It’s in your genes …. Still smoking? If you have not stopped or quit, you should. A typical smoker who refuses or fails to give up has a roughly 15% risk of lung cancer over their lifetime. But with two copies of the genetic variant, this rises to 23%.
In contrast, someone who has smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their entire life has a less-than-1% chance of developing the disease. I gave them up about twelve years ago, and the other day I happened to notice a pack of Marlboro’s was $4.80 per pack. Unbelievable, someone owes me about $23,000.00!
Smoking will kill ya …. No joke.
A woman goes into a drugstore and walks up to the pharmasict and says, “I need something to give to my husband to kill him. Cyanide, some kind of poison.” The druggust is flabbergasted, he cannot believe that she actually has said this to him.
“Listen lady, I cannot give you something to kill your husband. First it is illegal, second, I would lose my job, third, my good standing in the community would be jeapordized. I just cannot do it.”
So she looks at him and says, “Look at these, and hands him a handful of photographs of the druggists’ wife and her husband in bed together at the local motel.”
He looks at them for a while, and then looks up and says … “Oh, this is different, I didn’t know that you had a prescription.”
Young adults can discern another person’s attitude toward sexual relationships just by looking at his or her face, according to a British study of 700 heterosexual volunteers. The Durham University-led study also found that men generally prefer women who they believe are open to short-term sexual relationships, while women generally prefer men who they perceive to be potentially suitable for a long-term relationship.
The study participants looked at photographs of faces of members of the opposite sex (all in their early 20s) and were asked to judge their attractiveness and sexual attitudes. Their judgments were compared with the actual attitudes and behaviors of the people in the photos.
As it turned out, 72 percent of the 153 volunteers in the first study sample correctly identified sexual attitudes from photos more than 50 percent of the time. Out of curiosity, I took several pictures of myself, showed them to the wife, explained the survey or test to her, she agreed to participate.
Handing the pictures to her at the kitchen table, she quickly went thru the stack, studying each one and repeating out loud … “NO .. NO… NO … NO-WAY! DEFINITELY NOT.”
Oh well, so much for science … Back to the drawing board.
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