On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:47:51 -0400, Retrograde <
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wrote:
It's likely even the doctor smoked back then.
SEE:
https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/
A cancer connection had to be established. I suspect its based upon statistics, and not a scientific accounting.
That said, Helmut Schmidt's immune system (et.al.) was apparently
active against cancer.
Born: December 23, 1918, Barmbek
Died: November 10, 2015, Hamburg, Germany
Former Chancellor of Germany Retains Wit and Smoking Habit at 95
...
...
A heavy smoker, he does as no other mortal may: puff away anywhere, on television, at meetings, even, according to German journalists who
have witnessed it, in Washington. When the European Union threatened
earlier this year to ban menthol cigarettes, Mr. Schmidt's friend Peer Steinbruck reported that the old chancellor had stockpiled 200 cartons
of his favored Reynos -- enough to feed his two-to three-pack-a-day
habit for two or three years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/helmut-schmidt-former-chancellor-of-germany.html
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