"Anti-Smoker Dysfunctional Syndrome"
Psychosomatic
adj.
Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.

There is much more to this than just meets the eye. For years I have considered the antis to be people that enjoyed comtrolling other people and causing them pain and dis-comfort and getting an almost sexual thrill from it.

Very much like rapeists;rape after all, is not so much about sex,as it is about control and inflicting pain.

The antis were just another slimy,scummy type of rapeists.

This did not explain the rabid intense fear and hatred of many of the antis.

The article below;tho about obesity, is applicable to smoking and explains some of the antis actions.

Smokers are sensed as diseased and must be feared ,despised, and made outcasts.

The vast majority of humanity has evolved past this irrational fear and reaction.

The antis are defective in their evolution and are very,very primative in their responses as compared to the rest of the human race.

I suppose that I should feel sorry for them. But;since I can not tell which are defective and which are rapeists,I will treat them all as scummy,slimmy,filth.
Gary K.



http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2814756.ece
Revealed: why slim people dislike the overweight

By Roger Dobson andIan Griggs
Published: 29 July 2007

From the taunting of the chubby child in the playground to cruel jibes at fat people in work and social settings, few could doubt there is widespread prejudice against the overweight.

However, according to research reported in Evolution and Human Behavior some people suffer abuse because being too fat is mistaken by the brain for a sign of disease.

Researchers say the immune system can be triggered into action at the sight of obesity because it doesn't like the look of what it sees, and associates it with infection.

Just as it orchestrates attacks on viruses and bacteria and triggers nausea at the hint of bad food, so it sends out signals of disgust in some people at the sight of an obese body that is designed to encourage avoidance and survival.


"Antipathy toward obese people is a powerful and pervasive prejudice in many contemporary populations. Our results reveal, for the first time, that this prejudice may be rooted in multiple, independent mechanisms. They provide the first evidence that obesity serves as a cue for pathogen infection,'' say the University of British Columbia researchers.

They say a behavioural immune system appears to have evolved in humans that is designed to detect body signs that are related to disease, like rashes and lesions. The sight of them triggers disgust as well as negative attitudes and avoidance. The system errs in favour of over-reacting because failure to react to a real danger could be fatal.

Researchers carried out a number of experiments, including word associations and tests where they compared the reactions and views of men and women to obesity.

The results show that people who agreed with comments such as "it really bothers me when people sneeze without covering their mouths" were more likely to agree with statement such as "if I were an employer looking to hire, I might avoid hiring a fat person".

The greater the fear of disease, the stronger the negative feeling about obesity.

(quote from article) Researchers say the immune system can be triggered into action at the sight of obesity because it doesn't like the look of what it sees, and associates it with infection.
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This researcher is a bona fide looney tune, in my opinion.