[SheLion]

Are you a smoker living in Minnesota?

No. I'm in Maine.

[ReadMyMind]

The really ironic thing about smoking is that it tends to kill people before they can rack up huge "late-in-life" health care costs, in effect saving society money. Phillip Morris tried this argument in Czechoslovakia and got their asses handed to them, not on the facts, but on the emotional reaction to the "horror" of pointing out the financial benefits of killing people's mommies.

I got this from an epidemiologist who is not a smoker and is not in favor of smoking. She admits it somewhat sheepishly.