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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
The "choice" is lung damage, yellow teeth, gum disease, greatly increased risk of cancer, large financial drain, decreased bone density, decreased endurance, coughing like a fiend in the morning, and eventual emphysema, to name a few.
I'd really like to know what a person gets from smoking that justifies choosing the above.
(Not intended as a nag--I just can't fathom the choice.)
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Smoking is social, it's relaxing, and is a clutch device that can make you feel better and/or more comfortable in a situation. Yeah, so, you may die a little earlier. So what? You're just going to lose the senile-in-a-home wheelchair-bedpan-aches-and-pain stages of life. I may die when I'm 60, but I really don't want to live longer than that, anyway. I want to enjoy all of the pleasures that life offers, while I can.
"Large financial drain" - smoking isn't
that expensive, unless you do it constantly. $5 a week for me isn't going to break the bank. Even if someone is a two-pack-a-dayer, many spend more than that on lunch. The health risks? My uncle was a nutritional nut. He ran a mile a day on his lunch break. The constantly studied health charts and facts. He was 65 and looked twenty years younger. One day, he suddendly developed bladder cancer - had to have chemo, wear a bag, all of that wonderful shit that accompinies the removal of a vital organ. How is that better than a little coughing and wheezing...?