| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 13 Physical fitness and carbon monoxide |
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| Women over age 65 who smoke are weaker and have poorer balance and poorer |
| performance on measures of integrated physical function than nonsmokers. This |
| decline in physical function was 50% to 100% as great as that associated with a five |
| year increase in age, and most measures worsened with increasing number of |
| pack-years of smoking. |
| JAMA, December 21, 1994, p. 1825 |
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| "I'm going to focus on staying as healthy as possible. That means doing regular |
| exercises - but hiking, not running . . . . I don't feel any desire to drink or do coke. |
| Especially coke. I see people drinking wine when I'm out to dinner, and I think, Oh, one |
| glass. But it's better that I don't." Actress Melanie Griffith, early in her third pregnancy, |
| at about the time she was photographed smoking cigarettes. |
| In Style magazine, March 1996 |
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| Well known climber Jim Bridwell was the first to climb El Capitan in Yosemite in one |
| day. "A notorious tobacco fiend, Bridwell has defended his habit by saying it trains his |
| lungs for altitude because it makes his every breath feel as if he's at 8000 meters." |
| Climbing magazine, September 15, 1998, p. 76 |
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| The "record highest altitude for smoking" appears to be held by a Sherpa in Nepal |
| who continued to smoke on three visits to the South Col on Mt. Everest, elevation |
| 8000 meters (over 26,000 feet). |
| from Filming the Impossible, Leo Dickinson, 1982 |
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