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Given all of the knowledge and evidence over decades about the hazards of smoking, it comes down to: did you start smoking because you are stupid, or did smoking make you stupid. More of the former but clearly, both. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/smoking-shrinks-brain-and-quitting-doesnt-restore-size-study
and they call this science!
what about other factors, like diet? Unless all the participants in the study had exactly the same diet, the results are meaningless. More bullshit from the “experts”.
Other studies show dementia and parkinsons are highly correlated to a low fat, high carb diet … which is the current recommended food pyramid!
More bullshit indeed . One of the smartest guys I know has had a 2 pack a day habit for 50 years and he’s 60 years old
So you are going to dismiss the obvious health effects because of an outlier. Sort of like saying that despite what we have seen with the covid vaccines, because not everyone has dropped dead,(yet) they’re safe?
the general health health effects of smoking is not in dispute.
but to link it to brain shrinkage and dementia is another matter. what were the participants eating? could be all those carbs they ate, whilst smoking?
PS: BTW nicotine is an anti-viral, as it blocks ACE 2 receptor to spike protein docking on cells.
My point is that while personal choice is just that and I don’t tell someone what they should or shouldn’t do, it is clear that even though there are geniuses that have smoked and morons who never did, smoking is stupid. You can deny anything and maybe it is still early in research to tell if this report is accurate or not about the effect on the brain. I am sure in the past the same was said of alcohol,(brain,liver etc.) and as I have posted about in the past cell phone radiation on brain and other tissue causing, cancerous tumors.