My dad did three and a half packs of Camels a day and my mom finished off two packs of Pall Malls. We lived in a three room apartment. I must already have died and just don't know it.
How did your dad manage that? Did he smoke several at a time or what?
Most folks of sufficient training realize that statistical summaries are inferior at predicting individual outcomes. Nevertheless, the ODDS ARE VERY ACCURATE ESTIMATIONS of survival rates etc. etc. given proper parameters and criteria involved.
DENIAL BORN Glibness is a poor predictor of extended life, however.
"My dad did three and a half packs of Camels a day and my mom finished off two packs of Pall Malls. We lived in a three room apartment. I must already have died and just don't know it."
THERE WE HAVE IT!!!! Solid indisputable evidence that all these scientists know nothing at all. Go ahead, stand over your babies and smoke. You could even give em a shotgun!!
I'm in my 40's, when I look at picture albums from when we were growing up, EVERYBODY has a cigarette! There is one picture of my mom sitting next to the bassinet at my brothers christening, smoking a cigarette. We laugh about it. My aunt had kids right when the lamaze thing started, she said they would go to lamaze class and then a group of them would go out afterwards, drink martinis and have dinner, and yes they smoked. How we survived I'll never know.