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Joao Paulo Carvalho wrote: > >I would like to bring to your knowledge two facts concerned to >cigarettes : one of my uncle by father side(they were 5 brothers) died >of advanced PD around his 80 yrs and always smoked cigarettes.One of his >sons (he had 3) died too of advanced PD around the same age and was a >cigarette smoker also. > >REgards, > > +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + > | [log in to unmask] | > +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+ Well, my mom, who has PD, was quite a light smoker (she used to keep an eye on my smoking as a teenager by sharing her pack with me--and I recall it took a month or more for us to go through it--we really didn't inhale, so never got hooked, thank God!), and she quit cold turkey as soon as the Surgeon General's first warnings came out (in the late 60's, I think). My grandmother and my mother's sister smoked all their lives---neither had PD--my grandmother died of a stroke in her 70's, my aunt of a stroke and heart attack in her 50's. What is kindof sad is, my Mom gave up smoking and now, years later, not only has heart problems and PD, but has a bit of Emphysema! My father gave up smoking at the same time, except for an occasional cigar, and he is a very healthy 75-year old, who jogs every morning and still works! Who says life is fair? :-) NB