Looks like the final notes on tobacco smoke are being written. Good thing RA is such a benign condition.
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The same can’t be said of marijuana, with its effect on a growing brain.
My wife (age 80) has terrible arthritis and no one in her immediate or near family smoked. None of her siblings have arthritis. So far none of our 50+- something DNA pools and nieces and nephews have arthritis.
My mother and her siblings were depression/WWII teens/adults.
They all smoked until their late 20’s, and all of them had severe arthritis which got worse as they aged. They all lived to be 80 something.
So far my cousins,siblings, and I have avoided constant arthritis. We have wear and tear arthritis from basically sports injuries.
Cold weather sets that off, like this morning 55 degrees outside and 65 inside. Voltaren Gel dabbed on and rubbed into the key sore areas, works, when it gets too bad.
Both of my parents smoked until I was age 13. RA is the bane of my existence. Ibuprofen daily. Turning 65 on Thursday. The ibuprofen is less effective as time passes.
I’m a Boomer, b1949. I myself never smoked. But both parents and virtually every adult I knew was a heavy smoker. Every place I worked until the early nineties was a smoking environment. Commercial airliners had ashtrays in the armrests. Everyone smoked. Everywhere. Movie theaters and churches were about the only exceptions.
I have rheumatoid arthritis. Fighting hard to old down inflammation.
I have never heard of anyone who was interested in mucosal lung inflammation for any reason whatsoever, intense or otherwise.
I never smoked, but have COPD. My mom smoked like a chimney while she was pregnant and for years until her death from lung cnacer.