Re: Smoking

[sharon o'hara <sharuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mary Vass,
Please, let me clear something up.  Charles would be horrified to think
anyone thought he was a smoker.  I'm (Sharon O'Hara) the guilty one.
My heartfelt thanks to : "Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange
Network!"  I've faxed many sheets of worthwhile information to family in Norway.
Sharon O'Hara

I just read Charles O'Hara's thoughtful message about smoking and had to
> respond.  There seem to be a number of smokers on the list who also have
> PD, so obviously it's not a guaranteed solution!!! I am working on trying to
>  encourage a friend in his rather tenative decision to stop smoking by his
>birthday, which is Dec. 1, and certainly any possible mild protection against
>  PD that he might lose is far outweighed by reducing his chances of lung
>cancer, stroke, heart disease, and all   the other diseases associated with
>smoking.  I hope there will be a lot of research done on this connection
>but that it won't encourage anyone to start smoking or delay a decision to
>quit.
>             Mary Vass, who has lots of other vices and achieves empathy with
>             her smoking friends by trying to imagine giving up chocolate :-)
>
>