LOL! Show me the proof. Show me ONE death certificate that states that a person died from smoking!!!
I DARE YOU! You just believe what the highly paid professional anti's put out there.
YOU my friend, are SO easily swayed!!!
You miss the point; 3/4 of all the deaths in a given year are the deaths of non-smokers, when did anybody make a fuss over that?
Since the percentage of mortality among smokers pretty much equals the percentage of smokers in the population who die, one might just as easily classify the number of people who eat garlic, or snowboard or wear red garters.
Now, if the percentage of smokers who die could be shown to be higher than those non-smokers who die, an argument would have merit. But no figures exist by which one could make that determination.
The argument for premature death assumes that each of us is alloted a certain number of years and, if we don't make it, something intervened to put us down.
The prologue to Albert Camus' The Plague has a tale of a man so morbidly fearful that he takes to his bed and hires a manservant to attend to his needs and for entertainment the frightened soul counts peas from a full bowl to an empty one then switches bowls and continues until sleep overtakes him.
That was meant, I think, to say that a life unlived, is no life at all.