One thing is for sure - prone to cancer or not - if you smoke it will
eventually kill you.  I had an elderly friend who was extremely healthy
at age 83 but smoked like a fiend.  Dead by age 88.  Throat cancer.  Had
he not smoked he most probably would still be around.

Joe Citelli

Joel Markwell wrote:
> 
> on 6/21/00 9:47 PM, Paul Braunbehrens at Bakalite@ba*.co* wrote:
> 
> > I find that a lot of people who work dive boats smoke...the ones with
> > a bit of sense do it while the divers are under water.  The fact is
> > that quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting almost any other
> > drug, including heroin.  I certainly don't condone it, but being an
> > ex-smoker myself, I can understand it.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I agree wholeheartedly. The woman I live with smokes and I can't get her to
> quit no matter how hard I try. I won't let her smoke around me (when she
> listens) and I am on her to quit. She has tried, but she's in a high-finance
> type job where there's tension every day and everyone around her smokes so
> it's tough. But I don't cut her any slack. You can bet I rented The Insider
> for her. She loved my Mom too and I hope at some point it sinks in enough
> for her to succeed in defeating about the most addictive drug there is.
> 
> I didn't want, by my original note, to start people naming names. I don't
> think it's constructive to do so, but people have to deal with real
> consequences of their actions. There are a lot of otherwise very good people
> out there who smoke. As I've already indicated, they shouldn't be demonized.
> 
> I look at smoking as a disease. I think it should be illegal and people who
> smoke ought to be given the help they need to quit, not ostracized . . .
> well, except in restaurants. <g>
> 
> People who don't want to quit? Well, waddaya gonna do, kill 'em?
> 
> The trend is towards the idea that smoking IS bad, even evil and insidious
> in its effect. But at some point smokers will be a tiny minority that will
> probably die out as the profit in smoking dies. I don't see anyone growing
> tobacco leaf in a closet with a growlight! A lot of smokers kid themselves
> into thinking that smoking is just another cause of cancer and you are
> either prone to cancer or you're not and there is some truth to that.
> But there's a larger truth, that smoking, in and of itself, kills more
> people than all other causes of accidental death combined, except the
> occasional holocaust.
> 
> Later,
> 
> JoeL

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