[HN Gopher] Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-perform...
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       Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance
       training
        
       Author : mumblemumble
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-12-29 18:41 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
        
       | a0-prw wrote:
       | "The hemoglobin increases may be further enhanced with add-on
       | therapy of ethanol, which also appears to act in a dose-dependent
       | manner."
       | 
       | XD
        
       | PopAlongKid wrote:
       | Article is dated 2010.
       | 
       | Reading this part was amusing to me, for some people it might
       | make their heads explode (figuratively): "With this in mind,
       | smoking should be commenced at as young an age as is reasonably
       | possible. Children who have not yet developed a pincer grasp
       | might require modified cigarette holders, safety lighters or
       | both."
       | 
       | My own experience is mixed. In high school, I was a cross-country
       | runner (3 mile footrace). I was almost always just one or two
       | positions behind the top five runners on my team (only top five
       | score points in a meet). Many years later, I started to think
       | that maybe my daily exposure (one or two hours) to second-hand
       | cigarette smoke from one of my parents had something to do with
       | me not being faster. This study seems to indicate that might not
       | be true at all. And our fastest runner on the team (competitive
       | at the state level) was known to be an occasional cigarette
       | smoker. Go figure.
        
       | tedyoung wrote:
       | Y'all did read the important bit in the Abstract, right?
       | 
       | > if research results are selectively chosen, a review has the
       | potential to create a convincing argument for a faulty
       | hypothesis. Improper correlation or extrapolation of data can
       | result in dangerously flawed conclusions.
        
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