Posted on 07/29/2011 6:16:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Who says smoking cigarettes is so bad ... well, aside from the World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and every medical board and association on the face of the Earth?
But should smokers be fortunate enough to dodge all that cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the like, they will be uniquely protected — for reasons unexplained by science — against a handful of diseases and afflictions.
Call it a silver lining in their otherwise blackened lungs. Although long-term smoking is largely a ticket to early death, here are (gulp) five possible benefits from smoking. Breathe deep.
1. Smoking lowers risk of knee-replacement surgery
While smokers might go broke buying a pack of cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery. Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked.
The study, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to be morbidly obese.
After controlling for age, weight and exercise, the researchers were at a loss to explain the apparent, albeit slight protective effects of smoking for osteoporosis. It could be that the nicotine in tobacco helps prevent cartilage and joint deterioration.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
So, she’s much more than an alcoholic who hasn’t drunk in 40 years. Your original post was amusing in that narrow context provided by the absence of necessary information.
Part of the study itself is linked HERE, but the W.H.Org managed to get most of it dumped down the memory hole.
Funny how the only statistically significant result in a huge study by state-funded super nannies ended up disproving their very premise. No surprise that they hid it, is there?
Regarding childhood asthma, I noticed a huge jump in asthma after the removal of tetraethyl lead from gasoline, which leads me to think that whatever they replaced the lead with is a significant asthma trigger. When I went to school i had heard of asthma by the 5th grade or so, but never knew anyone with it until grade 11. Now it seems that every other kid has it. Have we made our environment TOO clean?
I earnestly encourage you to go with this message. Sell it! SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
Dang it I never thought I’d be advise smokers how to market death but there you go. This is a winning campaign. Go for it! Just do it.
SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
In Ct, the eco zealots closed six power plants they called the “sooty six” based on asthma stats. Now, ten years later, and after the tripling of our electric bills, asthma rates are the same.
We were ripped off.
Not only did I make a statement, but I posed a question, and linked to information from a source that would be considered wholly reliable, since it links direct to the National Institute for Health and shows the whole study I referred to.
I know, I know, I can't convince you with facts, your mind is made up.
Nonetheless, I will post a link to the PDF file of the entire study so you can read it at your leisure.
Perhaps you can find something that supports anything you've claimed about smoking.
I do find your visceral hatred for something that gives so many pleasure very rude, though. If these threads so offend you, why do you insist on opening and commenting on them, and insulting, demeaning and generally being a real twerp towards others who don't share your viewpoint? You're like the un-Willie Green for train threads, or Chet99 on pitbull threads.
Both of them ended up getting banned for their antics, btw.
Jeepers I was just trying to help. Just trying to give you marketing points...No need to go all postal.
No, they shouldn't. Freedom is more important that any one issue on its merits. Not just for the basic principle, as if that weren't enough, but because once you start tearing exceptions in freedom on whatever issue it's deemed acceptable, then you get to the marginal issues, and THEN to the clearly egregious cases. Like we are now. Oh, wait...
Why do you seem incapable of grasping this?
Oh, and I say that as someone who’s never been a smoker.
Nice try. I present facts, references, and information; you spout vitriol and insult, calling it “marketing suggestions”.
That makes me the aggressor and you a victim? Puh-leez!
Hmmm. Based on behavior, I conclude that "Drango" is the FR screen name of...wait....
...Barack Obama! NOW he's got something to complain about.
Which is exactly why I posted what I did at post #79.
You’re a busybody statist who doesn’t care about the facts.
I have been smoking for 41 years and I have never once coughed up black phlegm. In fact I haven’t had a cold in over 38 years and I haven’t had the flu in over 28 years. Can you say the same?
Well, I do drink a lot of coffee. :-)
Actually, the article triggered me to think about it — Google did the rest.
That’s the dirty little secret that “they” don’t want you to know about. Smokers are thinner, not only because it is an appetitie supressant, and has some natural thinning properties, but because they get their oral fixation that way. You’re not filling the void with chips while smoking. IMHO, it’s completely un-PC, but with the advent of smoking bans everywhere, you had the astronomical weight gains in the population as a whole. One theory is that humans were designed to take a low level of smoke every day. Not from cigarettes necessarily, but from campfires, cooking, etc. It kept our lungs “exercised” and our weight down. Now with no real challenges for our lungs, they become immunologically weak and therefore the INCREASE in asthma since smoking was banned in public. We’re going to see increases in obesity and asthma from now until forever.
I have tried to explain the “smoky caves” theory to several people over the years and all I get is disbelief and denial that such a thing is even possible.
I try using logic, and all I get are ‘talking points’ spewed back at me.
Following the evolutionists’ own story, we started off dodging fire, then tamed it. We took fire and brought it into our living quarters, giving us warmth, light, and: smoke-filled caves, then smoke-filled tents, then smoke-filled huts, then smoke-filled houses, then smoke-filled towns, then smoke-filled cities, where we finally got too much smoke, so we started cleaning up the air. Now we have cleared the air so much that nobody can tolerate any smoke exposure whatever.
We’re going to have a huge die-off one of these years when something triggers a massive asthma attack among those weakened by their susceptiblility. Who knows what or when it’ll be, but I worry for them.
If they were mostly democrat supporters we would all be hearing about the “benefits of bathing your lungs in healthful smoke”
You're confusing your FRiend. Post 79 isn't from you, it's from His Royal Hiney. Which of your posts were you referring me to?
Face it, we're dirty creatures, who used to be covered with all kinds of dirt and bacteria. And "hazards" like smoke.
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