Smokers Burnt by Alzheimer’s Risk Later in Life, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital Study

EurekAlert! -- Heavy smoking in middle age appears to be associated with more than double the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia two decades later, according to a report posted online today that will be published in the February 28 print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.