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No one is saying there are no bad effects from smoking tobacco. What we are saying is that they are long and they strike a minority of smokers.

And we're saying that in a Free republic it's nobody else's f***ing business what we do.

By the way, welcome to Free Republic. Your 30 day free trial at Homestead is up and your pictures don't show.

Are you really trying to say that there are no health risks involved in smoking??

Some of us have actually realized that life is full of risks, and haven't been paralyzed by fear over the fact.

Some of us choose quality over quantity and have decided that we would rather enjoy ourselves than live to be 110 years old, wringing our hands the entire way.

It's an attitude thing.

Are you really trying to say that there are no health risks involved in smoking??

That is not what SheLion is saying and you know it, but there is risk in everything we do..... leave us to take our choice of risk, and we will leave you to yours.

I don't think that any of us here on FR has said that there are no risks involved in smoking.
We have yet to be shown , by ANY study that has not been discredited, that second hand smoke (SHS or ETS) is harmful to anyone that doesn't have a prior health condition.
And THAT, along with the fact that governments all over the place are starting tax tobacco sky high, is what has most of us smokers here steamed.
The anti-smokers claim all these studies support the fact that SHS kills. Show me the proof.

Are you really trying to say that there are no health risks involved in smoking??

Wouldn't you like to know WHICH studies they analyzed and which they didn't before you make up your mind how valuable this report may be? Why, I'll lay odds they didn't include their OWN ill-named MONICA study which contradicts this press release. Tell you what, you give me the same amount of money these guys spent on this alleged "study," allow me to choose the research I want to include in my conclusions, let me pick figures out of the air the same way they do, and I'll give you a meta-analysis that PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that smoking is GOOD for you. And it will be just as "honest" and rational as this piece of garbage.

FYI, tho, smokers know smoking is a risk and that's all it is. It is not a death sentence; it does not guarantee a horrible early death; it is less important as a risk factor than other things in life and it's our choice whether or not we want to take that risk. Oh, yeah, one more thing: not smoking does not guarantee a long, happy, healthy life any more than smoking guarantees an early death.