Tobacco

Aajonus said plainly that smoking addiction is rarely an addiction to nicotine. He described it as always a need for enzymes and blood sugar. Smoking causes a toxic response in the body that forces the liver to produce hormones that call for stored sugars. The preferred blood sugar, glycogen, is made of the protein sugar pyruvate, which is best obtained from eating raw meat. When the body is deprived of adequate raw protein and the enzymes that come with it, it generates a craving that manifests as the desire for a cigarette, because smoking forces the liver to release stored glycogen and creates a rush of energy.

He described nicotine specifically as vitamin B-niacin, noting that it stimulates the brain and temporarily raises energy. He spoke from personal experience, explaining that as a child he was severely energy-deficient due to illness, cold, lack of adequate food, and disrupted sleep, and that coffee and cigarettes were the tools he used to stay functional. He said the nicotine would keep him high for an hour to an hour and a half. He was not romanticizing this; he was describing the metabolic logic behind why someone with chronically low blood sugar and inadequate nutrition would reach for cigarettes repeatedly throughout the day.

He also observed that the craving for cigarettes functions similarly to other withdrawal cycles. When a smoker goes without a cigarette, they experience painful psychological, emotional, and sometimes physical withdrawal, comparable to the cycle of blood sugar crashes associated with sugar dependence or other addictive substances. He noted that one hundred years ago, people had to be wealthy to afford cigarettes or coffee, and that people had healthier bodies and more nutritive diets then, so the conditions driving those cravings were less common.

Aajonus described beginning to smoke at age eight in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was already using stolen coffee from his parents' kitchen to give himself energy in the mornings. He said he was in chronic pain from the cold, severely lethargic, and essentially unable to function without stimulants. He saw other children smoking, was made to try a cigarette by an older brother, and despite coughing and vomiting from it, found that it wired him and gave him energy. He then began hiding in the wooded area outside his school during breaks, smoking a few puffs at a time from a cigarette he stored in a tin can buried under pine needles.

By age sixteen he was smoking two packs of Lucky Strike non-filters per day and drinking eleven cups of coffee daily. He described taking each cigarette until the end was a bright red burning coal an inch long, drawing the smoke until his entire chest was full. His mother would tell him he looked like a fiend. He said he was unable to sleep at night from the stimulation, so he began drinking alcohol to come down enough to sleep. By age nineteen he was consuming a fifth of liquor nightly, two packs of cigarettes, Benzedrine, and eleven cups of coffee daily.

He continued smoking through his early adult years, through his period of progressive illness, through two packs of non-filtered Marlboros or Lucky Strikes per day while working as a systems analyst earning eighty thousand dollars a year. He stopped after a bleeding ulcer and subsequent surgery made alcohol impossible to continue, and he began transitioning to carrot juice. The cigarettes, he said, were the hardest thing to give up. He described stopping eventually not because he was told to but because his values shifted as his health improved and he became unwilling to trade his energy and clarity for the temporary pleasure of smoking.

He remained explicit throughout his later teachings that he would still smoke today if it were good for him, that he loved smoking, and that he did not judge anyone who chose to continue.

Aajonus described the tars in cigarette smoke as extremely thick, cooked substances formed at temperatures ranging from seven hundred fifty degrees to twelve hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit, with the ash at the end of the cigarette reaching up to twelve hundred fifty degrees when drawn hard. These temperatures cause the natural fats in tobacco to become what he characterized as trans-fatty acids, substances that bond together and harden. He said that when these tars reach the body, the body attempts to use them as fats but finds them very difficult to work with because they are so thick. The body must use a large proportion of its fat nutrients simply to bind with the tars and arrest them, keeping them from causing dryness throughout the system, and this leaves fewer fats available for energy, cellular lubrication, and maintaining moisture in tissues.

He described his own bronchioles as being ninety percent scar tissue from his years of heavy smoking, noting that the heat sometimes reached the lungs at nine hundred degrees and that the tar itself reached the lungs at high temperatures. After stopping smoking and eventually adopting the raw diet, he tracked healing through iridology, reporting that a single cold and flu cleared forty percent of the remaining scar tissue from his bronchioles. He later described experiencing the smoke tar detoxification coming out through his skin rather than through his lungs, noting that the body had found a safer route, one that would not flood the lungs with water or create respiratory crises.

He also described tars crystallizing over time. He said that if tars remain in the body over many years they crystallize and clog and dry many bodily systems, especially the kidneys. He noted that smokers tend to accumulate tars in specific areas, particularly around the lungs and kidneys, visible in iridology as concentrated deposits in those zones. Secondary or passive smokers, by contrast, show tars patched more broadly throughout the system rather than concentrated in the lung and kidney areas.

He observed that some individuals on the Primal Diet were able to convert tobacco tars into usable substances, noting five specific people he knew of, two of whom had been on the diet for sixteen years, who smoked regularly and showed no tar accumulation in their bodies. He attributed this to the liver producing multiple kinds of bile that could convert the vaporized oil from the smoke into a form of cholesterol the body could use. He was careful to say he did not know how many smokers were capable of this conversion, acknowledging it was rare.

Aajonus extended the analysis of tar accumulation to people who had never smoked but who had been raised around smokers. He described cases where he could see tar deposits in an individual's iridology who claimed never to have smoked, only to find that their parents had smoked throughout their childhood. He said grandchildren could carry tars whose source was grandparents who smoked. The parents were exposed to the grandparents' smoke as children, accumulated tars in their own bodies, and passed those toxic deposits on to their children, not through genetic mechanisms but through the physical transfer of accumulated poisons.

He described one individual in a workshop whose iridology showed tars in particular spots concentrated around the lungs and kidneys in a pattern consistent with direct smoking. When the individual said they had never smoked, Aajonus asked about parents. The person confirmed the parents had smoked. Aajonus told them they were effectively a smoker who had absorbed it secondhand throughout childhood, and that it looked that way precisely because the tars were in those characteristic spots rather than dispersed throughout the body as in passive exposure during adulthood.

Aajonus spoke repeatedly about the tobacco industry deliberately adding chemicals to cigarettes to increase addiction. He cited a whistleblower who was one of the scientists and medical doctors involved in that effort, who came forward approximately ten years before the time of Aajonus's speaking and proved that the industry had been doing this. He specifically mentioned ammonia-based drugs added to cigarettes to release the nicotine faster, making the nicotine hit the system more quickly and creating stronger dependence.

He described the chewing tobacco and snuff products as similarly treated with chemicals to cause addiction, noting approximately three hundred chemicals in commercial tobacco products. He compared this practice directly to the pharmaceutical industry's interest in keeping patients dependent on medications, and to the food industry's addition of chemicals to prevent nutrient absorption and stimulate overconsumption. His framing was consistent: these are industries that profit from dependency and have no interest in their customers' health.

He also contrasted commercial processed tobacco with natural, untreated tobacco, noting that American Spirit was supposedly more natural, but that the ideal was tobacco grown by someone in the South who did not treat the plants. He noted that tobacco requires a humid climate, which is why the South is well-suited to growing it.

Aajonus's approach to helping people stop smoking was indirect and non-coercive. He did not tell people to stop smoking. His instruction was to eat something specific every time the craving for a cigarette appeared, and then, if they still wanted the cigarette, to go ahead and smoke it. The food he recommended was honey and butter, though he said honey alone would work. The honey and butter combination was described as superior because both elements together more effectively address the blood sugar and enzyme deficit that the craving represents.

His instruction was explicit: every time you have the craving, have the honey and butter before you have the cigarette. Just incorporate this. The other will be eliminated on its own. He described the outcome as predictable: people who follow this instruction find they get through only a third of the cigarette before throwing it out, because the craving has already been addressed by the food. Over time, they repeat this pattern and eventually find themselves not smoking at all, without having been told to quit and without the painful cold-turkey withdrawal.

He emphasized that this approach works because the body's signal has been correctly interpreted and answered. He described all cravings, including nicotine cravings, as coming from the body's actual need, not from psychological weakness or irrational compulsion. He said there is no such thing as a craving that does not reflect a real bodily need, and that the job is to translate the craving and feed what the body is actually asking for.

For people who had already stopped smoking and wanted to break down and eliminate the hardened tars already stored in their bodies, Aajonus developed a specific protocol using raw green tobacco. He described tars as extremely difficult to dissolve by any other means, saying that the only way he had seen people deliberately break down those tars was to chew raw tobacco and spit out the pulp.

He also described juicing green tobacco and consuming it in measured drops. His written product list described juicing green tobacco through a Green Star or similar masticating juicer until twelve or thirty ounces of juice were obtained. Light smokers and secondary smoke exposures were to consume three drops per day, working through twelve ounces over nine months. Heavy long-term smokers were to consume up to seven drops per day, working through thirty ounces over nine months. The juice was to be kept in a glass jar with one or two ounces of good well water or glass-bottled water added respectively.

He noted that green tobacco is seasonal, available from July through August and sometimes as late as mid-September, and that sources should not be called outside of that season. He specified that the tobacco must be raw and green, not cured or dried, because cured tobacco is the form that is taxed and is also the form that has undergone the chemical changes that make it less therapeutically useful.

In correspondence, he was asked whether tobacco that had turned brown during shipping would still be effective. His answer was that tobacco brown for several days would be fine, because it would be fermented anyway. The requirement for green tobacco was specifically to ensure it had not been dried and cured, and if it had merely begun to oxidize and brown during transit without full curing, it remained acceptable.

He also mentioned that chewing raw tobacco and allowing it to mold before consuming the molded material would further help dissolve tars. He said he had never heard of anyone becoming nauseous from raw green tobacco, distinguishing this from the nausea associated with commercial processed tobacco. He acknowledged that raw green tobacco contains nicotine and would produce a mild stimulating effect and a slight high, but not to a degree that caused illness.

Regarding sourcing, he suggested contacting tobacco farmers directly and asking for green, fresh tobacco. He noted that growing one's own was an option. He described the difficulty of commercial sourcing because the tobacco turns brown very quickly after cutting and develops a strong odor, making shipping and border crossing uncertain. He corresponded about efforts to work with a company called Mother Earth Tobacco on this.

He also noted that letting raw tobacco mold and then eating it would help dissolve tars, extending the fermentation logic he applied elsewhere in his framework. He described the mechanism as the natural fats in tobacco acting as a solvent of similar character to the crystallized tars, breaking them up because substances of similar nature can dissolve one another.

Aajonus made specific comparative statements about marijuana and tobacco in the context of tar content and toxicity. He said marijuana has approximately sixteen times more tars than regular tobacco, and that because those tars are cooked at temperatures between five hundred and one thousand degrees Fahrenheit (with the ash reaching twelve hundred to sixteen hundred to eighteen hundred degrees), they may crystallize and harden in various parts of the body. He said that smoking one marijuana joint is the equivalent of smoking an entire pack of cigarettes in terms of tar exposure.

He acknowledged that tobacco is also an herb but distinguished it from marijuana by noting that commercial cigarettes have approximately three hundred added chemicals beyond the natural plant, though he framed the primary harm as coming from the tar itself rather than exclusively from the additives. He noted that marijuana's greater tar content is partly because it contains more natural fat than tobacco leaf, and all of that fat becomes trans-fatty acid when burned at high temperatures.

He did describe a qualified use of marijuana in the context of tar detoxification. He explained that when marijuana is eaten rather than smoked, the raw fats in it act as a solvent that breaks up the existing crystallized tars in the body because substances of like nature dissolve one another. He recommended this approach specifically for people who had been habitual marijuana smokers and wanted to break down the thick accumulated tars that resulted. The protocol was six to nine months, with the person able to have it as often as desired if they were trying to withdraw from smoking it, or once daily as a baseline. He distinguished between eating marijuana and smoking it, saying that eating it would be more effective at dissolving tars than simply stopping smoking and relying on the raw diet alone.

He noted that if an individual makes excessive bile, they may not experience as much tar congestion and therefore less hardening from marijuana smoke, consistent with his broader observation that certain individuals can process combustion byproducts more effectively than others.

Aajonus drew attention to a form of smoke exposure he considered more dangerous than conventional tobacco smoke: the vaporized hydrogenated oils used in theatrical and entertainment venues to create stage fog. He said that while venues once used dry ice for this effect, the modern method uses hydrogenated oils that are vaporized into the air. He described this as breathing particulate liquid plastic, and said it produces dioxins and polymers when the body attempts to break it down. He called it worse than actual smoke.

He described a case of a nightclub singer who developed a cancer involving nasal and sinus discharge, and attributed it to years of breathing vaporized plastic oil at the clubs where she performed. He noted that another entertainer, a guitar player and singer, developed deposits that began draining through a small hole on the outside of his face after a year of performing in a show that used heavy stage smoke heavily. In this case, Aajonus instructed topical applications of fresh pineapple rubbed on the area, combined with vinegar, to break down and remove the deposits. He said the pineapple should be fresh, not bottled, and rubbed directly on the affected area.

He was explicit that he would not attend any theater or venue using vaporized plastic oils and would leave if they began using them. He stated that the industry marketing this as safe because it uses vegetable oil was irrelevant, because any hydrogenated oil in vaporized particulate form is a plastic and is a poison regardless of its plant origin.

Aajonus described emphysema as a condition involving the irritation and destruction of the sacs in the lungs, brought on by airborne pollution including tobacco smoke, secondary smoke, smog, and prolonged inhalation of dusts from synthetic fibers in bedding, clothing, carpets, and coal dust. He framed emphysema as the lungs having become loaded with garbage they cannot easily detoxify and discharge.

His recommendation for someone with emphysema who was a smoker was to stop smoking, stay away from airborne toxins including synthetic fibers, and eat a raw diet with plenty of raw fat and raw meat. He said a person following this approach may have a good chance of living with emphysema, though he did not claim a cure in these passages.

He described his own history with lung damage extensively. After stopping smoking at age twenty-four, his bronchioles were ninety percent scar tissue. He worked through multiple pneumonias and an episode of spinal meningitis over subsequent years, and said that these intense detoxification events cleared his lungs to approximately ninety percent clean, though the bronchioles remained ninety percent toxic for a longer period. He tracked the healing of the bronchioles through iridology, and described a single cold and flu clearing forty percent of the remaining bronchiole scar tissue. He noted that the tar detoxification that eventually cleared his bronchioles expressed through his skin rather than through his lungs, which he described as the body's intelligent solution to avoiding the risks of a massive lung detox.

Aajonus mentioned vinegar as a substance that helps dissolve tars stored in the body from smoking, including secondary smoke exposure. He recommended it as a dietary addition for people carrying tar deposits, including those who had never smoked but had been raised around smokers.

He also noted that raw fats in general play a critical role in managing tar toxicity in active and former smokers. The body uses raw fat to bind with tars and arrest them, preventing them from creating extensive dryness throughout the system. Without sufficient raw fat, tars cause widespread desiccation of tissues. He characterized smoking as a diet of smoke tars, meaning the tars become part of the body's intake that it must process, and that the body attempts to utilize these thick cooked fats much as it would any dietary fat, with great difficulty.

He noted that smokers tend to be very dry inside because so much of the available fat goes toward managing the tars rather than lubricating tissues, moisturizing skin, or providing cellular energy. The implication within his framework was that heavy fat consumption, especially raw animal fat, is particularly important for smokers and former smokers.

He also described the lung tissue of a buffalo consumed by a patient with a heavy smoking history, noting that animal lung tissue may help the healing of human bronchioles and lung tissue damaged by smoking, consistent with his broader principle of eating tissues that correspond to the damaged organ.

Aajonus returned repeatedly to the parallel between the tobacco industry and the pharmaceutical industry as illustrations of the same underlying principle: industries that profit from dependency deliberately engineer their products to sustain that dependency and have no genuine interest in the health of their customers. He described tobacco companies as knowing that their products cause kidney, lung, and brain cancers and proceeding anyway because selling tobacco is the business. He compared the ammonia-based chemical manipulation of cigarettes to the pharmaceutical industry's use of drugs that treat symptoms without curing underlying conditions, keeping patients returning indefinitely.

He used the tobacco industry's documented manipulation of nicotine delivery as one of his clearest examples of a proven conspiracy, pointing to the whistleblower scientist who came forward and provided proof that the industry had deliberately engineered addiction. He then extended this framing to say that anyone who doubts that similar conspiracies operate in the pharmaceutical and food industries is, in his word, gullible.

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