Is second hand smoke linked to dementia? Perhaps. The initial data suggests more research is necessary. However, the BMJ reports some interesting data suggesting that never smokers with the highest cotinine (the metabolite of nicotine) levels were 70% more likely to be cognitively impaired than never smokers with the lowest levels of salivary cotinine. Perhaps all the folks losing their homes are smokers. They spent all their money on smokes and forgot to pay their mortgage.
What IS it with the Anti-Smoking Hate??? Last 2 Presidents who abstained from Tobacco were Carter and Nixon... You're gonna look Silly when we find out Tube TVs are the real cause of Cancer (You check the Stats, you'll find the rates start goin up in exact concordance with TV viewership) and they're goin down now that peoples are switchin over to LCDs and Plasmas...
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And they stopped buying coffee at Starbucks.
ReplyDelete"What IS it with the Anti-Smoking Hate???"
ReplyDeleteThe best way to improve the health of the individual and health of the US and of the world is through tobacco control.
70% of tobacco users in the US want to quit.
About 90% become addicted when they are minors and are not legally supposed to be able to purchase tobacco products.
In the US warnings have been on cigarette packs for 45 years yet still 20+ percent of the population smokes.
For those of use that care about people being healthy and having healthy lives we are very much for tobacco control.
David MD