Again, the first step toward freedom is to give up euphemism and say things the way they are (sort of like not allowing the abortion industry to call a baby a fetus).
Every post on this thread attacking the surgeon general's report should just be paraphrased thusly: "I prefer breathing toxic fumes to being a part of 13 years of my grandchildrens' lives."
The SG's report states cervical cancer is caused by smoking - cervical cancer is caused by a virus not smoking.
I have no problems with truth - I have a major problem with exagerations, particularly when they amount to lies in an effort to make something seem worse than it is.
And you yourself are doing it with your claim :"I prefer breathing toxic fumes to being a part of 13 years of my grandchildrens' lives."
Even the experts do not claim 13 years, and they are just numbers pulled out of thin air.
Plese let me knowabout some of your pleasurable habits, and I will be more than happy to show you haw they are detrimental to your health and that participating in them is selfish.
have a good day.
So if I say that I prefer dragging the toxic fumes of a legal product over some of the most sensitive tissues of my body to participating in 13 years of my grandchildren's life will you leave us smokers alone and quit trying to raise our taxes to pay for some cockeyed social agenda?
The misuse of the tobacco fine money is one of the biggest boondoggles and scandals of the past few years. Why don't you go fix that before you start trying to collect more money?
I notice that the anti-smoking crowd has finally gotten a little more honest, saying they can raise cigarette pack taxes to help balance their state budgets and fix their frikken potholes, and at the same time, force people to buy fewer cigarettes so they'll be "healthier" and live 13 years longer.
I find that to be low, thieving social engineering disguised as busybody concern.