[SheLion]

Not sure what you intended with this comment. However, let me point out that more than 80% of lung cancer is directly linked to smoking and the majority of premature heart disease is similarly linked. Consequently, it is safe to say that many smokers are not surviving to day.

You are full of it! I'm tired of you spewing your lies.

Smoking Does Not

Cause Lung Cancer

(According to WHO/CDC Data)*

By:  James P. Siepmann, MD

(excerpt) You don't see this type of information being reported, and we hear things like, "if you smoke you will die", but when we actually look at the data, lung cancer accounts for only 2% of the annual deaths worldwide and only 3% in the US.**

Failure of Lung Cancer Drug Stumps Researchers

So, NON smokers also get lung cancer? Aren't we constantly told that we will get lung cancer because we smoke? Sorry non-smokers. This one is for you.

[Lucky Dog]

You are full of it! I'm tired of you spewing your lies.

"Spewing" my lies??? Doesn't this wording strike you as a bit over the top, emotionally? I suggest you consult the CDC statistics rather just the one you quoted. There are dozens of studies that provide a definitive link between smoking and lung cancer as well as heart diease. Why do you think health insurance companies charge smokers more?

Sorry non-smokers. This one is for you.

I really don't care if you smoke. I care if you subject me or my loved ones to your second-hand smoke. I care if you make me pay through my taxes that support medicare for indigent smokers who have spent all their money on thier habit and its results. I care if you are responsible for taking up medical research money that could be going to cure some disease that the sufferer can not prevent through a simple act of will.

[bobdsmith]

I assume you are all for the legalisation of marijuana in public restaurants then. Can't have that pesky government telling the owners what can and cannot be smoked in their own establishment can we.