Go! Smell the flowers learns about Smoking and Cancer
July 2nd, 2007 by JimWe knew flowers were good for medicine! Er, plants in general anyway. Since our post on smoking led to a bit of a discussion on its health effects we decided to do a little research on cancer and smoking and found some very interesting information over at Research News on Cancer which we’d like to share:
There has been an enzyme discovered in plants that is simliar to enzymes in humans which react to cancer causing agents, leading to increased risk of cancer. Scientists can study these enzymes in plants and apply the knowledge to humans in the fight against cancer. Oh, we’d better watch out for our daisies. They might be taken for medical experimentation. Is there a PETA for Plants?
Alcohol seems to reduce the risks of developing some cancers! Happy days or total myth? So if you’re drinking while you are smoking (not in a public place fo course) are we REALLY cancelling out the carcinogenic effects?
Problems resulting from increased risk of cancer developing from ‘passive smoke’ in the workplace and other places where people smoke seem to be the reason for all this legislation to stop smoking in public, sorry AussieCynic.
So thats why smokers drink and drinker smoke. It all makes sense now!
Please, the avalanche of medical studies and the chite they spout is at epidemic proportions, please review just a few of my favourites.
IPODS: In New York, the pause button could soon be pressed on iPods because someone has decided they’re dangerous. A member of the state Senate, Carl Kruger, has declared war on “iPod oblivion”, introducing a draft law that would make it an offence for anyone to be plugged in when they are crossing the street, punishable with £51 fine.
Source: Independent (9 February 2007)
FISH: More evidence has emerged suggesting a link between pollutants found in oily fish and type two diabetes…However, experts have said that the study is far from conclusive.
Source: BBC News (12 April 2007)
BEING SPIDERMAN: With the new Spiderman 3 movie out in a matter of weeks, doctors are warning parents of imaginative young boys that unrealistic expectations can lead to serious injuries.
Source: Scotland on Sunday (8 April 2007)
MOVING FURNITURE: Employees at the Health and Safety Executive have been banned from shifting furniture in case they injure themselves. Signs which read: ‘Do not lift tables or chairs without giving 48 hours notice to HSE management’, have been put on the walls in several meeting rooms.
Source: Evening Standard (3 April 2007)
SUNDAY ROASTS: Beef packed with hormones could be to blame for fertility problems in a generation of young men, researchers say.
Source: Daily Mail (27 March 2007)
SPORTS GEAR: Experts are warning that sports gear - and even your gym bag - can harbour a host of unpleasant bacteria.
Source: Daily Mail (27 March 2007)
SWEAT: Those playing contact sports, such as rugby and wrestling, could be at risk of contracting hepatitis B through sweat, researchers have said. A study has found that the infection, which can lead to liver damage, cancer and even death, may be passed on in sweat as well as blood.
Source: Scotsman (1 March 2007)
There are so many health studies and theories as to what will make you pop your clogs that they dilute genuine concerns and basically leave us almost imune to hearing them.
Drinking is bad, drinking is good. Eating oily fish is good for your heart but no its also bad.
Face it people something will get you in the end so why not leave it to chance and enjoy yourself. As a famous comedian once said ‘each cigarette takes one day off your life, but the days it takes are the ones where you are peeing yourself in an old peoples home staring out of a window dribelling’ or something like that.
To read the full list of many hundreds of soft arse stories you can visit the pro smoking page of Forest.
http://www.forestonline.org/output/Page297.asp
Lets pull the funding for this kak along with sociology degrees at universities, we could spend the money on small, sound proof cubicles for none smokers to sit in and whine away to their hearts content to each other while we have a pint, smoke and giggle in the real world.
Yikes is it safe to go out? All that info plain old scares me!
fab … stop breathing! LOL really, whats next?
Its called media manipulation ladies, no need to wrry. No different now than it was years before and so it will be. (Evil laugh as Go! smell says)
Nice post! I learned something here!