A new report by U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin says that exposure to tobacco smoke – no matter how small – causes immediate damage to your body that can lead to serious illness or death. The report, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable...
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Smoking and Alzheimers Linked
Smoking more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.A Kaiser Permanente studyæreported that an analysis of more than 20,000 men and women, studied since 1978, found a 157 percent heightened risk of Alzheimer’sæfor people who smoked two packs or more a day. For vascular dementia, which is the...