“Cigarettes and Alcohol, It can effect a Brother Nature”

The other day I saw a young Brother who came to see me because someone thought he was drinking too much and smoking too much. As it turns out he was smoking about a pack of cigarettes every 3 days and drinking about a case of beer on the week end not to mention the amount of beer he was consuming during the week. He had no history of drug abuse and otherwise was healthy. This is the profile of a lot of older and younger Brothers. Now let me tell you the real deal about this kind of behavior. There are a lot of older Brothers who have indulged in this kind of life style and still standing at 60 to talk about it. With this Brother we talked about Head and Neck Cancer, heart disease, Stroke, liver disease, Colon cancer, and mental illness, but I did not get his attention until I started talking about his “nature”. When I explained to him that these two drugs had a major effect on his “nature” I got his un- divided attention. Oh well that’s a Brother for you. I am Dr. Thaddeus John Bell closing the gap in health care.