Smoking “rots” the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King’s College London.
That sound you hear, that scritching, scraping sound; that’s the bottom of the barrel, that is…
I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. One has never touched my lips, yet I find my memory fails me on a fairly regular basis. Indeed, I have to run an errand this morning that I would not have to do if I had remembered something on Saturday. There was me thinking it was because I was getting older and it was smoking all along. Must be third hand smoke, I guess.
Know exactly what you mean LR. Sometime I go upstairs and can’t remember what it is I went up there for. So I usually go outside for a ciggie and by the time I’m done I’ve remembered what it was I went upstairs for.
So contrary to the report, I’d say that smoking aids memory (plus they seem to have forgotten that the incidence of Alzheimer’s is lower in smokers than non-smokers)
Possibly true, although, if it is, it will never be admitted.
I was always under the impression that nicotine aided memory, I think I can remember the studies…
Oh, hold on…
“Must be third hand smoke, I guess.”
Could be virtual smoke. Maybe smokers have been reading your blog.
That must be it.
“You Couldn’t Make it Up” – But that’s the point; they DO!
This is just another biased tobacco CONTROL ‘study’ – ‘science’ to support an agenda, intended to negate older, independent studies. Book burning but more sophisticated!
Check this one out;
http://dengulenegl.dk/English/Nicotine.html
Looking at the summary, which indicates that smoking was so central to the research that it only mentions it as an aside towards the end it, this looks like someone cherry-picking data out of the report, and is a classic case of ‘correlation != causation.’
One has never touched my lips, yet I find my memory fails me on a fairly regular basis.
LOL – you and me both and a few other things as well.
I take drugs to forget….that’s ok then.
I drink to forget….yep that’s ok too.
I smoke to forget…wait, what ?
Can’t wait to see that one tried as an excuse for committing a heinous crime…y’know, ‘cos the perpetrator was in the process of blotting out a terrible childhood trauma and simply couldn’t help themselves due to the overwhelming physical and mental effects of nicotine.
And why not….it works for alcohol and cannabis, doesn’t it ? 😐