Thank You For Smoking

Without government-funded healthcare this would not be an issue.

You should be free to harm yourself with bad habits. Provide the information, and let people choose. Personally, I always thought it was awful, never started. Both my parent smoked, and both died of fatal lung disease, living on oxygen in later years, but not cancer. My mother stopped smoking at about age 40, my father was able to cut back, but could never shake it entirely until he was pretty sick, needed oxygen. I'm glad I never started. Sadly, my sister smoked/smokes (not entirely sure, she doesn't do it around me), as did her deceased husband, and now her son. But, it's their choice.

fta "The fanatics of Action on Smoking and Health don’t mention that corpulence now kills more than the cancer stick." and diabetes increase because of fatter people?

#3. Jackie Gleason smoked and was overweight. So was Rush. And Winston Churchill. I used to smoke pipes. But gave it up when I set myself on fire while driving. Statistics are misleading. For instances, the average person has one testicle and one breast. I have Type II diabetes. Giving up smoking was easy. So was giving up alcohol. Giving up orange juice was pure Hades.

In my 69 years on this planet, I have never smoked a cigarette. I do, however, smoke my beloved (tobacco) pipe every day. I’ve not had any deleterious health effects. Little known fact: the original Surgeon General’s report (1964) noted pipe smokers live as long as non-smokers. Of course, on average.

One mouse is no mice.

Smoking stinks and so do smokers, but if they keep it to themselves, it's their own business what they do to their own bodies.

so, smoking is not good for you. Common sense tells us that breathing and smoke a bunch of times a day into her lungs is probably not a good thing. But my hi is telling me that the health risks are really really overblown. We should be surprised by how healthy long time smokers are. Why don't they all get sick and die when they're like 40? Yes, they use statistics, and yes smokers have higher incidences of lung cancer, heart disease, strokes… but it is way, way over blown. And yes, life is 100% fatal

Does anyone remember how crazy the campaign against second hand smoke made Rush? He had the stats to back up his argument. Also, whatever happened to al those billions the cigarette manufacturers had to pay the government? Wasn’t that money supposed to save health care?

I believe smoking is relaxing and thus better for you than stressing out over everything, as so many seem to do these day. I smoked for 50 years and never had an problem, no cough, no sore throat, no anything, until the woke nazis came up with "Fire-Safe Cigarettes." They have chemicals in them to make them go out, supposedly, so they are more "safe." Those chemicals, unfortunately, caused sore throat, coughing, hacking up terrible stuff, etc. Marlboros became unsmokable, with a horrible chemical taste. The whole "second-hand" smoke scam was much like the covid-19 scam. The anti-smoking crusaders traveling around the country were funded by the big pharma companies. Most of the Tobacco Settlement billions went to the politicians favorite causes, and none or little to the actual smokers. I finally quit and now use e-cigarettes, so naturally the politicians are going to "save the children" by raising the taxes on them. How me paying state tax, a vape tax, and an "adult signature fee" all adding up to about 35% on every purchase saves any children is unknown to me. They get my tax money, I get to pay for saving children, and kids smoke cigarettes again rather than pay the increased taxes.

What a lovely article, how refreshing! I am 61 years old, I have smoked since I was 18. I have been working out since I was 23, free weights and cardio. I still work out 6 days a week. I eat healthy, and--praise God--take NO medication nor have I had any surgeries. I wear a size 2 or 4, my blood pressure is perfect and I have no health issues. Part of the reason I never quit, only part, is that I discovered "they" are lying about the health risks of smoking, lying even more about the effects of second hand smoke which are non-existent. Listen to me, I have read the studies, there's no there there. Now I see what they are doing with the Covid fear porn. The anit-smoking campaign was just part of the conditioning. Turn people against each other, demonize a group of people and you can do whatever you want in the name of health. Do you REALLY think the government gives a DAM about your health? If smoking killed us that effectively they would be encouraging it. Gotta run, cardio, chest and triceps this morning--including 160 push-ups. I know, I am a pathetic smoker, falling apart at the tender age of 61.