We are told that the Japanese are a healthy and long lived race.
Yet they are great smokers; about 60% of adults smoke.
(and they love their booze)
*goes back to SPSS*
Men who never smoke live longer, better lives than heavy smokers
http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=143132483
Health-related quality of life appears to deteriorate as the number of cigarettes smoked per day increases, even in individuals who subsequently quit smoking, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Smoking has been shown to shorten men's lives between seven and 10 years, according to background information in the article. It also has been linked to factors that may reduce quality of life, including poor nutrition and lower socioeconomic status.
Arto Y. Strandberg, M.D., of the University of Helsinki, and colleagues followed 1,658 white men born between 1919 and 1934 who were healthy at their first assessment, conducted in 1974. Participants were mailed follow-up questionnaires in 2000 that assessed their current smoking status, health and quality of life. Deaths were tracked through Finnish national registers.
During the 26-year follow-up period, 372 (22.4 percent) of the men died. Those who had never smoked lived an average of 10 years longer than heavy smokers (more than 20 cigarettes per day). Non-smokers also had the best scores on all health-related quality of life measures, especially those associated with physical functioning. Physical health deteriorated at an increasing rate as the number of cigarettes smoked per day increased, with heavy smokers experiencing a decline equivalent to 10 years of aging.
We are told that the Japanese are a healthy and long lived race.
Yet they are great smokers; about 60% of adults smoke.
(and they love their booze)
So what does this mean?
There's a whole little ritual involved in rolling your own cigarettes, almost as satisfying as smoking the things. A sort of temporarily deferred gratification._Lizard23_ said:Indeed, roll-ups are the health-food option in cigarettes
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balding13 said:Reading your beautiful prose transported me back over thirty years, to the Essex tobacconist, where I could purchase Balkan Sobranie, Black Russian and other exotic smokin smoking comestibles. Regarding the thread topic, when I worked for a Japanese company (the largest telco in the world) everyone smoked, but Japanese people drink very little. Two pints of stella would have them paralytic and near dead the next day. As an ethnic Irishman I have to grudgeingly admit it's actually the healthy way to regard booze.
What's probably more important is the Japanese mindset.
millomite said:balding13 said:Reading your beautiful prose transported me back over thirty years, to the Essex tobacconist, where I could purchase Balkan Sobranie, Black Russian and other exotic smokin smoking comestibles. Regarding the thread topic, when I worked for a Japanese company (the largest telco in the world) everyone smoked, but Japanese people drink very little. Two pints of stella would have them paralytic and near dead the next day. As an ethnic Irishman I have to grudgeingly admit it's actually the healthy way to regard booze.
What's probably more important is the Japanese mindset.
Japanese do not have the enzyme to breakdown ethanol like us westerners and so they suffer the effects quicker and for longer - so i understand.
Kondoru said:And then theres snuff....