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Praise God for your freedom from the dreaded stuff. Sorry about your Dad.

It is harder to quit smoking than quitting heroine. So the attitudes hereon are par for the course.

Having had allergies all my life and respiratory complications aplenty without smoking, I'm a bit extra sensitized to "clean" air. Though one wonders where left on earth that is unless it's Antarctica.

I find the attitudes defending the habit sad and unfortunate but predictable. If one is going to deliberately persist in throwing trash into one's lungs, then the ante is hugely high to defend it fiercely.

I think there's a measure of sadness and guilt about being victimized, enslaved to a crass little bunch of tobacco . . . and then anger at feeling guilty yielding fierce rationalization and defensiveness.

I haven't seen studies but I'd love to see a study comparing the percentages of REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER amongst smokers vs nonsmokers. I suspect strongly that there's a significant difference just judging from the psychodynamics of addiction and the seemingly markedly above average evidence of routine selfishness evident in the various common smoking behaviors.

I personally prefer a minimum of government interference in private lives. But government is there to help us conform our behavior to the good we already know is the right thing to do. It's not going to help much with a rebellious population that far outweighs the police force in numbers and fierceness to rebel in this or that given way or ways.

Part of me really does suspect that the globalist puppet masters have taken up where the greedy tobacco companies left off in aiding and abetting the enslavement toward decreasing the population toward their 500,000,000 worldwide goal. But, if so, it's one of their . . . devastating efforts but not equal to their war efforts . . . or is it. I wonder what a statistical comparison of those deaths would look like.

I mostly pontificate a bit on these threads to offer those torn between some encouragement to make the break and go for greater health and improved social comfort. But I certainly expect the fierce anti-forum-rules folks to personally assault me in response to every post.

I don't care if they assault me, that much. If my words cause anyone to pause a bit longer and eventually decide a bit sooner to stop the deadly habit, it will have been worth the assaults. And certainly so for their kids.

Life is pretty precious. I hate to see any of it going up in smoke and degraded because of smoke whether physiologically disease wise or "merely" irritation-wise in relationships.

Thanks for your understanding posts. They aren't overly common on such threads. The folks on our side tend to stay away because of the shrill hostility on the other side.