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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

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On Sat, 08 Apr 2017 23:00:31 +0100,  wrote:

> On 2017-04-08 20:36:44 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>
>> 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.
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/22/obituaries/james-f-fixx-dies-jogging-author-on-running-was-52.html>

Did you read this paragraph?

The irony was not lost on Fred Lebow, the president of the New York Road Runners Club and the guiding light of the New York City Marathon. ''We know running doesn't cause heart attacks and may, in fact, prolong life,'' Mr. Lebow said from Chicago, where he is attending a triathlon competition. ''What I'm concerned about now is all those people who talk about the danger of running. What does this prove to them? Sure, we have people dying in Central Park, one or two a year while running. But I'm sure more people die on the golf course or watching the Yankees play baseball. Maybe if Jim Fixx didn't run, he'd have died five years ago.''

So not the running, most likely because he was overweight previously.

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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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