Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930 at the age of 71.
[...] Why did Doyle die so young?
He was so rich, and was a Medical Man.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930 at the age of 71.
Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh HenHanna:
> [...] Why did Doyle die so young?
> He was so rich, and was a Medical Man.
>
>
> >>> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930 at the age of 71.
Doyle was a smoker who died of a heart attack at 71. This is completely unremarkable, and still happens today even if patients get on cholesterol-lowering medication early and have everything managed according to
best medical practice.
On 7/9/2024 4:23 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh HenHanna:
> [...] Why did Doyle die so young?
> He was so rich, and was a Medical Man.
>
> >>> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930 at the age of 71.
Doyle was a smoker who died of a heart attack at 71. This is completely
unremarkable, and still happens today even if patients get on
cholesterol-lowering medication early and have everything managed
according to
best medical practice.
Thanks.
i wonder if he noticed any early signs.
"Lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors took
special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a
once-in-a-lifetime oddity. Mechanisation and mass marketing towards
the end of the 19th century popularised the cigarette habit,
however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic. Cigarettes were
recognised as the cause of the epidemic in the 1940s and 1950s..."
I read a lot of science fiction from the 1940s and 1950s, and there one
finds that in the far distant future, in the days of the Galactic
Empire, for example, almost everyone smokes.
[...] I read a lot of science fiction from the 1940s and 1950s, and there one finds that in the far distant future, in the days of the Galactic Empire, for example, almost everyone smokes.
That's how the writers of the 1940s saw it. Nonsmokers were rare, and
seen as a bit nonconformist. Nobody seems to have predicted the
situation we have today, where smokers find a need to smoke in secrecy,
and everyone avoids them because they stink. We've had a rapid change in attitudes.
Nicotine is a fascinating molecule. It is a mild stimulant that improves cognition and problem-solving, and I think it’s plausible that its effect was
part of the pace of economic development and raising GDP per capita in the 20th
century.
I do not endorse smoking, it is bad for you. I am not intrinsically negative about nicotine replacement therapy or vaping.
Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Nicotine is a fascinating molecule. It is a mild stimulant that
improves cognition and problem-solving, and I think it’s plausible
that its effect was part of the pace of economic development and
raising GDP per capita in the 20th century.
Back then the tobacco was 'cleaner' than it is today.
I do not endorse smoking, it is bad for you. I am not intrinsically
negative about nicotine replacement therapy or vaping.
I am negative about nicotine replacement therapy or vaping - about
nicotine as such but also about the uncontrolled additives the
products come with. If the nicotine was clean, it would be less
harmful than cigarettes.
Vapes are the tobacco industry's new method of sucking children into
addiction.
not sure if it's the additives. it was marketed as less harmful for
quite a while, so I think people just used it heavier because it didn't matter.
I was kind of shocked when one of my colleagues during nightshift just
vaped indoors.
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