{"id":2619,"date":"2003-01-18T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/more-reasons-to-smoke\/"},"modified":"2003-01-18T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:52:30","slug":"more-reasons-to-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/more-reasons-to-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"More reasons to smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to smoking being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/?Requestid=131\">good for children<\/a>, it now seems that it also improves your  memory.<br \/><cite><font size = -1>scientis?s in North Carolina will describe how they tested the [nicotine]patches on 11 senior men and women to counter deteriorating memories.After several weeks of treatment, the subjects experienced significant improvements in their abilities to make decisions quickly and recognize objects<\/font><\/cite> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/front\/RTGAM\/20030117\/wxnico0117\/Front\/homeBN\/breakingnews\" class = \"source\">The Globe and Mail<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is better to die of cancer than to lose your memory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to smoking being good for children, it now seems that it also improves your memory.scientis?s in North Carolina will describe how they tested the [nicotine]patches on 11 senior men and women to counter deteriorating memories.After several weeks of treatment, the subjects experienced significant improvements in their abilities to make decisions quickly and recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}