[Rapscallion]

Humans are far more resilient than the "victimization" lobby wants you to believe. After all, our ancestors were reared in smoke filled caves through ice ages....so stop this nonsense and mind your own business, please.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

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SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS HAVE DETERMINED THAT THEIR SALARIES DEPEND ON PLEASING POLITICIANS

[aft_lizard]

Dont be silly, I am a smoker but I realize the effects of what I am doing to my body. Its not the smoke itself its what the smoke carries with it that makes it dangerous over the long run. Those cavemen didnt add artificial chemical preservatives or flavor enhancements to the wood they burned, or directly inhale it.

[sagar]

"Humans are far more resilient than the "victimization" lobby wants you to believe. After all, our ancestors were reared in smoke filled caves through ice ages....so stop this nonsense and mind your own business, please."

Yeah, and the average lifespan was what? 28 years?

[Tokra]

Humans are far more resilient than the "victimization" lobby wants you to believe. After all, our ancestors were reared in smoke filled caves through ice ages....

Yeah - and died of old age at 35.

[HamiltonJay]

Yea, our ancestors were burning tobacco leaves to keep warm.... NOT.

Dried wood is not dried tobacco.

[ut1992]

Not only our ancestors. Have these people never watched "Going Tribal" on the travel channel. We watch it all the time and these folks live in smoke filled huts and grandpa sitting there smoking unfiltered cigarettes which I'm pretty sure are "lights".

I just have to keep thinking back to my own grandfather. He started smoking (non-filter cigarettes/cigars) when he was 13-14. He managed to live through WWII, 55 years of marriage, and made it to the ripe old age of 86.

I don't advocate youngin's start smoking, but geez I'm getting so sick of these people that pray to the "health god"

Have you ever heard of anyone dieing of good health?

[oldleft]

The cancer risk for cavemen was pretty low, considering they usually died around age 25.