How to STOP smoking while you have Parkinson's

[Sci Medical & Health]

One Swedish study gives another excuse for you to not STOP smoking. Any comments mate, since Im not that tabbaco user. May the Parkinson's will not be with you.

Health warning: smoking may be good for Parkinson's

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Tobacco may have at least one virtue -- that of providing some protection against the onset of Parkinson's disease, according to a new Swedish study.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden's leading medical research center, looked at the medical and death records of sets of Swedish twins, in which one smoked and the other did not.

"Many studies have shown a protective effect of cigarette smoking on Parkinson's disease," said the study published online this month by the Annals of Neurology -- but many have argued that this may have been due to genetic factors.

By studying twins with different life styles, the researchers said they sought to exclude the genetic factor.

They found no association between Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition, and alcohol, coffee or place of residence.

But smokers appeared to be less affected, which the researchers said, confirmed "the protective effect of smoking on Parkinson's disease" and established that the association "is only partially explained by genetic and familial environmental factors.

9T9: Maybe good for this, but still bad for others. Primary and secondary smokers are riskless for 101 health complication.