In Mexico, the war on drugs was closely tied to US-Mexican relations, with the US exerting significant influence over Mexican drug policy. The Mexican government's efforts to prohibit drugs were often unsuccessful, and the country's drug trade continued to thrive
mexico-US connection. but it also seemed like they didn't really like drugs before?
1940 Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanías in Mexico were key milestones in this process.
For example, in Mexico, the association between the Chinese and opium led to xenophobic attitudes towards drug use.
Mexico, with its own history of demonizing intoxicants and imposing laws to curb their distribution and abuse, was already in compliance with the Hague Convention's mandates and had created domestic laws that were harsher and more far-reaching than what was required by international law.
already prohibited or heavily disliked, even alcohol
Marijuana, on the other hand, was thoroughly demonized and eventually prohibited in 1920 as a drug that threatened to "degenerate the race."
dawn of independence in 1821, Mexico already had a long tradition of anti-drug rhetoric and regulatory mechanisms designed to curb "drug abuse." The situation continued to evolve, with the impermanence and flux of modernity inspiring both widespread concern about the harms of intoxicants and widespread use of them.
In Mexico, the creation of pariah drugs was a long-term process that involved various factors, including colonial conflicts, social prejudice, nationalism, economic interests, state-building, geopolitics, transnational intellectual currents, professional interests, and concerns about drug use and abuse.
arbitrary cultural taboo
weed is commonly used among the old Mexican soldiers it is probable that El Paso became infected from that source.
cholars predict that marijuana smuggling from the US to Mexico will continue if Mexico's laws remain stricter than those in the US.
Traditional folk medical practices in Mexico may have also played a role in the demand for marijuana.
The drug's reputation as a "killer weed" was likely influenced by Mexican ideas about marijuana, which associated it with violence, madness, and crime.
Royal KH Vintage Antique Typewriter Cleaning Wash Glossy Black Enamel Paint Tobacco removal by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
This is a fantastic advertisement for why one shouldn't smoke. The brown is just the part that settled on the typewriter and is just a tiny fraction of what entered the typist's body.
In her markings, Rose Caylor gave us a sense of her husband, the playwright Ben Hecht. In her copy of “A Child of the Century,” which Mr. Hecht wrote, she had drawn an arrow pointing to burns on a page. “Strikes matches on books,” she noted about her husband, who was a smoker.
This is a fascinating bit of reading practice.
Sorkin had been a heavy smoker since high school — two packs a day of Merits — and the habit had long been inextricable from his writing process. “It was just part of it, the way a pen was part of it,” he said. “I don’t want to talk about it too much, because I’ll start to salivate.”
For Aaron Sorkin smoking was a tool that was part of his writing process.
that's a decade off your life
!- smoking : aging impacts - 10 years off your life
how much does alcohol smoking or marijuana or psychedelics actually affect lifespan
!- David Sinclair ; aging researcher interview - aging effects of smoking
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, July 6). RT @mvankerkhove: I’m struggling with how best to stress how fragile the global situation is, so I’ll be blunt: Each week >2.6 million cas… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1412416348676820992
Clift, A. K., von Ende, A., Tan, P. S., Sallis, H. M., Lindson, N., Coupland, C. A. C., Munafò, M. R., Aveyard, P., Hippisley-Cox, J., & Hopewell, J. C. (2021). Smoking and COVID-19 outcomes: An observational and Mendelian randomisation study using the UK Biobank cohort. Thorax, thoraxjnl-2021-217080. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217080
Sam Wang on Twitter: “These are risk levels that you pose to other people. They’re compared with you as—A nonsmoker—A sober driver—A vaccinated person. Unvaccinated? 5x as likely to get sick, for 3x as long. Total risk to others? 15x a vaccinated person Details:https://t.co/ckTWaivK8n https://t.co/PhpLvX2dsm” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 19, 2021, from https://twitter.com/SamWangPhD/status/1438361144759132167
Scientific paper claiming smokers less likely to acquire Covid retracted over tobacco industry links. (2021, April 22). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/22/scientific-paper-claiming-smokers-less-likely-to-acquire-covid-retracted-over-tobacco-industry-links
(20) Carolyn Barber, MD on Twitter: ‘@VincentRK Thank you. Very helpful. Retweeting this which lines up with your UK data. Https://t.co/ECNaGuqiaB’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 24 April 2021, from https://twitter.com/cbarbermd/status/1381407627884695556
Brown, Chris R. H. ‘The Influence of COVID-19-Specific Health Risk Beliefs on the Motivation to Quit Smoking’. PsyArXiv, 16 April 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3csuh.
Designed identity functions ideologically— it is about idealizing an assumed audi-ence and reformatting that audience in an understandable and digest-ible way
Boom, Spectacle.
Designed identity is not a term meant to issue blame to game designers, artists, creators, advertisers, or others involved in the video game indus-try.
Not due to mass media, but an entire culture of consumption and replication. The spectacle.
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Gaiha, S. M., Cheng, J., & Halpern-Felsher, B. (2020). Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019. Journal of Adolescent Health, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.07.002
Jordan, R. E., & Adab, P. (2020). Who is most likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2? The Lancet Infectious Diseases, S1473309920303959. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30395-9
In China, where the mortality rate for men was almost twice as high as that for women, nearly half of men over 15 smoke, compared with just 2 percent of women.
Huge difference! Wow!
Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions
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would like you to stop smoking
Yikes!!