The Noodlist wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:59 pm More Eddie Van Halen pick theory.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -pick.htmlSmoking has a lot to answer for. A few years ago, I bumped in to an old workmate, he told me he had suffered a stroke. He was known as an heavy smoker but said it was nothing to do cigarettes.
I know a few people who have suffered strokes and heart attacks in their late forties and early fifties, all of them smoked. Not saying it doesn't happen to non-smokers, but smoking could be a large factor.
My Brother was a heavy smoker. When he quit smoking he ate to compensate. He ate a lot of greasy salty foods. His body couldn't handle the wieght gain or all the additional fat. He's had five heart attacks starting sic months after quitting smoking. No matter what he does he can't get the weight off nor can he change his high stress job.
Both my paternal grandparents smoked well into their 80's Both died at the age of 100.
My parents quit smoking in the 60's right after the surgeon generals report was published. My mother's cancer appeared 15 years later.
I know a 36 year old woman who has never smoked. She's had cervical cancer and skin cancer and now...Breast cancer.
Many cancer research centers now support the link to dna and cancer. They don't like emphasizing it because... It could cut research money and to them research money is more important than a cure. A friend of mine was a researcher at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karmanos_Cancer_Institute. He said that due to the way cancer fails to die using various stimuli that would kill most all organic life it must be genetic. No he wasn't a doctor, just a researcher. Now he is a Doctor.
So I've personally LOVED this thread and thing that most of it is w/o shame or fear and has been for the benefit of all. 
