"bob haller" wrote in message
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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///////

there is a net savings due to early deaths. Most smokers drop dead pretty
quickly, not drag on and linger like I shall do.


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

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

give away smokes for free, and save Medicare and Social Security!!!!


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


not just around children - around me too! Stop forcing your wishes on me.
Same goes for a lot of things, not just smoking.