{"id":3975,"date":"2016-11-18T19:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2016-11-19T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T04:00:12","slug":"report-smoking-will-kill-more-hiv-patients-than-the-virus-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"Report: Smoking will kill more HIV patients who smoke than the virus itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3976\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=3976\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?fit=480%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hqdefault\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?fit=474%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3976\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"hqdefault\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?resize=100%2C75&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a chilling report from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a pretty stark reminder of just how dangerous smoking is.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study involving a computer projection, smoking will actually kill more HIV patients than the virus itself, thanks to the fact that treatment today can effectively contain the HIV virus for years. In fact, a person with HIV has the same life expectancy as a person without it &#8212; if they receive treatment.<\/p>\n<p>From an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/smoking-more-likely-kill-hiv-patients-virus-n677656\"> NBC News article:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smoking is worse, they report in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. On average, smoking cuts six years from the life expectancy of an otherwise healthy 40-year-old with well-controlled HIV, they found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is well known that smoking is bad for health, but we demonstrate in this study just how bad it is,&#8221; Reddy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We actually quantify the risk, and I think providing those numbers to patients can help put their own risks from smoking in perspective. A person with HIV who consistently takes HIV medicines but smokes is much more likely to die of a smoking-related disease than of HIV itself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a chilling report from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a pretty stark reminder of just how dangerous smoking is. According to a study involving a computer projection, smoking will actually kill more HIV patients than the virus itself, thanks to the fact that treatment today can effectively contain the HIV virus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: Smoking will kill more HIV patients who smoke than the virus itself<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/hqdefault.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-127","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4337,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4337","url_meta":{"origin":3975,"position":0},"title":"Mixed signals on smoking and COVID-19","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"May 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't done an update for a while. 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