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"I really don't care if you smoke."

It sure sounds like you do!

"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."

News flash for ya...I am not making you pay jackcrap for medicare for me, nor am I indigent, nor I have I spent all my money on "my habit" or its results, or the lack thereof. I am extremely healthy, haven't been to a Doctor in 18 years. That is probably why I am healthy. Also, I disregard all this bogus junk science.

"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."

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING UP MEDICAL RESEARCH MONEY...that honor belongs to the money grubbers that are making more money on felonious "studies" instead of working on real cures for real diseases. Don't you know more mnoney can be made if people stay sick?

FYI: My cousin died of cancer 3 years ago at 53 years old. Her death bed words to her 24 year old daughter were: I never smoked, I never drank, I never did drugs, I never slept with anyone but your father, and here I am. Be safe, be happy, enjoy your life. (BTW, no one in her home smoked, & she was rarely around anyone that did.)
My aunt died at 44 years old of lung cancer. She, nor anyone in her family smoked. She was an RN in ICU. If she was not at home, she was at work or at church where she was very active.

FYI: My cousin died of cancer 3 years ago at 53 years old. Her death bed words to her 24 year old daughter were: I never smoked, I never drank, I never did drugs, I never slept with anyone but your father, and here I am. Be safe, be happy, enjoy your life. (BTW, no one in her home smoked, & she was rarely around anyone that did.) My aunt died at 44 years old of lung cancer. She, nor anyone in her family smoked. She was an RN in ICU. If she was not at home, she was at work or at church where she was very active.

NO one knows the date of our death except our maker. When it's my time to go, it won't matter one iota if I ever smoked or not.

Here's a good one! heh!

...I am not making you pay jackcrap for medicare for me, nor am I indigent, nor I have I spent all my money on "my habit" or its results...I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING UP MEDICAL RESEARCH MONEY...

Perhaps you, personally, aren't yet, nor, if you are lucky, ever will... However, a number of your fellow smokers are doing so.

FYI: My cousin died of cancer 3 years ago at 53 years old. Her death bed words to her 24 year old daughter were: I never smoked,... My aunt died at 44 years old of lung cancer. She, nor anyone in her family smoked...

I am sorry for your loss. Unfortunately, I have lost several aunts, uncles and cousins to cancer, all of whom smoked. Your point, which appears to be that smoking is not tied to cancer, is not made statistically because you can cite a few exceptions. I suggest you consult the CDC statistics in this area and you will find a far different picture.