I have had a wellness oriented practice of medicine for over 30 years. My patients and readers all know that.
In the early 1980s I realized from evidence that was obvious in the medical literature even at that time, that smoking was bad for one’s health. I believed that anyone who is coming to me saying they wanted to improve their health, who was still smoking, was lying to themselves.
For that reason, I stopped seeing any new patients who were smoking. Over the years patients with significant health problems quit smoking, so that they could come and visit with me to begin using integrative medicine to improve their health.
Over the last decade now, the evils of smoking that were obvious to me and other physicians in the early 1980s have come to the forefront. Finally, after decades, the government has supported efforts to help people quit smoking.
“The U.S. Surgeon General and other public health authorities around the world have found that smoking damages nearly every organ in the human body and harms health at every stage of life. Yet we are continually learning new ways in which smoking harms health.
In the latest example, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer’s Disease International are reporting, based on a review of scientific studies, that smokers have a 45 percent higher risk of developing dementia compared to nonsmokers. “
This is an astonishing large percentage increase in a devastating disease just from smoking cigarettes.
My only question is “what took them so long?”
If you have a friend or relative who is still smoking, please ask them to quit!
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About Dr. Soram Khalsa
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