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To: Libloather

“I’m still waiting for the day smoking will be good for everyone. It’ll happen. It’s green”

Saying this, without humor , the cigarette companies have paid for studies that do indeed show that exact premise. And those studies are no more flawed than 90% of studies such as this one.


14 posted on 05/18/2011 1:00:58 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Cyman

“I’m still waiting for the day smoking will be good for everyone. It’ll happen. It’s green”

“Saying this, without humor , the cigarette companies have paid for studies that do indeed show that exact premise. And those studies are no more flawed than 90% of studies such as this one.”

Well there is one that WASN’T paid for by the cigarette companies, but I still wouldn’t go so far as to say smoking is good for you.

My Dad passed away from Parkinson’s. In the years leading up to that we did a lot of research on this killer. Probably the most surprising thing we learned is that smoking is almost a vaccine against Parkinson’s! Smokers coming down with Parkinson’s are very rare, almost statistically insignificant.

I don’t think it is a reason to smoke, but it would be wonderful if someday they could isolate the compound that is having this effect and offer it as a pill.


20 posted on 05/18/2011 1:12:20 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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