I don't smoke, never have, never would because at my "start smoking" years, my older sister was a nursing student, and in an attempt to
stop our parents from smoking, brought back some autopsy photos of smokers. Not to mention the smell...
My parents both quit, for two reasons. We kids hounded them, and my dad didn't want to pay a dollar a pack, when the price went up.
Yeah, it was THAT long ago.
Now, my reasoning that cigarettes don't "cause" cancer.
My grandfather was in his late teens when he went off to "fight the Hun" in WW1. He came back in 1918 hooked on it was either Camel or
Lucky Strikes (both unfiltered). He smoked a couple packs a day, til the early 70's, over 60 years, then quit cold turkey because he wasn't
going to pay no g** d*** 75 cents for a pack of g** d*** cigarettes. He did in 1991, almost 99 years old. He had a pace maker for over 10
years, walked every day except Sunday to the "beer joint" to have a Budweiser beer until he was 95. He died because his wife had passed
away almost 25 years before, all his sisters & brothers were gone, and our immediate family was it. Saw him Christmas, and looked really
good, walking and everything, but gone less than 30 days later. He willed himself to pass away. When he died, not one speck of cancer.
I am of the opinion, that cigarettes are not a direct cause of cancer, unless you are genetically disposed develop cancer.
Why anyone would want to smoke cigarettes is beyond me, but it's still a legal product in the USA, at least.
