[Eva]

I am sure that you are right about heredity being a factor in longevity, but I think that it is irresponsible to tell people that smoking won't effect you until you get older, anyway, so go ahead and smoke. That is not necessarily true.

I do have some relatives who continued to smoke right up until their eighties, and although they haven't died of lung cancer, they have suffered other ill effects, such as macro degeneration (that's not the right term, but its a form of progressive blindness which is often attributed to the decrease in circulation due to smoking).

Anyway, I wasn't trying to convince anyone to stop smoking, that's not my business. I was just pointing out the fallacy of a statement that Shelion made to another poster.

[SheLion]

Anyway, I wasn't trying to convince anyone to stop smoking, that's not my business. I was just pointing out the fallacy of a statement that Shelion made to another poster.

And my "fallacy" was?

[metesky]

I know you were just expressing your views on that one comment, Eva, and I don't speak for SheLion, but I think she was trying to say that lung cancers and other diseases associated with smoking are most often diseases that are associated with ageing, also.

Sometimes it's hard to be clear (let alone rational) from behind our keyboards.
:O)