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The ideology is that tobacco is deadly in any form and that, as in the case of any ideology, is not open for discussion. Supporters of the extinction of tobacco, however, go the great extents to state that they are based on science and not ideology, although their science is epidemiology which, by definition, cannot establish causality so it is not science. Be that as it may, the same “science” “demonstrates” that tobacco smoking has a remarkable list of benefits to health. That list is, of course, the tightest taboo of the antismoking propaganda. This section deals with that taboo and implicitly demands a choice. As it is the same “science”, then it is either all junk science or it is all good science. In that case, the benefits of smoking should be highlighted by those very same health “authorities” that yell in our ears that “smoking kills”. But that would be information as opposed to propaganda.

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Smokers With Rheumatoid Arthritis May Have Lower Body Fat Than Nonsmokers

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Author(s): Laurie Barclay
Article Published: 2008
Pop. size: 392 patients (290 women)
Type: Cross Sectional
Published By: Medscape

Keywords: arthritis, rheumatoid, Barclay, benefits, smoking

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Non-smoking: a feature of ulcerative colitis

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Author(s): A. D. Harries, A. Baird, J. Rhodes
Article Published: 1981
Type: Articles and Dissertations
Funding Source: Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Wales
Published By: British Medical Journal, Volume 284, 6 March 1982

Keywords: ulcerative, colitis, Chron, Harries, Baird, Rhodes,

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Cigarette smoking and the incidence of Parkinson's disease in two prospective studies

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Author(s): Miguel A. Hernán, Shumin M. Zhang, Ana M. Rueda-DeCastro, Graham A. Colditz, Frank E. Speizer, Alberto Ascherio
Article Published: 2001
Type: Cohort
Significance: Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Annals of Neurology, Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 780-786

Keywords: therapeutic, parkinson, smoking, Hernán, Zhang, Rueda-DeCastro, Colditz, Speizer, Ascherio

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Prospective Study of Cigarette Smoking and the Risk of Developing Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease

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Author(s): Andrew Grandinetti, David M. Morens, Dwayne Reed, Dorothy MacEachern
Article Published: 1994
Pop. size: 8,006 men, 26-year follow-up study
Risk: RR = 0.39
Type: Follow-up
Significance: Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 139, No. 12: 1129-1138

Keywords: therapeutic, parkinson, smoking, Grandinetti, Morens, Reed, MacEachern

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1989-90 National Health Survey. Lifestyle and Health Australia.

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Author(s): Castles I, Australian Bureau of Statistics. Commonwealth of Australia.
Article Published: 1994
Type: Population
Funding Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Published By: Alan Law, Commonwealth Government Printer, Camberra. Catalogue No. 4366.0.

Keywords: therapeutic, benefits, smoking, Australia, statistics, propaganda, fraud, Castles

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Cigarette Smoking and the Risk of Breast Cancer

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Author(s): Susan Y. Chu, Nancy E. Stroup, Nhyllis A. Wingo, Nancy C. Lee, Herbert B. Peterson and Marta L. Gwinn
Article Published: 1990
Pop. size: 4,720 women aged 20–54 years with newly diagnosed breast cancer identified through population-based tumor registries with 4,682 women randomly selected from the same geographic areas
Risk: RR = 1.2
Type: Population
Funding Source: The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Significance: Statistically Significant Positive

Published By: American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 131, No. 2: 244-253

Keywords: breast, cancer, Chu, Stroup, Wingo, Lee, Peterson, Gwinn

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Glycation of the amyloid b-protein by a nicotine metabolite: A fortuitous chemical dynamic between smoking and Alzheimer’s disease

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Author(s): Tobin J. Dickerson and Kim D. Janda
Article Published: 2003
Type: Experimental and Technical
Funding Source: "We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Laura Pasternack for helpful discussions and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Grant F31 DA-15973 to T.J.D.) and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology for financial support."
Significance: No Risk Estimate Reported

Published By: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America

Keywords: Parkinson, Alzheimer, nicotine, smoking, protection, Dickerson, Janda

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Does Maternal Smoking Hinder Mother Child Transmission of Helicobacter pylori Infection?

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Author(s): Brenner, Hermann; Bode, Günter; Adler, Guido; Rothenbacher, Dietrich
Article Published: 2000
Pop. size: 120,000 inhabitants of Ulm, South Germany
Risk: RR = 0.24; 95% confidence interval = 0.12–0.49
Type: Cross Sectional
Funding Source: "We thank Dietlind Wehrhahn and Ingrid Wörner and the staff of the Public Health Service of Ulm for their support in conduct of this study."
Significance: Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc., Volume 11(1), January 2000, pp 71-75

Keywords: helicobacter, pylori, infection, maternal, smoking, protection, child, children, transmission, lactation, Brenner, Bode, Adler, Rothenbacher

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Cigarette smoking and breast cancer

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Author(s): JA Baron, PA Newcomb, MP Longnecker, R Mittendorf, BE Storer, RW Clapp, G Bogdan and J Yuen
Article Published: 1996
Pop. size: 6,888 cases and 9,529 controls
Risk: RR = 1.00, 1.10
Type: Case-Control
Funding Source: US Public Health Service
Significance: No Risk Change

Published By: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, Vol 5, Issue 5 399-403

Keywords: breast, cancer, association, protection, Baron, Newcomb, Longnecker, Mittendorf, Storer, Clapp, Bogdan, Yuen

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The puzzling association between smoking and hypertension during pregnancy

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Author(s): Zhang J, Klebanoff MA, Levine RJ, Puri M, Moyer P
Article Published: 1999
Pop. size: 9651 healthy primigravid women
Risk: RR = 0.6 for gestational hypertension; 0.5 for preeclampsia
Type: Cohort
Significance: Statistically Significant Negative

Published By: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Dec;181(6):1407-13

Keywords: Zhang, Klebanoff, Levine, Puri, Moyer, hypertenion, preeclampsia, pregnancy, women, protection

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