@Rossum: "Only I heard that."

@Curves: Cheyenne Social Club is one of my top favorite movies. 40 years old and still wonderful. It's the chemistry between Stewart and Fonda that makes it for me.

@Curves: "Then there was my cousin, Jim. He sure was a fine figure of a man... but he fell to pieces when he got married. He got fat, his hair started fallin' out, his teeth went bad. The worse lookin' he got, the better lookin' she got. I mean, she weren't no vampire - nothing like that, at leastways nobody could…

@Ricorich196: pipetjockey responded with the "what". Here is an existing theory as to "why"...

@FritzLaurel: I have a healthy dose of skepticism with regard to big pharmaceutical companies pushing their latest patented medicines. But Bayer's U.S. patent on aspirin ran out in 1917. Aspirin is available from tons of manufacturers, dirt-cheap. I worry less that big pharma is pulling one over on us in this case.

@DON_BOT: I remember those Kodak cameras, but I think that the name was different. Instamatic was their line of box cameras using film in a drop-in plastic spool. Fast to load and shoot, but still had to be developed.

@mricyfire: I do that, too. I plan to buy an iPad, probably when the new crop is released in April. (Although I would have bought the sale one at TJMaxx if I had found one.)

@nerdlinger: It's true that this study looked at deaths versus incidence. It was a reexamination of data produced for a different study originally intended to examine aspirin's effect on vascular events. Also, as others have pointed out, the fact that somebody is taking low-dose aspirin for 20 years might bias the…

@crosis101: "Doc Sampson and the Spirit are '30's pulp"

@ampersands: yep

@HeavyMental: Better read the article again.

@Snertly: Nope. The trick is getting enough to capture the therapeutic benefits without triggering the undesirable side-effects, like stomach ulcers.

@philibuster: Others have pointed out that the mechanism is indeed known. I would like to argue with your basic premise that a mechanism must be known in order to consider a medicine effective.

@MacnairCorinthus: THIS!

@FritzLaurel: Aspirin does have a "blood thinning" effect by damaging blood platelets that would otherwise participate in clotting. But that's not what's going on here.

@pipetjockey: Yes!

@Barman1942: Unless you have contraindications, probably. But that's a question for your doctor, not a bunch of Gizzards.

@KyleW: No, the orange pill with L429 imprint is aspirin 325 MG.

@xmemphistox: It depends on your other risk factors. As the article says, aspirin has side-effects. Part of the study was to find out when the benefits outweigh the risks.

@phdearthworm: The Giz write-up may be sensationalistic, but the article in the Lancet is legit and the theory behind how this works is well-known.