Do you smoke?

[Donerail]

No. I enjoy not having cancer.

[Donerail]

A good majority of forumites are sensible people. This is good.

[Donerail]

No. I enjoy not having cancer.

This bothers me. Not all smokers get cancer. Even so, no matter how childish it sounds, I'd rather die at 50-something knowing I lived a fun life and smoked than live to be 90 and not have had any fun at all.

Because smoking is the key to living a fun life? I know you'll have loads of fun lugging around your oxygen tank and undergoing chemo.

[Donerail]

No. I enjoy not having cancer.

This bothers me. Not all smokers get cancer. Even so, no matter how childish it sounds, I'd rather die at 50-something knowing I lived a fun life and smoked than live to be 90 and not have had any fun at all.

Because smoking is the key to living a fun life? I know you'll have loads of fun lugging around your oxygen tank and undergoing chemo.

For some people, yes. Others drink coffee or use PCP or go skydiving. It isn't any of my business though. Different people have different tastes. You can get cancer just from going to the beach.

My tastes run towards not dying of small-cell lung cancer.

[Donerail]

You can develop or avoid lung cancer irregardless of smoking cigarettes.

This is true. Smoking however leads to a multifold increase in the likelihood of dying. And a picture of a man who I strongly disagree with is supposed to make me think what, exactly?

[Donerail]

You can develop or avoid lung cancer irregardless of smoking cigarettes.

This is true. Smoking however leads to a multifold increase in the likelihood of dying. And a picture of a man who I strongly disagree with is supposed to make me think what, exactly?

The picture serves no real purpose beyond my own amusement, rather similar to posting on this forum or smoking in that regard.

Your likelihood of dying has always been 100% and I don't foresee changes to your chances anytime soon. But, you do many things that put you at risk for death, I don't need to know you to know that and you are better off saying that smoking doesn't appeal to you so you abstain, instead of being prudish and moralistic about it. Do you drink sodas, eat fast food or use automobiles as transportation?

Dying of cancer does not appeal to me, so I abstain. Better? And to respond to the question, while I travel in automobiles and occasionally eat fast food, I do not drink soda. The comparison is ridiculous anyway: driving an automobile has little effect compared to smoking on your likelihood of cancer, and eating fast food does not cause people around you to be forced to consume it as well.

[Donerail]

No, and cigarette smoking should be banned in all public venues.

Yes, this.