I guess ciggies today are more powerful?
The article uses statistics.
Statistics are great talking point for people who want to make points—but they tell us nothing about individual outcomes for individual people.
Those outcomes usually fall on something like a normal curve.
My Mom and Dad smoked in the house, my mom had 7 children, we are all healthy. One sister was born on the small side, 7lbs 15 oz. The youngest had asthma at a young age. Mom and dad died of smoking related things, but they reached their late 70’s. As far as I am concerned, not much good happens after 79. Nursing home, alzheimers, watching people die... Nah, I’d rather live a shorter life with the hassle of do gooders... BTW, I smoked and quit years ago. It sure burned my britches though not allowing smoking in bars and clubs, or the BOWLING ALLEY? Come one, now people go to Injun casinos and smoke instead. Destroying white mens social clubs is what they did.
There was a scene on a TV show depicting the early ‘60s, Mad Men, I think, in which the OB-GYN’s waiting room, well stock with ashtrays, is filled with pregnant mommies puffing away. I remember my mom was watching the show, and I said, “Oh, that looks exaggerated.” And I still think it probably was exaggerated to some extent, but my mom was like, “No, no, that’s pretty much how it was.” Maybe fetuses were tougher in those days.