Me too. Hell I suppose its my right to smoke myself to death therefore dying sooner to the Fed's can keep the social security payola. The anti's would find themselves in a win/win situation. Then they could shift my social security to 19yo pregnant folks, and fund the senior citizen's with AIDS retirement home.
The funny thing is that no matter what the antis say, they are as bad as the government - the last thing on earth they want is for smokers to quit. They would all be on th unemployment line because they would lose their cushy jobs, and none of them actually have any marketable skills that a real employer would pay for.
I'm a little worse than you are. Not only am I smoking myself to death, I retired when I was 46. I read a real snotty column once by some tax-loving SOB that claimed people like me were removing ourselves from the workforce and thereby depriving our fellow citizens of much need tax dollars.
Screw 'em! :)