Smokers, doing our bit for medicine:

Posted on February 3, 2014 by KG

‘Transplant patients who are given smokers´ lungs are just as likely to survive as those who receive organs from non-smokers, a study has revealed. Nearly half of recipients were given the lungs of heavy smokers–with a fifth coming from donors who had smoked one packet of cigarettes or more a day for at least 20 years. But despite this, they were just as likely to be alive for up to three years after transplantation as those who had received non-smokers´ organs. Astonishingly, some patients even had higher survival rates–with more than 90 percent of smoking donors´ lungs alive after one year…’      source

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4 Responses to Smokers, doing our bit for medicine:

  1. Mathew says:
    February 4, 2014 at 06:11

    It always amazes me how the people who despise smoking have nothing to say about alcohol, weed or other hard drugs. They’re quite happy about needle injecting rooms and such.

    They love to jack up the price of smokes, to discourage people from smoking, but when the cigarette black market starts to thrive, nothing to say about that either.

  2. Pascal says:
    February 4, 2014 at 14:20

    This story is funny for another reason. It so runs contrary to popular perception (and insurance actuarial tables) that it calls into question the science. Is the study run by the same kind of scientists that back CAGW, or has the anti-tobacco “science” been run by the same sort of consensus cabal? Pissed off citizens ought to be clamoring for some scalps. Or at least tar and feathers.

  3. dondiego says:
    February 4, 2014 at 14:56

    I got a couple of people thinking about the warnings, specifically:”Smoking causes 80% of lung cancer”.
    I’d say picture a hospital room, 10 beds with lung cancer patients, 8 are smokers. How many more (than two) of them were going to get lung cancer wether they smoked or not :?:

  4. thor42 says:
    February 4, 2014 at 16:09

    Quite amazing research!

    It suggests that the ol’ body is often a lot more robust than we think it is. This definitely surprised *me*…… :)