As fellow blogger of Vinography Alder Yarrow writes…’Like many such medicines, tobacco began its life as a gift from the gods, to whom it would return with messages from the living when smoked. From dark pitch to burnt caramel to sweet fruit, and always laced with wood, the smell of cured tobacco makes its way into many wines, most often thanks to wood itself. The toasted oak of a barrel can lend Cabernet, in particular, a deep note of pipe tobacco, shown best as a grace note rather than a blast of flavor. At its best, tobacco's richness marries with the darker qualities of fruit to add spice and mystery, if not a bit of nostalgia, to a glass of red. Sounds like it’s better to drink it than to smoke it.’
Various medical studies have proven that wine in moderation is good for your health. Good for your heart in fact! There are antioxidants in red wine called polyphenols may help protect the lining of blood vessels in your heart and there is a polyphenol called resveratrol that has gotten major attention because it .helps prevent damage to blood vessels and reduces the LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol) and prevents blood clots. Wow!
So let's keep an open mind...
According to two CBS news articles on August 12 and 15th and recently other very high profile News outfits such as USA Today, NBC and Web-MD. There are a number of Ebola treatments and vaccine in development, and one comes from tobacco plants grown in specialized greenhouses at another operation, Kentucky BioProcessing, in Owensboro, Kentucky.
That experimental treatment, called ZMapp, uses proteins
called antibodies, and is designed to inactivate the Ebola virus and help the
body kill infected cells. It hasn't been tested in people but had shown promise
in animal tests, so it was tried in three people sickened by Ebola in West
Africa - two U.S. aid workers, who appear to be recovering, and a Spanish
missionary priest, who later died.
Q: Why isn't ZMapp being tested more widely to find out if
it works in people?
A: There's not enough available. The antibodies are grown
inside tobacco plants, and then extracted and purified, a slow process. U.S.
officials have estimated that only a modest amount could be produced in two or
three months, unless some way to speed production is found.
Tobacco seems to be the cure to the Ebola virus. So let’s
get on with it and fix the issue.
This is a new Generation and a new time they need to help
push through all the gridlock thinking.
Everybody know, there continues to be reporting about how
bad tobacco is for you and the lawsuits continue. There is money to be made on
the issue; Nevermind a person’s right to choose and the ‘Pleasure Police’…But
that’s a whole other story. People like tobacco as much as people like wine or chocolate;
period.
There’s no doubt to smoking’s certain calming and medicinal
effects. Not to mention it does murky up the lungs and has negative addictive
features such as a link to Cancer which has not been cured yet. Because the
negative health effects were not initially known, the issue continues to be
exploited.
But now that there is news that Tobacco is the successful cure
to the the Ebola virus. It may be time to give tobacco it’s due.
According to a cool and informative CNN news article years
ago; tobacco was first used by the folks of the pre-Columbian Americas. Native
Americans actually developed the plant and smoked it in pipes for pleasure,
medicinal and ceremonial purposes. They were on to something way back then.
Christopher Columbus brought a few tobacco leaves and seeds
with him back to Europe, but most Europeans didn't get their first taste of
tobacco until the mid-16th century, when adventurers and diplomats like
France's Jean Nicot -- for whom nicotine is named -- began to popularize its
use. Tobacco was introduced to France in 1556, Portugal in 1558, and Spain in
1559, and England in 1565.
The first successful commercial crop was cultivated in
Virginia in 1612 by Englishman John Rolfe. Within seven years, it was the
colony's largest export. A lot of our major leaders smoked and or grew tobacco
from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Barak Obama over the next two
centuries; the custom and growth of tobacco as a popular past time and cash
crop which partly fueled the demand in North America for slave labor and todays
hemorrhaging of our legal system.
Cigarettes, which had been around in crude form since the
early 1600s, didn't become widely popular in the United States until after the
Civil War and the invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine; sponsored
by tobacco baron James Buchanan "Buck" Duke, in the late 1880.
That’s essentially the origins…
Truthfully, he negative health effects of tobacco were not
initially known; in fact, even back then most early European physicians
subscribed to the Native American belief that tobacco can be an effective
medicine. Which now we know is true and always has been true.
Let’s do all we can. Let’s make the cure to Ebola…and use
the tobacco for its medical properties; this gift from the gods and help save as many people as we can! Sure we can make it controversial, but why??? Put your paradigms to the side...
We can save lives!
We can save lives!
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