Doctor Recommends Cigarettes for better health!

Posted on January 5, 2008. Filed under: Diseases, Drugs, History of Medicine | Tags: , , , , , |

Doctor recommends smokingThis sounds insane!  A doctor would never recommend that  their patient start smoking for better health, anxiety management or as a remedy for a sore throat right?  FALSE! Not too long ago, medical journals and ladies magazines were full of advertisements which showed a doctor smoking and recommending cigarettes  as treatment for common medical ailments. The days of when tobacco companies and drug companies gave doctors huge incentives are thankfully over. Nowadays, physicians are lucky to get a pen  to write with or a note pad.  Occasionally, a sandwhich and a soda are provided  to listen to a sales pitch, but not much more than that.   

Today,  we now know that cigarettes are responsible for over 500,000 deaths every year, specifically in the form of lung cancer, heart attacks and strokes.  To put that in perspective,  the Vietnam war, which lasted over 10 years saw 54,000 US soldiers die, 10% of what cigarettes kill in 1 year.

Medicines like Chantix have become great options but simple will power  and determination are also important, and a lot cheaper. In either case, if you are a smoker, you really need to quit today as your life will depend on it.

Doctors prefer camel cigarettes

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