Sitting and Smoking, Revisited
With many of the restrictions placed on the general population during COVID-19, there were greater levels of sedentary behavior such as sitting. While sitting has often been heralded as the “new smoking”, this is...
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Smoking and Men’s Health
The statistics on the harm smoking does keep rolling in: Smoking causes more deaths annually in the USA than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries and firearm-related incidents, combined. More than...
Higher Lifetime Risk of Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm for Smokers
A November 2016 Medscape article from University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, reports: "Smoking is a very strong risk for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). 15,000 middle age subjects were followed from 1987 to 2013. Over this...