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Good news for all you smokers out there! - Tribal Dragon - 09-22-2005

Even light smoking triples disease death risk
One to four cigarettes a day can be deadly in long term, researchers say

Reuters
Updated: 7:06 p.m. ET Sept. 21, 2005

LONDON - Smokers who believe a few cigarettes a day don’t do any harm will need to think again.

Norwegian scientists who studied the health records of 43,000 men and women have shown that even light smoking — less than five cigarettes daily — triples the risk of dying of heart disease or lung cancer.

“In both sexes, smoking 1-4 cigarettes per day was associated with a significantly higher risk of dying from ischaemic heart disease and from all causes, and from lung cancer in women,” said Dr. Aage Tverdal of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo.

The study was published in the journal Tobacco Control.

The researchers tracked the health and death records and smoking habits of the men and women, who had been screened for heart disease at the start of the study, from the 1970s to 2002.

They found very little difference in the risk of dying from cancer, apart from lung cancer. Men who were light smokers were about three times more likely to die of lung cancer than non-smokers.

In women the risk rose to five times higher.

The dangers of smoking are well documented. Previous research has shown that smokers die on average 10 years earlier than non-smokers but kicking the habit, even in middle age, can the risk in half.

Smoking is also a risk factor for heart disease and stroke and raises the odds of developing age-related macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.

Tverdal and his colleague Dr. Kjell Bjartveit, of the National Health Screening Service in Oslo and a co-author of the study, said health officials must emphasize more strongly that light smokers are also endangering their health.


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Good news for all you smokers out there! - Grumpy - 09-22-2005

heard this on the news last night i smoke about 1 and a half packs a day.

soo do the math, i'm dead in a few days

Good news for all you smokers out there! - VitaminE - 09-22-2005

Tribal Dragon Wrote:Norwegian scientists

I laughed.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Tribal Dragon - 09-22-2005

VitaminE Wrote:I laughed.
Hmmmm, at least they don't have the religious right in norwegiaaaa (haha), telling them what they can't do....................

Good news for all you smokers out there! - ntype - 09-22-2005

yabada

- smoking kills
- alcool too
- "fat food" too
- normal and healthy food too now (sup mad cow, sup chicken flew, sup genetically modified vegetables

Basically yes everything could kill you (even if you do too much excercise).

I just say "go fuck you" are we supposed to cut out all the good things in life "because they could arm you ?" hey what about eating seeds and drinkin' pure water only ?

fuck that.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Tribal Dragon - 09-22-2005

ntype Wrote:yabada

- smoking kills
- alcool too
- "fat food" too
- normal and healthy food too now (sup mad cow, sup chicken flew, sup genetically modified vegetables

Basically yes everything could kill you (even if you do too much excercise).

I just say "go fuck you" are we supposed to cut out all the good things in life "because they could arm you ?" hey what about eating seeds and drinkin' pure water only ?

fuck that.
Have you seen anyone die from lung cancer NType?
I have, twice. It's probably one of the most excruciating deaths IMHO.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Fairiedust - 09-22-2005

Emjoy life...make your own choices....eat what you want....do you know why?








your gonna die anyways......how fast and how you want to go is up to you. S'up Hurricane Rita...

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Fairiedust - 09-22-2005

Tribal Dragon Wrote:Have you seen anyone die from lung cancer NType?
I have, twice. It's probably one of the most excruciating deaths IMHO.

Pancreatic is more painful...just sayin....metastatic cancer is what it is....
it kills...Ovarian is faster....

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Bill - 09-22-2005

Fairiedust Wrote:Emjoy life...make your own choices....eat what you want....do you know why?

your gonna die anyways......how fast and how you want to go is up to you. S'up Hurricane Rita...

amen sister!

Good news for all you smokers out there! - cLaY - 09-22-2005

Fairiedust Wrote:Emjoy life...make your own choices....eat what you want....do you know why?



your gonna die anyways......how fast and how you want to go is up to you. S'up Hurricane Rita...

RACK it...fuck you TD for bringing down off my high this morning.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Tribal Dragon - 09-22-2005

cLaY Wrote:RACK it...fuck you TD for bringing down off my high this morning.
Just sayin'


Bitches.

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Good news for all you smokers out there! - cLaY - 09-22-2005

Tribal Dragon Wrote:Just sayin'


Bitches.

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^^^ Greatest skit ever on Dave Chappelle...I have never laughed that hard in my life.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - Fairiedust - 09-22-2005

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Good news for all you smokers out there! - snarg - 09-23-2005

ntype Wrote:yabada

- smoking kills
- alcool too
- "fat food" too
- normal and healthy food too now (sup mad cow, sup chicken flew, sup genetically modified vegetables

Basically yes everything could kill you (even if you do too much excercise).

I just say "go fuck you" are we supposed to cut out all the good things in life "because they could arm you ?" hey what about eating seeds and drinkin' pure water only ?

fuck that.


rack the little swiss miss
real sorry i didn't get to meet you while you were in the US

Good news for all you smokers out there! - SanDog - 09-23-2005

Tribal Dragon Wrote:Have you seen anyone die from lung cancer NType?
I have, twice. It's probably one of the most excruciating deaths IMHO.
This is why you should take the liberty of offing yourself if you become afflicted.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - snarg - 09-23-2005

thank you dr kevorkian
what would w and his minions think of this??

Good news for all you smokers out there! - SanDog - 09-23-2005

snarg Wrote:thank you dr kevorkian
what would w and his minions think of this??

I reserve the right to finish my life, on my terms, at time. Keep up this shit posting and it will be sooner rather than later.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - snarg - 09-23-2005

i think that should be your right
but those you support think differently, shit-for-brains

Good news for all you smokers out there! - SanDog - 09-23-2005

snarg Wrote:i think that should be your right
but those you support think differently, shit-for-brains

Just because I like some of the adminstrations directions does not mean I adhere to all their philosophy. Come on, don't be an ass gobbler.

Good news for all you smokers out there! - snarg - 09-23-2005

SanDog Wrote:Just because I like some of the adminstrations directions does not mean I adhere to all their philosophy. Come on, don't be an ass gobbler.

your support for that fucking moron is a constant irritant for me
just because he puts money in your pocket is not enough reason to do so

this country used to be a country of principles
there is no possible rationalization to justify continued support of the idiot