| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 11 Other health problems |
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| Other health problems: Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, hearing loss |
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| In a study from the Netherlands of people age 65 and older who did not have |
| dementia, those who smoked were more likely to have impairment in short term |
| memory, time and place orientation, attention and calculation compared to people |
| who had never smoked. |
| San Diego Union-Tribune, October 5, 1998 |
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| A medical research organization in the United Kingdom has accepted a donation of |
| $220,000 from British American Tobacco. The money is being used to examine |
| effects of nicotine on the brain and to compare brains of smokers and non-smokers, |
| after several epidemiological studies suggested that smokers may have a lower |
| incidence of Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's disease. |
| British Medical Journal, September 7, 1996, p. 577 |
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| There is an inverse dose-response relationship between Parkinson's disease and |
| smoking, providing indirect evidence that smoking is biologically protective. |
| JAMA, April 7, 1999, p. 1154 |
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| Smoking is protective against Parkinson's disease; 34 of 35 studies show this effect, |
| and it appears not to be an artifact, although the mechanism for the protection is |
| unclear. Current smokers have only 50% of the risk compared to nonsmokers, |
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| and former smokers show intermediate protection. |
| Paul Newhouse, M.D., Tenth National Conference on Nicotine Dependence, |
| Minneapolis, October 17, 1997 |
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