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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

From	"James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject	Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.
Date	2017-04-08 21:36 +0100
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On Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:15:12 +0100, Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 2017-04-08 12:36, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:52:54 +0100, Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-04-08 11:04, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>>>
>>> I wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Actually, the most common smoking-caused death is by heart attack.
>>>>> Anecdote:
>>>>> A doc I knew did some professional brush-up at the Mayo Clinic's cardiac
>>>>> unit in Chicago. This was about 35 years ago. He told me that if the
>>>>> incoming patient was under 50, the intern/resident never asked "Do you
>>>>> smoke?" They always asked "How much do you smoke?." The three weeks my
>>>>> acquaintance was there, no patient claimed they didn't smoke.
>>>> Odd, I thought it was the lungs it damaged.
>>>
>>> So did I, until I found out otherwise. Lung cancer is "obviously" linked
>>> to smoking (and other lung-contaminants, such as VOCs, which synergise
>>> with smoking). Heart attacks? Not so much.
>>
>> I know many people who have died of heart attacks.  Most were non smokers.  Isn't the usual cause a bad diet?
>
> Bad genes.

If you're obese, you're pretty much going to have one.

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-08 16:04 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-08 11:52 -0400
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-08 17:36 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-08 16:15 -0400
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-08 21:36 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-08 15:00 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-08 23:18 +0100

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