21 Apr, 2026
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Non-smokers want smokers to butt out – beragampengetahuan – Beragampengetahuan

Dear Amy: Recently an out-of-state couple moved into our neighborhood, due to being transferred by their workplaces. These people are charming, but the problem is that they smoke. Their clothes, their house and their cars smell like cigarettes. The smell makes me nauseous. The state we live in is basically a non-smoking state. You cannot […]

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A message to Parkinson’s Disease researchers: Design a study to distinguish between these two competing explanations of the fact that the incidence of Parkinson’s is lower among smokers – Beragampengetahuan

After reading our recent post, “How to quit smoking, and a challenge to currently-standard individualistic theories in social science,” Gur Huberman writes: You may be aware that the incidence of Parkinson (PD) is lower in the smoking population than in the general population, and that negative relation is stronger for the heavier & longer duration […]