[hmmmm ... the antis want to be the only "cure" for smoking, they will not support alternatives, unless ... it has some payday for them. They figure they can't corner the red wine market. As for red wine, it's being touted and getting big play right now as the cure all for heart disease, whether you smoke or not. I have seen these "cure" come and go ... so depending on, whether or not, you like red wine, you may want to wait for the next "cure".]



"Red wine counteracts smoking: study

August 31, 2003

"Drinking red wine while having a cigarette can counteract the harmful effects smoking has on the arteries, a study presented at an international cardiology conference has shown.

Previous research has shown that smoking just one cigarette can cause significant dysfunction of the arteries lasting up to an hour.

But a Greek study presented at the European Society of Cardiology in Vienna found having two glasses of red while smoking one cigarette counteracted the immediate effects on the blood vessels.

Releasing the finding, John Lekakis of Alexandra Hospital in Athens said it could be the starting point for developing medicines that protected nicotine addicts from the harmful effects of their habit.

"Our findings showed that two 250ml glasses of red wine suspend the harmful effect of one cigarette and leads us to further investigate constituents of red wine that could reverse arterial dysfunction caused by smoking," he said.

But Professor Andrew Tonkin, director of health, medical and scientific affairs at the National Heart Foundation of Australia, said the emphasis should be on helping people quit rather than protecting smokers against themselves.

"At the Foundation we don't believe there's any safe level of smoking," he told AAP.

"It's extremely important as one of the preventative factors of heart disease and we need to be helping people stop rather than giving them medicine."

THE AGE

[This message was edited by John L on Sun August 31 2003 at 03:27 PM.]

Maybe Wanda can refresh my memory. Wasn't there someone from the CDC who owned or was involved in a winery somewhere?

It seems a couple of years back this came up.

Help me Wanda, Help me Wanda

It wasn't the CDC; it was one of the higher-ups at the U.S. Public Health Service whose family was in the California wine business. Yeah, and just so happened that wine suddenly was good for you.

"It's extremely important as one of the preventative factors of heart disease and we need to be helping people stop rather than giving them medicine."

Don't let Big Pharma hear you saying that. They claim their nicotine medicine is the only way to stop. Just ask my brother, he's been chewing that gawd awful gum of theirs for four years now.

Wine sounds better than gum

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Originally posted by Jackie Miller:
Wine sounds better than gum

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I can't argue with that!!!!!!!!!!!!

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