QUOTE(Malleus @ Thu 12th November 2009, 12:43am)
You'll get no argument from me. I've never smoked, but my wife does and she's a professional pharmacologist, with a PhD. She's often pointed that there's actually no very convincing study on the harmful effects of smoking. Or even, come to that, any bad effects from driving after having consumed a moderate amount of alcohol. In fact some studies seem to suggest that it's actually beneficial. Or so I'm led to believe.
So your wife is an expert. According to some people here, she should write the Wikipedia article on the effects of smoking, and would do a better job than people who are not expert pharmacologists and can only cite reliable sources by say Sir Richard Doll, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, Sir Richard Peto ...
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