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Heavy Smoking Linked to Alzheimer’s in Study

MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) — Heavy smoking in middle age seems to increase the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia, a large new study suggests.

“We found that people who reported heavy smoking in midlife had more than a 100 percent increase in risk of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia,” said lead researcher Rachel A. Whitmer, a research scientist in Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.

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How to tell someone you love to stop smoking?

My Dad smokes all the time, he always tell me and my siblings never ever do them. But I know that smoking leads to lung cancer and eventually death, I am very worried about his life style, I see many cigarette packs in the car and I can get the guts to tell him to stop. What do I do?

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How is encouraging people to stop smoking by raising taxes supposed to raise money for health care?

Lets think this through. Raising taxes is supposed to do two things:

1) Get people to stop smoking.
2) Raise money for health care.

If #1 is successful, what happens to the health care funding?
Remember the funding often goes to unrelated issues like child health care, not always to smoke prevention.

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