Times just keep changing regarding smoking – or nonsmoking. I still think back to my high school that had a brand new, freshly painted room with a midnight blue shag-carpet for a smoking lounge for “students,” and cigarettes were a mere .50 cents a pack…the same price as a box of Girl Scout Cookies. It was better than the stuffy lounge for teachers.
Or back in the 80s when I worked downtown at a prominent office building that had a very nice room for smokers…which came soon after smoking had been allowed at people’s desks.
Smoking is bad for everyone, but in this blog post...men, if you smoke, you should especially take note.
"Smokers not only die younger but they have a poorer quality of life than those who never smoked. Everyone knows smoking isn't good for you, but now Finnish researchers report that men who This deterioration in quality of life continues even after quitting. In fact, heavy smokers typically have the health-related quality of life of someone 10 years older than themselves, the researchers said.
"An especially large negative effect was seen for heavy smokers [more than 20 cigarettes daily], who lost about 10 years of their life expectancy, and those who survived experienced a significant decline in their quality of life," said lead researcher Dr. Arto Y. Strandberg, from the University of Helsinki.
The report was published in the Oct. 13 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine."
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