Are the Irish habits of cigerettes and alcohol a direct link between the deady illnesses and poverty in 1938?
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Why not compare it to the huge numbers of alcohaul and cigarette consumers among America's lower class population. But which came first? Do the poor use booze and smokes to help deal with the emotional pain of being poor, or are they poor because the blow their money on booze and smokes instead of working harder? And of course the health links are self perpetuating. Both habits lessen life expectancy and supress the immune system, causing more missed work due to illness and speeding the descent of poverty.\n\nJust some thoughts to help you along.
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The death rate for each of these conditions was astronomical compared to modern medicine.  \n\nCholera is a diarrheal illness, and the danger to life is dehydration, so attempts were made to get them to drink water.\n\nQuinsy is a peritonsilar abscess, and the danger is impediment to the airway.  Various liquids and snake oils were tried, but time and the body's own immune system were the only reliable cures.\n\nMalnutrition was not understood in the same way that it is today, and there were various snake oils that purported to "cure" the ailments associated with malnutrition, or with the vitamin deficiencies associated with it.\n\nIn short, nothing that would be considered mainstream today.\nBTW, none of the diseases you have inquired about even come close to a description or symptoms of bubonic plague.
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Cause Gambling Doesn't effect the general health of the nation, Smoking is a disgusting habit and fools that cant hold a few pints are a drain on A&E Departments..I live in Ireland and the smoking ban is the best thing to hit this country in years, To be able to go out and enjoy my few pints and come home NOT smelling of smoke is a dream come true..............And yea i do like a flutter here and there, took a few quid from the bookies this morning if Scolari takes the job....
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Cigarettes since the sixties have had warnings on the side.  Smokers have known the risks since then.  So No
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No we don't, we dont dye our rivers green or drink green beer, we dont sit down to a feast of cabbage and corned beef, or go around pinching someone who isnt wearing green. These are all American customs. In Ireland, the older folks go to mass, the rest of us celebrate with the Patrick's day festival, which lasts for 5 days. On the day itself, we go to the parade, then hit the pub and dance the night away. Check out www.stpatricksday.ie and see all that went on over the week.
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For the majority yes - I think its got a lot to do with laziness, the majority or people are too lazy to come home and cook a meal - its easier to just buy something trashy.  And of course the more you do this the less healthy it is.  If you go to other countries you can see the difference, the french for example savour their food and yes they drink wine and eat cheese and bread - all carbs, but they eat them slowly and its not over processed like potato chips.
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It's because most deaths related to alcohol are indirect such as drunk driving.  Smoking deaths are direct.
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Both can cause damage to the brain with heavy use over long periods of time, although it's much, much worse with alcohol.  Prolonged alcohol abuse will also damage the liver, while heavy marijuana smoking can cause forms of lung damage also caused by cigarette smoking.  So irresponsible use of either carries some health risk.\n\nBut it's very clear that alcohol abuse is much more likely to cause severe, irreversible, often fatal health effects than even the heaviest use of marijuana.  In theory, marijuana smoking could cause lung cancer in some people, but this is certainly very rare if it happens at all.  In contrast, the number of people in the U.S. who develop dementing brain damage (sometimes called "wet brain") or fatal liver disease, as a direct pharmacological effect of years of heavy drinking, is in the thousands.  Indirect damage (i.e. not pharmacological) to the user or others is also much more frequent with alcohol abuse than with pot smoking, given that alcohol is involved in approximately half of all motor vehicle fatalities, small aircraft crash deaths, drownings, fatal burn injuries, falls, homicides, suicides, and non-fatal injuries as well.  Marijuana smoking may be associated with some number of fatal and nonfatal injuries, but that number is probably very small.  \n\nAs if all that didn't make for a vivid, persuasive comarison favorable to marijuana, its also certain that the amounts of social, psychological, and spiritual damage associated with alcohol vastly exceed those possibly linked to pot smoking. "Reefer Madness" turns out to have been just a bad movie, and I suspect that intelligent space aliens would be astounded to discover a supposedly rational society in which alcohol use is accepted and promoted while marijuana smokers fill up jail cells.  I'm not suggesting, of course, that  there aren't good reasons for discouraging irresponsible use of alcohol OR marijuana by anyone, and children and adolescents should, in my view, be discouraged from using them at all even if both were legal for adults.
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THE Irish, according to the saying of a wise man of the race, are the last of the 305 great Celtic nations of antiquity spoken of by Josephus, the Jewish historian; and they alone preserve inviolate the ancient venerable language, minstrelsy, and Bardic traditions, with the strange and mystic secrets of herbs, through whose potent powers they can cure disease, cause love or hatred, discover the hidden mysteries of life and death, and dominate over the fairy wiles or the malific demons.\nThe ancient people used to divine future events, victory in wars, safety in a dangerous voyage, triumph of a projected undertaking, success in love, recovery from sickness, or the approach of death; all through the skilful use of herbs, the knowledge of which had come down to them through the earliest traditions of the human race. One of these herbs, called the Fairy-plant, was celebrated for its potent power pf divination; but only the adepts knew the mystic manner of its preparation for use.\nThere was another herb of which a drink was made, called the Bardic potion, for the Bards alone had the secret of the herb, and of the proper mode of treatment by which its mystic power could be revealed. This potion they gave their infant children at their birth, for it had the singular property of endowing the recipient with a fairy sweetness of voice of the most rapturous and thrilling charm. And instances are recorded of men amongst the Celtic Bards, who, having drunk of this potion in early life, were ever after endowed with the sweet voice, like fairy music, that swayed the hearts of the hearers as they chose to love or war, joy or sadness, as if by magic influence, or lulled them into the sweet calm of sleep. Such, according to the Bardic legends, was the extraordinary power of voice possessed by the great Court Minstrel of Fionn Ma-Coul, who resided with the great chief at his palace of Almhuin, and always sat next him at the royal table.\nThe virtue of herbs is great, but they must be gathered at night, and laid in the hand of a dead man to hold. There are herbs that produce love, and herbs that produce sterility; but only the fairy doctor knows the secrets of their power, and he will reveal the knowledge to no man unless to an adept. The wise women learn the mystic powers from the fairies, but how they pay for the knowledge none dare to tell.\nThe fairy doctors are often seized with trembling while uttering a charm, and look round with a scared glance of terror, as if some awful presence were beside them. But the people have, the most perfect faith in the herb-men and wise women, and the faith may often work the cure.\nThere are seven herbs of great value and power; they are ground ivy, vervain, eyebright, groundsel, foxglove, the bark of the elder-tree, and the young shoots of the hawthorn.\nNine balls of these mixed together may be taken, and afterwards a potion made of bog-water and salt, boiled in a vessel, with a piece of money and an elf-stone. The elf-stone is generally found near a rath; it has great virtues, but being once lifted up by the spade it must never again touch the earth, or all its virtue is gone. (This elf-stone is in reality only an ancient stone arrowhead.)
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http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/agriculture_pre.html\n\nhttp://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND1276918/\n\nhttp://www.sare.org/highlights/2006/farm_systems.htm
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Hmm.  Well, in Safety Education a million years ago, I learned cigarette *smoke* contains hydrogen cyanide, among other yummy things.
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YES! The trend in Europe and America--for the last 100 years, or so-- is toward more acceptance of differing lifestyles. I'm old enough to remember segregation. And drug use was totally non-accepted back in the 1950s.
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My grandfather passed away in 1987 and was a heavy drinker and a smoker.  Since then, My grandma (who is now deceased) abolished smoking in the house.  Funny thing is, right in front of the fireplace, sits his green chair that he used to sit in to smoke his cigars.  Every once in a while me and my family will catch a whiff of cigar smoke in the same area of the living room.
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Of course; especially in North America !\nSad thing is to read that in Ireland people actually wear green on that day, drink green beer, pinch people and so on..it's a farce in North America !
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If you are talking about Native Americans, then I would say they are both about as bad-tempered. How do I know? I am Irish and my husband is Native American. However, we've learned to "cool it" over the years. Irish and Native American also seem to have equally bad problems with alcohol. We are both abstainers, but we have the same severe alcoholism in our family backgrounds. Like my husband says: "Irish and Indian, they's a lot alike!"
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The cigarette was born some time in the 18th century: beggars in Seville began to pick from the ground the cigar ends left by the señoritos (rich young men), wrapped the tobacco remains with paper and smoked them. The first attested use of this habit can be seen in three 18th century paintings by Francisco de Goya: La cometa (The kit), La merienda en el Manzanares (Picnic by the river Manzanares) and El juego de la pelota a pala (The ball and paddle game).\n\nThe use of tobacco in cigarette form became increasingly popular after the Crimean War. This was helped by the development of certain types of tobaccos that are suitable for cigarette use. During World War I and World War II, cigarettes were rationed to soldiers. During the second half of the 20th century, the adverse health effects of cigarettes started to become widely known and severe health warnings became commonplace on cigarette packets.
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lets see.....in 1989 I was almost blown up by a floating mine in the persian gulf.....I have almost been hit by cars.. fallen on the tracks in the subway when I was a child....I have had more close calls riding on a motorcycle than I want to remember....I woke up with a knife to my thoat on one ship....crack heads are such nice people... I could go on .. but I am starting to wonder if \nA) I am one lucky bastard\nB) God is Mad at me but keeps missing.\nC)it is true God watches out for the Irish / drunks/ small children and idiot....\n hmmm I am only half Irish so that cant be it...\nI work on ships for a living so there is always something that can go wrong......gotta keep on your toes....\n ok then by by.