... We wonder who would be stupid enough to believe this, but we wonder even more about what kind of blind hate against smokers -- combined with an equal amount of intellectual stupidity -- can drive any media (no matter how much they get paid to divulge lies and misinformation on tobacco) to report garbage like this.

Answer: http://www.thirdage.com! And maybe, they are even stupid enough to publish it for free.

If the name "Third Age" is an indication of what is in store for us in the Third Millenium, things cannot seem gloomier. The Third Millenium may go down on the evolutionary scale the "the era when the brain disappeared from mammals" -- at least the ones that stand erect.

But there may be some truth in the study after all, at least as far as this writer is concerned: if my spouse would come up with any antismoking garbage whatsoever, it would be instant divorce! Who wants to be married to a dumb f*.., anyway?

Here is a link to the page reporting the news.