It is impossible to definitively place blame on cigarette smoking for any individual person's diseases. IMPOSSIBLE. You can suspect. You can highly suspect, even. But you can never ever prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. She could have been genetically susceptible to circulation problems. It could have been entirely related to poor dietary habits. She could be one of those few unlucky people that got hit with fallout from all those above-ground nuke tests in the 50s and 60s. It could be anything.
Oh, and it's been proven that merely eating junk food is not the source of poor health in overweight people: It's being sedentary. You could be quite fat, but as long as you maintain just about any level of exercise whatsoever, even just a half-hour walk per day, then you're going to be in much better overall health than a thin person who eats absolutely "perfectly" but gets no exercise at all.
Only in the philosphical sense that you can not prove that yesterday existed, IMPOSSIBLE!
Oh, and it's been proven that merely eating junk food is not the source of poor health in overweight people: It's being sedentary. You could be quite fat, but as long as you maintain just about any level of exercise whatsoever, even just a half-hour walk per day, then you're going to be in much better overall health than a thin person who eats absolutely "perfectly" but gets no exercise at all.
I'm a fittness nut and I agree 100 percent. I love biking to work and lifting weights.
When I was pregnant with my first child, I quit smoking and would not smoke anywhere around him....he has asthma. When I was pregnant with my twins, the doctor said to just cut down on smoking, but don't quit because the stress would be bad for the babies and I could lose them....they don't have asthma. Go figure.