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I don't find smoking to be addictive - it's a habit I enjoy, just like reading, doing crosswords and gardening, all of which I do more often then I smoke.

You are twisting my words........you were speaking of 13 year olds....at that age of course I will discourage her, just like I discouraged my nieces at that age, and just like I will discourage her from drinking alcohol - it is something for adults, not children, to do.

I don't know that smoking will shorten my life, so I have no idea why you are claiming I know such a thing. Getting out of bed in the morning brings risks to my life, driving to the store brings risks to my life, eating certain things brings risk to my life.............being born guaranteed one thing - I will one day die.

The last few years of my mother-in-law's life was terribly difficult for both of her daughters and her son and me........and she was a lifetime non-smoker.....contrary to what you anti-smokers claim, non-smokers do die and not always in the opposite manner of smokers that you are attempting to imply.