{"id":1838,"date":"2014-01-20T19:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T19:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2014-01-20T19:57:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T19:57:48","slug":"more-50-year-anniversary-stories-cigarettes-do-more-than-cause-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"More 50-year anniversary stories: Cigarettes do more than cause lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A-woman-smokes-a-cigarette-in-the-pedestrian-plaza-located-in-Times-Square-AFP\"<\/a>Lots of news outlets are doing 50-year anniversary stories on the Surgeon General’s landmark report. I’m posting links to a couple of them.<\/p>\n

This one is from RawStory<\/a> (Reprinted from a French news service — thanks to Haruko for the link and there she is posting away and a bunch of people shilling ecigs– starting to see these folks all over the Internet, and am starting to wonder how many of them are paid to promote ecigs), about a 50-year anniversary report put out. Two conclusions from this report stood out for me:<\/p>\n

1) Cigarettes are more potent than they’ve ever been.<\/p>\n

2) And this is a big one, there’s a LOT more health risk involved in smoking than just lung cancer. The updated report specifically mentions:<\/p>\n

…. active smoking can cause a common form of blindness called age-related macular degeneration, as well as diabetes, colorectal cancer and liver cancer.<\/p>\n

Smoking can also cause tuberculosis, erectile dysfunction, facial clefts in infants, ectopic pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation, impaired immune function, and worsens the outlook for cancer patients and survivors.<\/p>\n

Those who do not smoke but are exposed to second-hand smoke face an increased risk of stroke, said the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, it’s right there in an official Surgeon General’s report: Smoking increases the risk for macular degeneration, diabetes, erectile dysfunction and arthritis (in particular, I’ve been looking into the ties between arthritis and smoking. Want to do a major post about that soon). This is important to me, because people tend to get hung up on idea that smoking causes lung cancer and that’s it. A lot of information has been coming out in the past 5 years about the connection between smoking and diabetes and arthritis.<\/p>\n

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Lots of news outlets are doing 50-year anniversary stories on the Surgeon General’s landmark report. I’m posting links to a couple of them. This one is from RawStory (Reprinted from a French news service — thanks to Haruko for the link and there she is posting away and a bunch of people shilling ecigs– starting … Continue reading More 50-year anniversary stories: Cigarettes do more than cause lung cancer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,64],"tags":[174,186],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smoking-2","category-surgeon-general","tag-smoking","tag-surgeon-general-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/A-woman-smokes-a-cigarette-in-the-pedestrian-plaza-located-in-Times-Square-AFP.jpg?fit=615%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-tE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1844,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1844","url_meta":{"origin":1838,"position":0},"title":"More 50-year anniversary stories: Smoking has killed 20 million people since 1964","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Another story on the 50-year anniversary of the Surgeon General's, this one from Think Progress. 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