Smoking fights Parkinson's?

[M1903A1]

Originally Posted by illinoishoosier

I call BS.

Apparenlty only cigarettes have the benefit.

Dad was a pipe smoker for at least 35 years. 2 or 3 bowls a day.

Parkinson's diagnosed in 1997. Passed in 2005.

Nice to hear baccy getting a positive spin, though.

I'm inclined to agree. My former shop head at the museum was a cigar smoker, probably since the 50s (5 or 10 a day), and it's been determined that he's had Parkinson's setting in for the last six years.

[Razorhog]

So maybe people should take up smoking so they won't get Parkinson's!
They won't get it because they'll be dead from lung cancer or emphysema or some other horrible disease.