'Drinking is healthy for lazy smokers'
source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/drinking-is-healthy-for-lazy-smokers/2008/09/16/1221330837...
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In what the Sydney Morning Herald describe as the 'most unfair medical finding this year,' a UK scientist has apparently discovered that "smokers with the worst diets and poorest exercise habits could consume as many as 14 standard drinks a week," and still lower their risk of heart disease compared to not drinking at all.
According to Michael Marmot, who conducted the study, the lazy, unhealthy smokers can't just increase the amount they drink in the hope it will reduce their heart-attack risk, as "Greater quantities were less beneficial, though still better for those people than being teetotal."
The much healthier non-smokers who eat properly and drink moderately (compared to not at all) put themselves at a higher risk of heart disease, but that their 'absolute risk' was still obviously much lower.
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Bwittany
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Best news i've heard all night!
- 4 years ago
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Bwittany
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jimwiz3416
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I didn't make the cut for the "lazy, unhealthy smoker" study - but hopefully I'll have a shot at "horny, balding whiner" or the more competitive but prestigious "unemployed, internet-addicted fukc-up..."
Sigh... To dream... the impossible dream...
- 4 years ago
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jimwiz3416
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starr111
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No matter what smoking is the worst thing ever! this may seem funny, but really people who stay active and don't smoke are healthier and happier. No doubt! I am a relatively young and active smoker and I would be running miles and miles if I did quit! Maybe this article helped me quit sooner!
- 4 years ago
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starr111
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Nancyf
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starr111:
Little miss goody-two-shoes, you are idealistic now but wait 'til ur older. You'll start back. Anyway, I have found non-smokers to be some of the most boring unintellectual people I have ever met. Makes me wonder what kind of people you know. Why do you think everyone should be alike and bow down to other people's opinion? That is ANTI-Democratic. And Anti-American i might add.
- 4 years ago
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Nancyf
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AlinaJette
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I am a smoker, but I am not lazy and I love fruit and vegetables. This article seems to have the impression that smoking and otherwise healthy are mutually exclusive.
- 4 years ago
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AlinaJette
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Nancyf
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Smoking doesn't necessaryly give you cancer. That is a lot of bogus propaganda to make more TAXES off people! The article didn't even mention cancer. I had a friend who worried most of her life that she was going to get cancer and she died young. Wanna know what from? A heart-attack!
- 4 years ago
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Nancyf
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Buttons44
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Nancyf:
Smoking has long been the easier "scapegoat", no need to harm the economony by admitting that the chemicals all are surrounded by in othr "products" that have becme "stapples' and projected as enviable acroutements of ones daily life is in anyway "harmful" ..Your home is filled with toxins due to toxic materials in your carpeting, furniture, utensils, cookware, clothing and the very housing material used to build that shelter and decorate that shelteredplace that you live in and amongst. One example , the formalglhyde in carpeting and mother materials or how about that teflon coated cookware that chips off more than acknowledge or that bottle of water in its pastic container or even the baby bottle filled with juice or the teether or the freshly DRY CLEANED suit slipped on from the hanger in your closet that emitted fumes and etc while even briefly enclosed there...The list could go , how about the processing of your food..and that includes produce shipped in from other areas allowed time for transport from fields that have used chemicals , allow time for sitting in the wharehouse before distribution and consider what healthful or nutritional benefits are compromised ...Hard to remember any too many getting sicken from a quick grab from the home grown garden such as what has happen when folks eat contaminated strawberries , slice a melon whose outer surface contamination is sprread to the inside by that slice or how about dying from green onions or that burger...Concentration directedc at the irritant smoke curl, but how about the hair products or nail polish or even lipstick and eye enhancements or body percings with unclean apparatusses...Could list on and on but again, smokers are easier targets and confines the damage to the market and profit lines which is priority number one. Could add to the list the various pharmy's that are lauded as "goog" for ya, but killers to your bodies natural systems but then that only gives market to another chemical to claim able to correct that other manufactured in another lab and , blah, blah, blah...Smoking in essence gets rather a bad rap and is THE prime scapegoat ..other pollutants are far more dangerous ,just too damaging to profit lines so hence, ignorable as profit comes first and foremost despite consequences that include even death from other than natural causes unless call consumtives, willing or elsewise, natural.
- 4 years ago
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Buttons44
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teto007
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aww cmon guys this cant seriously be that disturbing
- 4 years ago
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teto007
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luckysnorkel
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My dad is a textbook example of the kind of person who is probably benefitting from this. Except, he already had a heart attack......
- 4 years ago
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luckysnorkel
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ilryn
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so...my boss is going to be around longer. At his rate i would have figured 2 years tops, now this!
- 4 years ago
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ilryn
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LindseyIndigo
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"...you have to be a lazy smoker with an aversion to fruit and vegetables..." Ooh, that's me, that's me!
Hang on a minute. According to this study? I'm healthy because I smoke, healthy because I'm lazy, unhealthy because I eat greens (I don't really have an aversion to vegetables) and unhealthy because I drink hardly anything? Note to self: take new health surveys with a pinch of salt. Or, er, low-salt.
- 4 years ago
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LindseyIndigo
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sweens
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Does this include mary jane
- 4 years ago
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sweens
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blood77
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Well the thing is that even if it does lower your risk of heart disease all that extra drinking will harm your liver and your kidneys.
- 4 years ago
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blood77
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Nettle
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Nah, I'm not falling for it. We don't know who he studied, how long he studied them for or anything else. Sounds like complete bs to me.
- 4 years ago
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Nettle
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joshuaheller
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Alright it's a challenge. I'll stop eating produce. And start smoking!
- 4 years ago
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joshuaheller
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Swiyyah
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So no less risk of heart disease but they get cancer? I still wouldn't want to smoke.
- 4 years ago
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Swiyyah
