Health Benefits of Smoking????

Guy smoking a cigarette

Who says smoking cigarettes is so bad … well, aside from the World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and every medical board and association on the face of the Earth?

But should smokers be fortunate enough to dodge all that cancer, heart disease, emphysema and the like, they will be uniquely protected — for reasons unexplained by science — against a handful of diseases and afflictions.

Call it a silver lining in their otherwise blackened lungs. Although long-term smokingis largely a ticket to early death, here are (gulp) five possible benefits from smoking. Breathe deep.

to read more, go to:    http://www.livescience.com/15115-5-health-benefits-smoking-disease.html