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Pastimes : Smoking Is Good For You! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1)	2/19/2004 3:09:48 AM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 298

My grandfather smoked a box of cigars per week and drank a fifth of "Old Granddad" whiskey every two weeks of his adult life. He loved his bacon and eggs breakfasts, too, and steaks and pork chops and ham for dinners. He died in 1967, after his 7th stroke in 10 years. He also had a full head of thick white hair and rode a bus 35 miles to work and back, 6 days a week. He was a locksmith who also sharpened things like knives, shears, saw blades, etc, until he passed on at the age of 93. Lincoln had been assassinated only 9 years before Grampa was born and he was alive for nearly half of the existence of the US since the Declaration of Independence when he died. As the old Ford truck commercial used to say, "He was a tough old bird." I loved that tough old bird. Chas ;-(

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (1)	2/19/2004 5:59:02 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 298

Laz, do those studies take the following into consideration: Genetic predisposition. Personal stress management with regard to cardiovascular disease and perhaps to cancers. Other environmental exposures. Brand of cigarette (or cigar) smoked. Filter, nonfilter, menthol. Number and depth of inhalations per cigarette (or cigar). I'll try to think of some more. With regard to metabolism, assuming we are thinking of metabolism in the same context, one of the reasons that quitting smoking causes most people to gain weight is they metabolize their food differently than do smokers. But, for the record, I have never said smoking is a healthful indulgence or that it is not a contributing or aggravating factor in some diseases. I have merely said that it is not the ultimate cause of every disease known to humanity, which is what the medical community seems to be saying. The medical community also seems to be trying to create the illusion that by not smoking we can be assured of never being afflicted with disease and death. Not unlike a cult, really. - Holly