Subject:  Re (emf) Smoking may prevent breast cancer..... (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 20 May 1998 163852 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:51:50 -0400
From: jeff.gordon@wellnow.com
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: (emf) Smoking may prevent breast cancer.....

Hi, Roy --

Three quick points on this:

 - I increasingly suspect that lung cancer figures should be 'pegged' to
something dietary (e.g., trans-fatty acids in our food supply) or
environmental (e.g., that substance in diesel fumes that is the most
carcinogenic substance yet found) than to individual cigarette use.  The
scary (but, as usually presented, generally misleading) stats about lung
cancer and smoking appear to be being employed as a 'smoke screen'
obscuring some other culprit regardless of the role cigarette use may
actually play (what we'd call a "red herring": the fish is really there,
but it's distracting us from what we were in fact searching for -- a
likely vector, but not the greatest vector).

 - The article is pointing to a downregulation of estrogen metabolism as
an apparently "good thing" -- with no reference to progesterone or other
hormones.  Is downregulating of estrogen a 'good thing' only because some
related hormone is out-of-balance already?  Why not investigate the cause
of that unbalanced state (probably hidden in plain sight, e.g.,
aspartame?), instead of suggesting 'preventive' tamoxifen would be the way
to go?

 - Statistically there's a reported lower risk of Alzheimer's among
smokers, too. (There's a cadmium increase from smoking; does it compete
with mercury or aluminum, somewhere...?  Dunno....)

 -- Jeff --   

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