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In my younger days I'd put a couple of packs a day through my lungs. I put them down and that was that. If I want a smoke just for dernit I buy me a Swischer Sweet tip and have one. That usually suffices for a year or two the same with a drink. I have a bottle of wine I purchased from a Tennessee winery in February. I opened it in May and it's till almost full. Moderation and responsibility is the key to enjoyment. As for drinking LOL I used to put away quite a bit till I just got sick and tired of being sick.

I'm a non smoker by most definitions yet I am against the overzealous no smoking laws. We had a practice in the Navy of a designated smoking area and it wasn't outside in the cold but a lounge. Most smokers I know would agree with such an arrangement. I don't allow it in my home because of my wifes health issues {non smoking related}. My neighbors mother lived to be in her late 90's and smoked all her like as does my neighbor. No noted medical conditions from it. Her mom died of Alzheimer's actually. Some persons seem to be immune to the ill effects of it and those are the ones medical science needs to study.

It doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to see who is behind these Nanny Laws. It's largely the insurance corporations who own our elected leaders. Most I would say about 75% of all our laws now on the books are directly related to cost containment or loss prevention for Underwriters. They are the most powerful lobbying group in the nation. I find them {Pinsurance companies} as being practioneers of the third oldest profession known to man who hires the second oldest professionals to do to us what the oldest known profession does to all who pay if you can follow that line of though :>}