To: Harrius Magnus
. . .or the hundreds of thousands more who suffer heart attacks, strokes, amputations, blindness, or other problems. . .Amputations and blindness? Gee, the list of medical conditions supposedly caused by smoking keeps growing. Frankly, I think it has become the politically correct thing to do to blame any medical condition on smoking if the individual smokes.
8 posted on
03/12/2008 10:46:06 AM PDT by
MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
They don’t even have to smoke; there’s ETS.
35 posted on
03/12/2008 11:35:22 AM PDT by
Old Professer
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To: MEGoody
If they don’t smoke, it is blamed on second hand smoke. My sister died of kidney cancer- she did not smoke, and neither did her husband. Doctors said it was second hand smoke. My sister-in-law recently fought ovarian cancer- she doesn’t smoke, nor does my brother- in her case they did say genes (her mother died of cancer) but they had to add- second hand smoke may have been a factor. They reach and reach to blame everything on smoking.
86 posted on
03/13/2008 10:38:32 AM PDT by
Tammy8
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To: MEGoody
The amputations probably result from constricted circulation which can be caused by nicotine. I don't know about the blindness, though.
Carolyn
89 posted on
03/13/2008 11:05:38 AM PDT by
CDHart
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