{"id":17240,"date":"2020-11-30T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:52:25","slug":"another-reason-to-quit-smoking-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17240","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to quit smoking: Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and causes 480,000 deaths every year according to the American Lung Association. Additionally, according to a World Health Organization\u2019s report \u201cTobacco and Dementia\u201d in 2014, smoking is a risk factor for dementia and current smokers have a 30 percent to 75 percent greater risk for developing dementia when compared to nonsmokers. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/entertainment_life\/health_fitness\/article_902c2cb2-13a5-11eb-972c-dfbe84b73f1f.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15587\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dreamstime_m_25486550dementia-alzheimers-memory-loss-caregivers.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and causes 480,000 deaths every year according to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}