May we see the statistics to back this up? Or is it just your opinion again?
Have you ever bought life insurance? What's one of the first questions they ask you? That's right - it's "DO YOU SMOKE?" In fact, they ask you if you're a smoker before they even ask you if you hang glide or if you're a private pilot. Haven't you ever wondered why that is? It's not because the insurance companies just want to get additional premiums from smokers. It's because smokers die at a younger age than their non-smoking friends. This may not occur in all cases, so smokers will always be able to cite examples of people like the old woman who smoked a pack a day from the time she was 20 and lived to be 102 with no health problems, but the insurance mortality tables are EXTREMELY accurate for the population as a whole. There is no argument here - except from smokers who can't face the reality that they are killing themselves.