According to The Canadian Press, A review of 25 studies that pooled data from 1.2 million subjects from around the world, in which Canadian and Swiss researchers found that on average, tobacco users have a 44 per cent higher chance of developing the metabolic condition, which can lead to such complications as heart disease and kidney failure. Their study claims that smokers appear to have a significantly higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes compared to non-smokers - and that risk increases the more one lights up. The link between smoking and diabetes appeared strongest among heavy smokers (20 or more cigarettes daily), who had a 61 per cent increased risk of developing the disease compared with non-smokers; lighter smokers (less than 20 a day) had a 29 per cent higher risk. The association was weaker for former smokers (23 per cent increased risk) than for active smokers an analysis from numerous international studies suggests. Canadian and Swiss researchers found tobacco users have a 44 per cent higher chance of developing the metabolic condition. Then at the end of the artical, they say that; "Smoking is often associated with other unhealthy behaviours that can lead to diabetes, including physical inactivity, poor diet and high alcohol consumption. It might not be the smoking, per se, but those other mediating factors that are related to smoking and separately related to diabetes."

First, I am not some slob who is inactive, nor have poor diet, nor am I an alcoholic. Let me point out that I am a very active person, my diet is avarage, and I have a low alcohol consumption, and I do smoke.

But before we examine this study, let me deal with the topic of kidney failure. The greatest if not the most common cause of kidney failure comes from samenellia poisining. Other sources come from arsenic-contaminated groundwater or tainted water as what happened to people in WALKERTON, ONT. where people developed kidney failure and contributed directly to the death of some people. Then there is vegetables, fruit, diary products and meats which had been tainted or contaminated. The most samenellia poisining come from eating tainted hamberger, fried chicken wings from take-out outlets and resturants, or buying meat at a supermarket where the butcher may taint or contaminat the meat unknowningly. It is a wonder my kidney still functions, given the amount of samenellia poisining bouts I had from eating meat I was not aware had been tainted or contaminated, during the past sixty years of living. I had samenellia poisining bouts that bad that it had caused me to double up on the floor!

Now lets get to this so-called study that was conducted by these Canadian and Swiss researchers. I surfed the internet to Medical Web Sites to find out about developing this metabolic condition. At one Medical center, it stated that diabetes mostly comes on slowly and is more likely to be due to environmental poisoning than anything else.

I went to another medical site and it stated that metabolic condition is caused by glutomate synthetase deficiency, carbamyle phosphate, synthate deficiency or NAG, (NAG produce and distribute numerical, symbolic, statistical, visualisation and simulation software for the solution of problems in such areas as science).

Then I went to yet another Medical site and it stated that; Metabolic diseases are a group of more than one thousand inherited disorders in which there is genetic fault in metabolism (the body's chemistry).

I then went to many other Medical web sites, and they all said what I have already listed here. Given what I had found out, I only have one thing to say about that report from those Canadian and Swiss researchers who had reviewed 25 studies that pooled data from 1.2 million subjects from around the world. An honest assessment would read like this.. It might not be the smoking, per se, but other factors which could be separately related to diabetes.