Amen to that! I smoked for 35 years, got lung cancer in 1998, and was given less than a year to live. Thanks to God, good doctors and a special diet, I'm still here and cancer-free. But even if the cancer doesn't get you, smoking anything usually results in some form of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). If you like inhalers four times a day and oxygen at night and the inability to walk up a slight grade without huffing, just keep smoking -- first or secondhand.
Carolyn
You say "Amen to that!" then proceed to use your OWN "anecdotal evidence" to try to prove a point. Why is YOUR anecdotal evidence any more real and true than Ditka's or mine or many millions of others? It isn't.
But even if the cancer doesn't get you, smoking anything usually results in some form of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). If you like inhalers four times a day and oxygen at night and the inability to walk up a slight grade without huffing, just keep smoking -- first or secondhand./p>
I'm sorry about your personal problem, but your sweeping conclusions are just flat-out wrong, as sweeping conclusions usually are. Twice as many lifelong smokers never fall ill from one of the "smoking-related" illnesses, including COPD, as do. And as for "secondhand smoke," that's hysteria. But, even if everything they say about environmental tobacco smoke were true, it would still be a CHOICE to be exposed to it. Or don't you belive in private property rights, either?