[usafsk]

What a nutcase! The thread is about smoking, so why should someone be forced to list other harmful activities. Do you understand that lung cancer risk is an order of magnitude higher for smokers than non-smokers?

And, yes, I hate the smell. And you have certainly been harmed by smoking, as have your family members. Pity, indeed.

Your self-concious, hyperbolic responses might indicate that you are aware of the truth at some level, but resistant to it. Happy puffing.

[CertainInalienableRights]

Do you understand that lung cancer risk is an order of magnitude higher for smokers than non-smokers

Do you understand that the chances of getting into a fatal car accident are much higher if you drive then if you walk?

Life is full of risks. Adults need to constantly make informed choices evaluating risks and rewards. No one's assessment is the same as to which risks are worth the rewards.

Not to speak for SheLion, but she has admitted that smoking is a risky activity. But so is driving, drinking, hangliding, and all sorts of legal activities that adults engage in.

What smokers need is better information on the risks with which to base their decisions. When people like the SG make assertions based on dubious science, and anti-smoking nazis in government jump on the same "science" to pass ever more restrictive laws - now affecting private property rights, then how much credence do you think smokers are going to give to all the previous data? It throws it all into question.

[Alter Kaker]

Lung cancer is just the tip of the iceberg. Smoking dramatically increases risks for a great many kinds of cancer, including breast, prostate and colon, dramatically increases the risks of heart disease, dramatically increases the risks of diabetes and stroke, etc. These aren't tenuous or hypothetical links, these are huge, clinically proven, scientifically inarguable risk factors that dwarf just about everything else that you can do to yourself to get you sick.

[SheLion]

Your self-concious, hyperbolic responses might indicate that you are aware of the truth at some level, but resistant to it. Happy puffing.

Why thank you!!!  Many of us FReepers sure do!  :)

It's legal doncha know.

[mysterio]

Happy puffing.

Hey, thanks.