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Dear Mary Vass, Please, let me clear something up. Charles would be horrified to think anyone thought he was a smoker. I'm (Sharon O'Hara) the guilty one. My heartfelt thanks to : "Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network!" I've faxed many sheets of worthwhile information to family in Norway. Sharon O'Hara I just read Charles O'Hara's thoughtful message about smoking and had to > respond. There seem to be a number of smokers on the list who also have > PD, so obviously it's not a guaranteed solution!!! I am working on trying to > encourage a friend in his rather tenative decision to stop smoking by his >birthday, which is Dec. 1, and certainly any possible mild protection against > PD that he might lose is far outweighed by reducing his chances of lung >cancer, stroke, heart disease, and all the other diseases associated with >smoking. I hope there will be a lot of research done on this connection >but that it won't encourage anyone to start smoking or delay a decision to >quit. > Mary Vass, who has lots of other vices and achieves empathy with > her smoking friends by trying to imagine giving up chocolate :-) > >