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the research was about nicotine and didnt indicate that smoking was the was to access the nicotine patches were suggested judy >From: Hilary Blue <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: NON- PD:Ken's song / tobacco road >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:49:33 -0400 > >burt, my husbnd, started smoking at age 15, in the mid fifties; he died 5 >years ago aged 52, of lung cancer. My struggles with pd, and with the >authorities certainly werent helped by his smoking! > >hilary > >janet paterson wrote: > > > > dad died in 1977, but we still have his 'ditty' ['kit-ty?'] box from his > > service days > > which still contains a fascinating collection of curios and mementos > > including a water-tight silver case > > for holding 'lucifers' > > > > this creates an interesting link to yet another news story about smoking > > which i am about to post > > > > my father started smoking when he was 14 - > > [hah! > > i just realised that > > that was when he arrived in canada and went to work on a farm in ontario > > in a type of indentured-labour plan in exchange for free-passage to 'the > > new world'] > > - and he died of throat cancer in 1977 when he was 68 > > > > so all of those tales linking possible benefits connecting smoking >tobacco > > and pd > > don't hold much water in this bucket! > > [not to pre-judge any compelling research in the area! > > > > janet > > smoke-free since 1970 > > > > janet paterson > > 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset > > a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ > > 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com