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Placebo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:22 PM Original message |
Study finds smoking wards off Parkinson's disease |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. but what about smoking pot? |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hmmm ... lung cancer/emphysema or Parkinsons? |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Beat me to it |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I watched COPD kill my mother |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 06:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Sorry about your mom. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 09:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Hey, I think I beat you in the flippant department |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 09:59 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. And then, unless we change the Health Care system |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe it's something simple, like the nicotine. |
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NastyDiaper (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:41 PM Original message |
Maybe because you die younger, and the degenerative |
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NastyDiaper (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
6. Maybe because you die younger, and the degenerative |
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NastyDiaper (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. Maybe because you die younger, and the degenerative |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Did you trade Parkinson's for Alzheimer's? |
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NastyDiaper (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 01:44 AM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Maybe I'm missing something? |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:27 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. I think you did miss the joke |
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NastyDiaper (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 09:03 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Omg. I didn't notice. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Let's find out. How old are you? |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. Is it true that stem cells may fight the aging process? |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Death halts the aging process. nt |
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Placebo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:50 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. But only for so long. |
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Sapere aude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Take your choice, parkinson's, emphysema or cancer. |
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MidwestTransplant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. They die before Parkinsons sets in. |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. My 96-year-old grandmother... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 06:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Uh, what did those others die of? |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 05:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
36. All the men on my dad's side--including my dad & his dad |
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ovidsen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. Not worth the tradeoff |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
18. Let me guess. The Tobacco indusrty secretly financed these results |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. PIFFLE |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
21. You Know, My Doc Tells Me I'm Not Getting Enough Tar In My Diet! |
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MiserableFailure (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. plenty of higher risks for other diseases though... |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
24. Still not a good reason to start again... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-09-07 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
26. Wait a sec - Michael J. Fox has Parkisons and btw, he was a heavy smoker |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 02:22 AM Response to Original message |
28. Only speculation at best that there's a causal relationship... |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
29. Research brought to you by Phillip Morris (?) |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
30. Coffee protects you, too. 3-5 cups a day for your adult life--you'll never get Parkinson's. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
33. Smokem' if you gottem'! nt |
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Speaker (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
34. Perhaps by increasing cerebral blood flow? |
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ovidsen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
35. What about Kate? |
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