Watching someone smoke themselves to death is, to me, a big shrug.

As stupid as smoking seems to me, I agree. Obviously there are benefits to
smoking - it calms, energizes, suppresses appetite. Maybe more. And who is
anyone to say a informed adult cannot make the choice to add some enjoyment
to his good years at the expense of reducing the number of his bad years?

Helps the finances of the Social Security and Medicare programs, too.

the costs to try and save smokers lives is astronmical///////

anyone who smokes shouldnt be covered by health insurance for smoking releated illnesses.....

require the tobacco companies to pay for their ill health..

and smoking around any child should be proscuted as what it really is, child abuse