"If your lungs are coated with tar from smoking, they just don't become uncoated 25 years later. You still have large amounts of carcinogens in you, and they can cause cell damage at any time."
That's not what your co-horts at the quit smoking sites tell us. Are you with them or not? Could you folks please keep your stories straight.
As a child of the 60s, I always found it humorous that most of the hippies who were all for "ecology" were also smoking tobacco, weed, and Lord knows what else....LOL