The pharmagological benefits of smoking have been acknowledged for centuries. Those Indians weren’t smoking because of a Joe Camel ad.
Since anti-tobacco, however, became the major tenet of the healthist religion, benefits to smoking have been exiled to narrow niche occupied by researchers. When, as time to time it does, a study again throws more light on how tobacco use wards of disease, extreme care must be exercised to make sure that the researcher purge himself from any suspicion that he is pro-smoking.
Dr. Elio F. Gagliano comments on the latest that in a growing body of evidence that finds smoking helps prevent Parkinson’s disease. He rightly marvels that the researcher, supposedly a man of science, must bow down to the idol of Big Health that decrees nothing must interfer with the goal of eradicating smoking from the face of the earth.
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