Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Not even one cigarette
New research in the Lancet of Aug 19 shows that even smoking only 1-2 cigarettes a day increases the risk of acute myocardial infarction in the INTERHEART study – as well as chewing tobacco. Although the investigators tested nearly everything (no benefit also by beedies and sheesha!) they missed Bavarian snuff, yea, yea.
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[...] You may renember the homunculus – a projection of body functions on brain areas. There is an interesting clinical[1] extension stemming from 69 stroke patients of which 15 immediately, easily and permanently quit smoking. One patient said that his “body forgot the urge to smoke”. Sure, this analysis may still be somewhat confounded by the fact that certainly more areas are usually destroyed – but there are interesting approaches that could be followed up, the authors speculate about influencing sensory airway representation, neurotransmitter therapy and monitoring of smoking cessation programs. So stroke may help to quit smoking[2] but I think there are better ways to do that. Seems that Science won this race with Nature[3] Yea, yea. [...]