "Biofreeze" or any one of those creams or lotions used to ease the pain of arthritis. From now on every bowl no matter what blend I'm smoking will leaves the room smelling of Sutliff "Frosty Mint".
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Forget the Icy Hot, and get you some black cherry juice concentrate. It will help to flush the uric acid out of that joint that you wore out moving the pipe from side to side of your mouth. The experts might tell you not to put any vodka in it, but I can tell you that you will enjoy the magic elixir a lot more with a healthy dose of vodka. One of those big 60 ounce bottles of Skol 100 proof should be just the ticket. Make sure you get the unsweetened black cherry juice concentrate, so you don't end up hungover.
If you don't get some relief after the first week, try leaving the vodka out the second week to see if it is killing the performance. If after the second week, if you are still not getting any relief, put twice as much vodka in as you did the first week.
In re: <<Pipe smokers who inhale live as long as nonsmokers>>
But what are they using for lungs?
Inhaling pipe smoke is not unhealthy?
And about <<10 pipefuls (pipesful?) per day>>
Do any of y'all smoke that much?
I do like the part about <<pipe smokers that don’t inhale live longer than non-smokers>>
Just thinkin'...
Thanks for sharing that video.
Good video. Proof again how much we've been lied to for decades.