[SheLion]

Which is pretty sobering stuff if you are a smoker, for instance around age 40 a male smoker's chances of death over the next decade from Lung Colon or Prostate cancer rise to around 700% of those of a non-smoker and remain there well inotm their 70s.

Well, men get those two diseases if they smoke or DON'T smoke.

I enjoy smoking And will continue to do so until the Lord calls me home.  Personally, at that time, I don't think the Lord will care if I smoked or not When it's my time to go, I will go.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"I enjoy smoking And will continue to do so until the Lord calls me home. Personally, at that time, I don't think the Lord will care if I smoked or not When it's my time to go, I will go."

Well, smoking is not only pleasant, it's also a quite altruistic act - smokers die younger enough that on the average they consume less than they have paid into SS and Medicare.

We don't talk much about this fact in the US, but in parts of Western Europe (where public support of the sick and elderly is even higher than here) they are quite explicit abut this fact in debates over attempts to reduce smoking.