Sun, 24 Sep 2006

Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection

Well, here's a doozy of a nominee for this weeks Study in Stupidity - I'm equally sure that you could make the statistical case (with enough number crunching) that smoking causes male pattern baldness, impotence, the heartbreak of psoriasis, chicken pox and was probably responsible for the election of Bill Clinton or George Bush depending on the political proclivities of the researcher ...

This is a really transparent ploy on the part of AIDS researchers to get some of that "anti-tobacco" money floating around - too transparent to be taken seriously.

Smokers may be at greater risk of HIV infection than nonsmokers, reveals an analysis of published research issued ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.Cigarette smoking has already been linked to a higher than normal chance of contracting other infections generally, including those that have been sexually transmitted.

(link) [EurekAlert! - Breaking News]

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On 9/28/2006 12:24:36
Arwin wrote

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