Surgeon general expands list of diseases linked to smoking

http://releases.usnewswire.com ^ | Updated 5/27/2004 1:44 PM | HHS Press Office

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[Tijeras_Slim]

Surgeon general expands list of diseases linked to smoking

Yaws.

[TheSpottedOwl]

He forgot to mention ingrown toenails and obesity.

[Fast Ed97]

[CougarGA7]

[weegee]

Is VD on this list? A lot of people smoke cigarettes after casual sex.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[Annie03]

"He forgot to mention ingrown toenails and obesity."

LOL. I like the part about post-surgical wound infection. I had a c-section less than 2 months prior to my 40th. No infection, no complications, in fact I no longer have a scar. My late father bounced back from surgeries in a like manner. I just don't buy that smoking causes everything. Less people smoke and these illnesses don't seem to be going down. Why is that? As a side note, my husband quit smoking and came down with adult onset asthma. The doc said that's because his lungs are healthier now. HUH?!?

[CougarGA7]

This is what he started with.

[brewcrew]

How about alcoholism? Alcoholism is a disease, right? Does smoking cause alcoholism? Or pedophilia? Or gambling? The libs would have us believe that these are diseases. I can't wait until they are caused by something like smoking. Pretty soon, everybody will have an excuse and not have to take responsibility.

[SouthernFreebird]

Yep me too, I quit smoking and got Asthma and have felt like crap in the three years I quit. Glad I'm healthier now.

[Fast Ed97]

"He forgot to mention ingrown toenails and obesity."

[Age of Reason]

"There is no safe cigarette, whether it is called 'light,' ultra-light,' or any other name," Dr. Carmona said.

Yeah.

Now how about spending some of those cigarrette taxes on developing a safe cigarette?

[Annie03]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. My dh doesn't want to take it up again, and I'm sure you don't either. He's been quit at least as long as you, maybe longer. He started out feeling better, and then the nasty asthma. Hope you have it under control now.

[Age of Reason]

I've long ago given up sugar, flour, TV, almost all meat, and tobacco.

That said, I still wonder--so long as I must live in an industrialized world (which I one day soon hope to escape doing, at least partially)--if it isn't more fun to eat chocolate donuts, pancakes smothered in butter with bacon on the side, drink coffee with cream and sugar, and smoke my brains out.

And die young--but wonderfully anesthetized by all those bad habits.

[Age of Reason]

I gave up marriage, too.

[adam_az]

BREAKING: BIRTH STRONGLY CORRELATED WITH EVENTUAL DISEASE AND DEATH!

[muir_redwoods]

"Now how about spending some of those cigarrette taxes on developing a safe cigarette?"

Sorry, there's no safe way to drag the products of combustion over some of the most sensitive and fragile tissue in the human body.

[southernnorthcarolina]

[Ditter]

Sorry about your husbands asthma. My husband & his father both developed allergies late in their lives too. They neither one had asthma as a result but they could have developed it. The other troubling reactions bother them just the same. I have had allergies since childhood that cause asthma. Its not easy to deal with.