Smoking

I had to comment about this. According to the AP "Face Transplant Patient Smokes Again".

"The world's first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection. "

". . . which besides being bad in general for health is especially a problem after surgery because it impairs circulation to tissues and could raise the risk of rejection."

Why o' why o' why? (Heavy sigh)


My father was a laryngectomee. He had his voice box removed due to cancer from heavy smoking and also likely because years of working with hazardous fumes in the copper smelting field (The Andaconda Corp in Chuquicamata Chile, and at PASAR in the Philippines) He voluntered at Bay Pines Hospital and one of the things he did was to talk (via esophageal speech) to new laryngectomees and give them support. Unfortunately he occasionally would run into a laryngectomee who continued smoking, by placing the cigarette up to the stoma (hole) in the throat.

Again. Why o' why o' why?



Florida Laryngectomee Association (F L A)