Many people were surprised by news that 24-year-old singer Amy Winehouse had been diagnosed with “signs of emphysema” — isn’t that the kind of smoking-related disease usually associated with older chain-smokers?
But doctors say Winehouse’s condition isn’t uncommon: The cardiovascular damage from smoking can start early, even among teens with a five-cigarette-a-day habit, and the diminished lung capacity can be permanent.
Teenagers who think they’re immortal need to understand that they will pay a heavy price for smoking, and perhaps sooner than they think.
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OH MY GOD at least be HONEST Randy! She’s got emphysema from smoking CRACK.
Nice catch, “Political_mama” –
Perhaps Randy can spin the issue this way –
Runway Tractor Carrying Potatoes Mashes Car (Associated Press)
A farmer in Germany has learned a harsh lesson about the dangers of smoking. While he ducked into a convenience store to buy cigarettes, his parked tractor and its load of 25 tons of potatoes went rolling down a hill – and over a parked car.
Randy is honest. Cigarette smoking is not without harm if one is smoking crack. All smoking is harmful except cigars. Which I smoke.
Certainly the crack added to the damage done by smoking cigarettes. That being said, smoking cigarettes is at least partially responsible for her early signs of emphysema. And yes this should be a lesson for young people. And the lesson is to avoid smoking anything damaging to their bodies. And cigarettes are the number one culprit in this area.
Randy on his non smoking high horse today?
Yes Editors…we know that smoking is not good for you the actual smoker.
But quit pushing the nonsense about 2nd hand smoke. Remember its the “Dose that Makes the Poison”.
Smoking provides a multiple thousands of times larger “dose” than 2nd hand smoke.
Even then it usually takes 30 years of actually smoking to initiate disease and then it only does so in a small percentage of smokers.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=23399&CFID=3892739&CFTOKEN=86028232
Some explanation of the data here , and why the EPA wrote the report the way they wanted it to come out BEFORE the study was done. Then changed the data to match. And got caught by the Federal Judge.
Hey Phil, do you booze it up? Drink caffeine? Just wondering how pure your body is.
Why is Amy Winehouse?
Oops, I meant to say, “Who is Amy Winehouse?”
Any winehouse is a great london blues singer. Go to UTube and punch her up. Her music is totally good although she’s probably going to die young like Janis Joplin. But she’s just as good.
I’m sure it is possible for younger smokers to get emphysema at a younger age but it probably progresses faster when the person is also smoking crack!.