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Quote by: gela  Yes we do know. It is fact. Prepare for some statistics: Source
Yes, there are 90 year olds who arn't affected by cigaretts at all. There are also 40 year olds who die because of cigaretts.
My grandfather died of lung cancer at age 57. He has a cigaret in his mouth in every picture I have of him. (Im not looking for sympathy, I never knew him to begin with, he died when I was about 3 - Im just countering your 'I know someone' argument)
Society is also against cannabis, yet you can find several pages supporting it.
Basicly, I don't care if you smoke. My friends smoke. Im not here to argue that no one can smoke.
Im here to say that it is unhealthy. If you know that its unhealthy and still choose to smoke, then good for you. But at least your making an educated decision. Its up to you to weigh up how good it makes you feel, and the possible effects it will have on you in twenty years. Its your life, therefore your choice.
However, doing it under the impression that it won't harm you is stupid. It most likely will. If you decide its not worth the risk then you shouldn't do it. |
I am not sure if looking at photos in a scrapbook is a sceintific way to determine why he died of cancer. But I can see how that would give you such an impression when you were also told (via hundreds of anti-smoking ads on TV) that cigarettes might cause cancer. The "power of suggestion" works in voodooism and it can work via those TV and other ads used to brainwash the population with. But what if in every photo he was wear a baseball cap, then would you have made that same determination, that baseball hats might cause cancer? I doubt you can answer yes to that question.
You can find webpages that "shoot down" the theories proposed by the anti-smoking crowd. I never said that you cannot. We even have a link here doing that debate that someone posted a year or so ago. What I said is that the medical industry has not provided one with evidence that smoking is not unhealthy - and the pro-smoking webpages are not viewed as being an "authorized authority" on the topic.
Now I know by your remarks that you do not mind if other people smoke, but you are a "rare individual" to do that if you also fear that smoking causes cancer. They are going to rope you in someday by telling you that 2nd hand smoke is a health hazard and then you will fear your friends and will bug them to stop smoking in your presense.
Meanwhile I must deal with stupid "sin taxes" which keep going up and with not being able to work at many kinds of jobs, and I cannot go out to eat some food and light one up after dinner. Unless I go stand out in the rain. Ever try to light one up in the rain? Forcing people to stand outside in the snow, rain, fog, is unhealthy for those people. They should make a law to prevent that kind of policy making.
Stess is the number one killer (but often recorded as a natural death).
Prescription drugs would be the number one preventable cause of death, not cigarettes, as so announced by the medical industry. They say it is because of errors in how the prescription was filled or because the person did not follow directions or warnings on the product.