While Cigarette smoking can cause cancer and a host of other assorted respiratory/circulatory ailments, it seems that Nicotine – the compund that hooks you to the cancer stick, – has beneficial effects. It wards off the onset of a host of mental degenerative diseases like Alzheimers’, Parkinsons and schizophrenia. The full report is here.
So I guess the next time anyone is given gyan for lighting up …… the excuse is readymade. They will find a cure for cancer by the time i get there, this is to make sure that i don’t land up with alzheimers:)