Posted on 07/29/2011 6:16:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Who says smoking cigarettes is so bad ... well, aside from the World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and every medical board and association on the face of the Earth?
But should smokers be fortunate enough to dodge all that cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the like, they will be uniquely protected — for reasons unexplained by science — against a handful of diseases and afflictions.
Call it a silver lining in their otherwise blackened lungs. Although long-term smoking is largely a ticket to early death, here are (gulp) five possible benefits from smoking. Breathe deep.
1. Smoking lowers risk of knee-replacement surgery
While smokers might go broke buying a pack of cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery. Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked.
The study, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to be morbidly obese.
After controlling for age, weight and exercise, the researchers were at a loss to explain the apparent, albeit slight protective effects of smoking for osteoporosis. It could be that the nicotine in tobacco helps prevent cartilage and joint deterioration.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Is there something in your DNA that insists you troll any thread with any relation to smoking?
I was just trying to help get the smoking message out. Sorry I upset your karma.
#7 Not healthy for me, but has saved countless others from a well deserved ass kicking due to the fact I took a smoke break and calmed down
Not to mention, a cigarette break helped one to think better away from whatever the problem on the desk was at any particular time. I wouldn’t even finish the cigarette because the solution would come to me and I could back to my desk and take care of it.....
He’s witless and adds nothing to intelligent political discourse.
Ignore it.
People like him are probably the reason every guy in my office under 30 smokes cigarettes. Even after the denormalization state funded ad campaign.
DUDE! I was defending your position and you got harsh on me.
SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
That has been known since these type threads began around here.
Ignore it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - they're too much fun to play with.
People like him are probably the reason every guy in my office under 30 smokes cigarettes.
Well, DUH - as my 13yo would say!
Even after the denormalization state funded ad campaign.
You meant to say smoker funded, right?
The only karma I see upset around here is YOURS. Poor baby.
You recruited your 13 year old yet? Told 'em it's a habit not an addiction?
2084 is working on his kids to reject the evils of statism and accept the pleasures of nicotine.
Well fiddlestix! I stopped smoking six or seven years ago (been so long I can’t remember; is memory loss associated with stopping smoking?), so now I carry around the extra weight, and these studies are indicating I should smoke ten cigarettes a day? Man I wish they would make up my mind!
It is fun!
As long as it’s a challenge. Beating a deaf, dumb mute up and down the sidewalk for public amusement is not fun. It’s sad. I feel bad.
My great grand-PawPaw died at 102 years of age. smoked since he was 12. Smoking did not kill him, though I am sure it must have annoyed many people.
Smoke - Mirrors.
13 years old?!
Dang, and I can remember when she crawled up in my lap so I could read her a book.
That might get me arrested today. ;^)
What brand do you prefer?
You realize there are lines that are never to be crossed, I do believe you have crossed one of them.
Have your fun, but just remember - when you give them the right to prohibit, you have also given them the right to mandate.
Think about it - if you can stretch your brain that far.
How did I know that you would be on this thread?// heh.
That would certainly be the preferable of the two choices. To a conservative.
And if one uses the same vapid science used to claim SHS will kill anyone coming in contact with it, this just proves the total opposite.
Oh don’t be so mean............he can’t help himself, it’s an addiction thing, don’t ya know!!!!
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