[tdadams]

Wow, this is great news smokers! Puff away, save yourselves from Alzheimer's.

/sarcasm

[sticker]

My wife and kids took my cigars away after my heart attack and bypasses, maybe I need to show them this.

[HELLRAISER II]

The govt., the scientist & the researches are full of $hit sometimes. If it gives you pleasure they're alway's going to tell you it's bad for you and sometimes it truly is, but this if it's true is just an example of how they twist the truths on both sides. Another example is butter & fats, for years we heard from them eat margarine, it's safer for you than regular butter. But low and behold butter is actually better for you, hell my grand pa smoked from age 7 till the day he died age 81. He ate fried fish, bacon & pure lard on his food and I imagine if I live that long supposedly eating healthy I'll be amazed.

[DoughtyOne]

Last I heard a bullet to the head will also stop the advance of Alzheimer's, so they are obviously on the right track.

[WellsFargo94]

Don't get too excited. My father smoked from WWII era as a young soldier until he was in his early 50's. He had early onset Alzheimer's and was in a nursing home (completely unaware) by the time he was 62 year old. He passed away at the age of 72 years old.

[azhenfud]

Wanna smoke?
No thinks...

[TheSpottedOwl]

My mom was a clean living sort of person, meaning that she didn't drink or smoke. She's in a board and care facility for Alzheimers. Alzheimers is a horrible thing to see; my mom needs to be on psychiatric meds because she became violent. In fact she was off her meds for a brief period during hip replacement surgery and slugged a nurse : (

[Humidston]

Bull! My mom was a chain smoker and died of Alzheimers in 1999. At that time, the nursing home had a "smokers' room" where we'd take her and even though she couldn't walk or eat on her own, nor even speak, she'd immediately pucker her lips for those cigarette drags.

[Argh]

Ping!

[Just another Joe]

This isn't the first we've heard of this nor is it the last.
Whether or not nicotine, or nornicotine, delays the onset of Alzheimers does not, and will not, matter to your normal anti-smoker. They don't care about the health of the smoker, they don't care that ETS, after millions and millions of dollars and decades of research, hasn't been proven to harm the average person, they just don't like the smell.
The honest ones will admit to as much.

[tnlibertarian]

Great! So I will be able to remember that I died from lung cancer!

[A. Pole]

But one potential upside was discovered recently when research suggested that cigarette smoking may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

Not just recently. It was known for a long time that there are much fewer smokers among Alzheimer victims. And the same applies to Parkinson.

Most of the risk associated with tobacco is caused by inhaling smoke. So the benefits from cigars and pipes (which you use without inhaling) can be bigger than risk.