[allmendream]

Maybe that is why GED students are more likely to be smokers while people with graduate degrees are not.

They understand the value of anecdotes against statistics.

I am not on a campaign for anything. I started out saying I would be against bans on smoking in public places IF smokers were not such litterbugs.

I actually defended our nation in the Armed Forces.

But I understand your defensiveness - what with smoking often causing impotence.

Smoking is not manly.

Dying early is not manly.

Major health problems are not manly.

Being impotent is not manly.

Being less educated is not manly.

Being below the poverty line is not manly.

Smokers are statistically more likely to die early, have major health problems, including impotence, have less education and less wealth.

Statistics.

[TigersEye]

...IF smokers were not such litterbugs.

Anecdotal nonsense.

[TigersEye]

...have major health problems,...

Last cold was about 37 years ago last case of the flu was about 27 years ago. Book larned people believe junk science and other modern superstition.