direct effects of bad things
Today I learned that the Silicon Valley school district where my mom teaches had a bunch of money invested with Lehman Brothers, so the school district is now about $25 million short. No amount of bailout money is going to bring that back unless Lehman Brothers unbankrupts itself first, maybe by discovering oil in its parking lot. Also, public schools have started endowing themselves, you can only assume so that they won't end up with no money when the economy tanks.
In other bad news, it does not surprise EI doctors when EIs exposed to cigarette smoke develop urinary tract infections. So that's the first 'normal' fairly immediate direct effect of inhaling secondhand smoke I've heard of, and I'm glad I didn't learn about it firsthand. Heart palpitations and 3-week bouts of laryngitis I've heard of, but there's nothing a 'normal' doctor can do about those.
In other bad news, it does not surprise EI doctors when EIs exposed to cigarette smoke develop urinary tract infections. So that's the first 'normal' fairly immediate direct effect of inhaling secondhand smoke I've heard of, and I'm glad I didn't learn about it firsthand. Heart palpitations and 3-week bouts of laryngitis I've heard of, but there's nothing a 'normal' doctor can do about those.
posted by missmolly at 7:54 PM
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Where did you learn about the smoke-UTI connection? Do you have a link for that?
It came straight from the grapevine, which can carry a surprising amount of misinformation, but I know the doctor who was unsurprised, and the vine was pretty short.
So it's totally anecdotal, and thus, unverifiable.
But interesting nonetheless.
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