Please link me to where I said that forum participants were saying that smoking was good for you. If I said that, it was incorrect. What is accurate is that people say it's not really all that bad for you. The denial this forum regarding smoking is amazing.
This whole thread, with all the faux posturing about the death of someone none of us knew (and I, for one, couldn't care less about)is, IMO, in extremely bad taste, loaded with basic logical fallicies (post hoc, ergo propter hoc) and dividing us on a petty issue which is just how politicians like it.
Life's a crapshoot. Some of us make the long run and some of us run the 220.