[mysterio]

I'm glad she is enjoying such a long life. However, it is in spite of cigarettes. For each of these cases, there are thousands who die in their 60s due to smoking.

As a smoker, I had a rolodex full of smokers in their 80s at my disposal to convince others (and mostly myself) that it wasn't so bad. In reality, I most likely would not have been one of those cases.

I support anyone's right to consume whatever substance they choose, including "illegal drugs." However, I urge anyone to find out and accept the risks of their drug of choice. If you smoke cigarettes, you have a large chance of dying of cancer or emphysema. If you are an overweight person, you are likely to experience heart disease. And as a drinker, the health of my heart and liver is likely to be compromised and I may also die early from that.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If you smoke cigarettes, you have a large chance of dying of cancer or emphysema.

Of course the smokers tell you that everyone has to die. Which, of course is true. But it's the process that gets me worried.

[Eric Blair 2084]

This is not breaking news. Lighting a leaf on fire and inhaling it into your lungs is not health food. It’s for adults.

But your characterization is way off base. You don’t have a large chance of dying of cancer if you do whatever. You have a significantly higher chance of dying early. There’s a difference.

[Hank Kerchief]

“For each of these cases, there are thousands who die in their 60s due to smoking.”

So you believe in global warming, as well, since it is exactly the same kind of pseudoscience that proves smoking causes disease as proves global warming. All bunk.

Hope you are happy with your government “high priests” of fear.

Hank

[TigersEye]

If you smoke cigarettes, you have a large chance of dying of cancer ...

7%. That is seven out of one hundred smokers gets lung cancer.