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If a person is active and eats healthy, smoking isn't going to make them sicker then your fat couch potato. How do you account for smokers living well into their 80's and 90's?

That's just factually incorrect. Yes, some smokers do live to a ripe old age. But most don't, and the reason they don't is because smoking is either the biggest or second risk factor you can possibly give yourself for just about every disease in the book. That includes heart disease, most common cancers, Alzheimer's, stroke, etc. You're right, nutrition is an important component of overall health and proper nutrition reduces your risk of a variety of conditions. But in terms of negative risk, even a diet of Big Macs (not recomended!) comes in way below smoking.

Moderation is the key to everything we do in life.

How is voluntarily inhaling concentrated carcinogens in any way "moderate"?

I was a professional dancer for many years and I smoked. Smoking never shortened my breath and I could dance all night. I was in great physical shape and smoking was never an issue in my life.

And hopefully it won't become an issue in your life. But by smoking, you have gravely jeopardized your own health, vastly increasing your risk for decades to come for a wide variety of conditions. I do hope you have quit, but you are already at a much increased risk.

I appreciate your concern, but when my time is up, it won't matter one iota if I ever smoked or not. Smoking is my only vice and I LOVE it!

"the reason they don't is because smoking is either the biggest or second risk factor you can possibly give yourself for just about every disease in the book."

IF that is true, why is the country with the highest per capita smoking population also the country with the lowest per capita heart & lung disease incidence?