Sounds like he may be simply piling onto the anti-smoking bandwagon.
Sort-of-a-Nanny State PING!
“He had to resort to using leeches for several days to suck out the old blood....”
FINALLY someone came up with something useful for the OWS to do!;)
My neighbor, a nurse, had enhancement surgery several years ago and her doctor told her the same thing. Being crazier than a loon and a chain smoker, she ignored his advice; until those exact effects kicked in and she almost ended up with a mastectomy. This has nothing to do with anti-smoking and a lot to do with adverse effects of the components of tobacco smoke on healing tissues. Her plastic surgeon was also a smoker.
Thanks for the ping!