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culpeper,

That's very unfortunate for you, I'm sorry.

However, whether you get sick from your smoking or not is undoubtedly genetic.

The oldest woman in Britain died the other day, aged 114 years. She gave up smoking 30 years ago (at about 84 years), just in case it damaged her health. Evidently, it didn't!

Everyone who lives, dies. Some go fast, some go slow. Whether you smoke, eat fatty food, live in a smogy city,etc. We will all die, sooner or later.

I'm offended that the Govt and other busy-bodies try to perpetuate the myth that non-smokers all live to a ripe old age and all pass quitely in their sleep. And, somehow, use this as a justification for engaging in compulsory lifestyle control.

If anything was ever a more perfect example of blatant fascism, state-sponsored control over the personal behaviours of its citizens would have to fit the bill perfectly. The fact that they've gotten away with it for so long is what amazes me.

[culpeper]

Yes...I guess you can say the same thing about drinking. I've seen people who drank heavily on a daily basis that were wrecked by the age of 50 and I've seen others that lived to 90 and were in quite good shape along the way. But the one thing about smoking is when you have a person ,and you know the type I'm talking about, that is coughing up all sorts of stuff out of their respiratory system and coughing uncontrollably and this goes on for years and the person continues smoking. I feel bad for people like that. Thats just slow death, alot of people don't understand how powerfully addictive nicotine is.