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Women over age 65 who smoke are weaker and have poorer balance and poorer

performance on measures of integrated physical function than nonsmokers. This

decline in physical function was 50% to 100% as great as that associated with a five

year increase in age, and most measures worsened with increasing number of

pack-years of smoking.

JAMA, December 21, 1994, p. 1825

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"I'm going to focus on staying as healthy as possible. That means doing regular

exercises - but hiking, not running . . . . I don't feel any desire to drink or do coke.

Especially coke. I see people drinking wine when I'm out to dinner, and I think, Oh, one

glass. But it's better that I don't." Actress Melanie Griffith, early in her third pregnancy,

at about the time she was photographed smoking cigarettes.

In Style magazine, March 1996

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Well known climber Jim Bridwell was the first to climb El Capitan in Yosemite in one

day. "A notorious tobacco fiend, Bridwell has defended his habit by saying it trains his

lungs for altitude because it makes his every breath feel as if he's at 8000 meters."

Climbing magazine, September 15, 1998, p. 76

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The "record highest altitude for smoking" appears to be held by a Sherpa in Nepal

who continued to smoke on three visits to the South Col on Mt. Everest, elevation

8000 meters (over 26,000 feet).

from Filming the Impossible, Leo Dickinson, 1982

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