PISS #3: Alcohol Slows Rheumatoid Arthritis Progression
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Alcohol may take out your liver, but it may protect your joints in RA (and maybe other types of arthritis?)
Health chiefs attacked over ‘nanny state’ alcohol guide
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Political correctness gone wrong: interpreting random scientific data without common sense.
PISS #4: Does smoking protect against osteoarthritis?
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov|By Felson DT , et al.
It appears that smoking may protect against both the development as well as the progression of OA. So, should we take up therapeutic smoking? Of course not: “my knees are killing me” is just an expression, while smoking actually kills.