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"Studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking, whereby people with schizophrenia are much more likely to smoke than those without the disease." (wikipedia) 1/2 https://t.co/8UI7U4IhVq
"It is possible that the relationship between class and schizophrenia exists because the conditions of life [...] of social reality that are so limited and rigid as to impair their ability to deal resourcefully with problematic and stressful situations."https://t.co/wpZ8dQnA7R
Everything I've read on nicotine, acetylcholine, & schizophrenia? Suggests coffee + smoking is a form of cheap effective self-medication for schizophrenia's negative symptoms. Take that away? Alcohol. Effectively banning smoking might as well be an attack on the poor. Disgusting.
There are quite literally medical studies currently recruiting for trials to explore the relationship between genes, tobacco, and nicotine as it relates to the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.https://t.co/99iQcLnmFr
"I see the God complex around me [...] I see it in the politicians we vote for -- people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works." https://t.co/6OAf603rEl
Hearing this makes me angry. Going to look up the policy now to confirm it, because if so, I never want to live in New York.https://t.co/dEZFrGlEdo
"The ban also violates the "anticommandeering doctrine," which holds that states can't be forced to enforce federal regulations, the suit argues." Ah, so its that fucking HUD legislation again trying to pull shit against poor people.https://t.co/XKGQF8y2Nx
The landowning (rent seeking) class petitioning gov regs "for their own good"."nationwide ban will have its greatest impact in New York, where the New York City Housing Authority [...] which had asked HUD unsuccessfully for three years to phase in a ban” https://t.co/aPWWEDwZmv
My mom has hurt her self slipping on the ice outside because she's not allowed to smoke indoors "for her safety" here in Vermont.You'll never guess what genes I found in my gene test (hint, it's the Acetylcholine related genes). https://t.co/spzc9vC584
Can we just start dragging poor people in the street, throwing moldy tomatoes at them, and then leave them in a pillory to be publicly humiliated by being fucked in the ass with rotten corn cobs? That seems a lot better than our current system. </sarcasm> https://t.co/CJXiqWUdkl
The lies we tell ourselves."this scapegoating is the result of collusion between politicians, the media and the public."https://t.co/EGzMMf0LeV
"the Poor Act 1697, paupers in receipt of parish relief were required to wear a badge of blue or red cloth on the shoulder of the right sleeve in an open and visible manner, in order to discourage people from collecting relief unless they were desperate" https://t.co/mOJlw49Qsw
My disabled mom wasn't told by housing she needed to move to a smaller apartment after me and my little brother left. Her contact retired and new one is suddenly cracking down due to HUD regulations.If she can't find a new place, she'll be homeless soon.https://t.co/rOqs1zabsS
Clawing away at social system and the complexity of it all in hope that I might find a way out of this shit.https://t.co/6O52hwTYvu
Going to spend the next week or so helping my mom move apartments -> from a handicap accessible first floor apt to a small one on the second floor.Thankful that one freed up. Tho those stairs are going to be difficult for her.
I guess it could be worse."has also used a loophole in Europe’s new digital data rules to allow public authorities to use data gathered under one pretext for entirely different purposes."https://t.co/Oq1blMi606 https://t.co/E0mOavBy1Z
