Smoking

[Psyber]

Here's an interesting one - I don't know any more about it than this, so I am not expressing any opinion on its validity.
It is a secure link which requires a password, so I have justed posted the precis content.

Smoking linked with mid-life cognitive decline 13 Jun 2008 Archives of Internal Medicine vol. 168, pp. 1165-1173.
Reference: Sabia, S. Marmot, M. et al. 2008, ‘Smoking history and cognitive function in middle age from the Whitehall II Study.’

Smoking is associated with poor memory and a loss of reasoning ability in mid-life, supporting the hypothesis that it is also linked with dementia in old age.

The Whitehall II Study recruited about 10,000 public servants in 1985-1988. By the fifth assessment in 1997-1999, when they averaged about 55 years of age, male smokers were twice as likely to have died, and female smokers were 2.5 times as likely to have died, compared to non-smokers.

Cognitive tests at the fifth assessment explored memory, reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency. Compared to never-smokers, current smokers were 37% more likely to be in the lowest quintile for cognitive performance. After adjusting for multiple confounders, they remained at higher risk of having poor memory.

The study also examined changes in cognitive performance between the fifth and seventh assessment, five years later. There was a decline in reasoning ability among smokers during this time.

A recent meta-analysis had concluded that smoking was a risk factor for dementia. However, examining the effect in older people was problematic because studies were necessarily based on those who had ‘survived’ smoking. Investigating changes before the onset of dementia might be more productive, potentially indicating more subtle adverse effects before smokers died of other diseases.

Analyses of smoking were complicated by the fact that smoking habits were now changing markedly throughout life. Public health messages and social pressures had had their desired effect and smoking rates were falling, leaving a substantial number of ex-smokers in the population. The Whitehall II Study found that people who were ex-smokers at baseline had a lower likelihood of cognitive impairments at later assessments, probably because they had also improved other aspects of their health including exercise levels and diet.

[Wedgie]

I would argue with you but I can't remember what I was arguing against and am currently wearing my underpants on my head.

[MagicKiwi]

Cue Sheik!

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Been there done that Gracie. Anyhow, I've got my tinfoil hat on so tight now I don't even know what farging side I'm on.
All I know is that I put a concrete peg straight through some electrical mains the other day & did'nt even register a tingle. Smoking will never harm me, I'm invinsible.

[Booney]

Im in a quintile?And I didnt know it....?

[luvcricket]

Smoking is a disgusting, filthy habit and very selfish to non-smokers.

[Leaping Lindner]

To quote Bill Hicks......"Non smokers die every day."

[RoosterMarty]

Smoking is a disgusting, filthy habit and very selfish to non-smokers.

Non smokers also scab off smokers, you should buy your own.

[Pseudo]

Smoking is a disgusting, filthy habit and very selfish to non-smokers.

As a matter of interest luvcricket, do you prefer Midnight Oil to GANGgajang?

[Punk Rooster]

Smoking is a disgusting, filthy habit and very selfish to non-smokers.

As a matter of interest luvcricket, do you prefer Midnight Oil to GANGgajang?

or This Is Australia to Sounds of Then?

[luvcricket]

Midnight Oil, and also smokers try to 'bum' off non-smokers - always sticking their yellowed gangrenous fingers in our faces with their ashtray breath.; " got a durrie mate".

[Lunchcutter]

OMG this old fecken chestnut again....

[Sheik Yerbouti]

To quote Bill Hicks......"Non smokers die every day."

“The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty ******* cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?”
santiz Bill Hicks quotes

[Dog_ger]

http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Health_Effects_of_Smoking

[Dog_ger]

To be compliant in the Workplace...?

Does your employer have MSDS's for the chemicals that are in your cigarettes...?



I am an OH&S rep....

[Dog_ger]

http://www.tobaccolaws.sa.gov.au/Portals/0/WPA_WorkFactsheet.pdf