Time for us to spend some time here in Good Day Health with doctor Jack
Stockwell. He is the author of all Things Important at forbiddendoctor dot com,
where the gaps practitioner that he is focuses on things that are important for your
body. And then Jack Stockwell dot com is his website because he's a knooka
chiropractor dealing just with the things that can be helped by going to see him
as a chiropractor. One of the most recent podcasts at good day Health dot
com is a focus on drinking raw milk. And you know how I am
on that one, Jack, I'm all, I'm all for. It's just
I also know how mother nature is about it too, Yeah, right,
exactly, All right, Let's talk about the use of menthol cigarettes and things
that are being exposed now smoking and youngsters. Forty percent of middle school and
high school students are smoking cigarettes and they're using these menthol cigarettes. Eighty five
percent of Black smokers use menthol cigarettes. It has been quite a the news
has been filled lately. And Jack, after we hear this little bit of
information, I want to have you talk a little more about the horrors of
smoking and what it does, especially if you start young. So first we're
going to listen to Dwight Stone, though, who has some more on that
in the note I'm d white Stone. Pediatricians have long been sounding the alarm
on how the tobacco industry uses flavors to hook kids on their products. Doctor
nia Herd Gerris of the American Academy of Pediatrics explains young people are uniquely vulnerable
to the highly addictive nature of nicotine, which means teenage experimentation can easily turn
into lifelong addiction. For too long, the tobacco industry has used appealing flavors
like menthol to addict young people. The health of Black communities has also been
impacted by aggressive marketing of menthol products, leading to disproportionate addiction, suffering,
and death. Lack of action by policy makers has delayed final rules to prohibit
mental cigarettes and flavored cigars. These rules are a chance to address the threat
of nicotine addiction, reduce cancer deaths, and save lives. Failing to act
leaves young people and Black communities at risk. The AAP urges the Biden administration
to finalize these rules and eliminate these harmful products. To learn more, go
to aap dot org slash tobacco. All right, Jack, let's talk about
this for a moment if we can. That is the use of tobacco products
by youngsters, How it gets started, how it gets stopped, how our
parents involved. If you're a parent and you smoke, your children most likely
will smoke. If you're a parent and you don't smoke, your children are
most likely not to smoke. Some are affected by other pressures, like their
own peers and that sort of thing. But as they're growing their bodies and
grown. I remember looking at this when my mother was sick. She was
a smoker. Shed I was fifty, I was looking around high school health
classes would take the impact of tobacco and show youngsters, you know, what
happened when you smoked. I don't know that they do that anymore. They
ought to, but they probably don't. So. But what's so uniquely why
are the younger people more vulnerable to tobacco nicotine, is that they're more easily
addicted to are still developing. For one thing, the brains, you know,
the brain. The brain really isn't fully wired until we're about in the
early twenties. A lot of it occurs up prior to puberty, but even
through adolescence, the brain is still wiring, forming synaptic connections between the various
areas of the brain which are all influenced by nutrition, and smoking will definitely
affect the ability of the body to absorb certain nutrients as well as you know,
polluting not just the lungs, but obviously the nicotine gets into the bloodstream
into the brain, and we have nicotine receptor sites because there's various kinds of
nutrients that have a nicotinic aspect to it, which isn't the same thing as
breathing in nicotine from burning tobacco, but also the additives that's in the tobacco.
You know, there is evidence to show that if you were just smoking
nothing but pure tobacco, like some of these American Indian brands, it's far
less dangerous than this other stuff, especially when you're doing menthol and the menthol
stuff is in the filter and so it gives them a better kick. It's
a more pleasurable aspect to the brain. And if you're going to introduce somebody
to smoke and give them something that's going to be a little more pleasurable than
otherwise. And you know, it's just out here in Utah, we have
a lot. When we get stagnant air in the winter time, you get
this cloud of yuck. It just hangs over the valley until some no storms
come in and blow it out. And when that happens, there are warnings
all over the TV screen anybody with the least bit of breathing problems, stay
inside, don't be outside breathing this stuff. But hey, we've done it
better than that. We've concentrated into a little white tube and breathed it into
our lungs. Here's the description. Do remember doctor Jack Stockwell Here