Women Who Smoke = STROKE

Women who smoke are more than twice as likely to have a stroke as their nonsmoking friends and colleagues, American Heart Association researchers note in a new study...

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Lesbian Actress Caused Mom's Stroke?

According to Actress Miriam Margolyes, star of "Harry Potter", she told of confessing to her mother that she was a lesbian, and it led to her mother having a severe stroke from which she never fully recovered.

Margolyes is openly lesbian and has been with her partner for 40 years. She described herself as "gay" and mentioned her relationships with women several times when she appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in September 2008.

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