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...
Higher Risk of Dementia for Middle Age Smokers, Diabetics and those Hypertensive
Part of the health crisis is the fact that we do not take care of ourselves. Our choices today WILL affect our health and life expectancy later. More proof, in the August 19 Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, it is reported that those who smoke, or suffer from hypertension...