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While I sat on my front porch drinking a beer and having a smoke, I watched a neighbor jog out of the neighborhood. He led the 'healthiest' possible lifestyle. He got hit by a bus and died that night. I'm still alive. And happy.

I didn't say anyone shouldn't smoke. BUT YOU SHOULDN'T EAT TRANSFATS! just kidding.

I personally don't smoke or want to smoke, but hey, that's my personal decision. And for you it's your personal decision. I was just venting a little frustration on the flood of studies conducted nowadays that yield blindingly obvious results (albeit, due to it's specifics this wasn't the best example of one) and waste money and good minds for years at a time.

I'd bet money that you have never visited a chronic hospital's trach ward.

Have you ever even met a tracheotomy patient? Have you ever seen a person who has to breathe with 100% mechanical support?

You would not jest about this subject so readily after watching just a couple of patients being suctioned mechanically because their own bodies lack the capacity to move their lung secretions.

I read that 15% percent of all people are predisposed to certain types of COPD. That fraction of people who elect to smoke cigarettes are certainly headed for years of absolute misery because of that choice.

Maybe you are in that 15%, and maybe not, but your snide comments do no good for the people who were possibly just as arrogant concerning their prospects of ever becoming a COPDer. I'm certain that the family members of such victims would largely concur.

On the other hand, I'm going to be buying a really nice new car soon.I have my own personal relationship with a few COPDers. I take care of them, and I make a good living.